Day After Reading Issue N°1 – San Francisco
Memory Newspaper
General informations
Technical informations
Concept
The editorial project “The day after reading” is created by Ludovic Balland, as part of the “All Possible Futures” exhibition running January 14 to February 13 2014 at SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco, California. This project deals with how people remember information perceived in the daily media and aims to find out about personal reading habits. It illustrates remembered “leftovers” of the everyday consume of newspapers and visualises individual processing of published, written “facts”. One San Francisco personality was interviewed on each of the first seven days of the exhibition.
Seven people were asked about their impressions and what details they remember from all of the news they had read the day before. The memories of the people portrayed were recorded and directly transcribed. The transcript served as the material to design and typeset one individual newspaper page to be printed on a large-scale format the very same day. Each of these pages were put on display at the exhibition venue the next morning, creating a series of seven different pages, which evolved during a oneweek period.
This eight-page newspaper has been printed and distributed in San Francisco. Each page presents one personal view of San Francisco readers and illustrates their perception of everyday media. The layout structure in five parts allows for the comparison of memories about stories, visual details, and advertisements, as well as individual reading practices and personal contexts. A documentation about readers.
Read the first issue online and order your own hard copy: www.dar-news.com
