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PaCT: Books and Exhibitions

July 11, 2022

PaCT documents a 23 year, two-part journey. In 1996 at the age of 23, Peter and Dylan Kuhn set out to hike the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. Burned out, injured, and broke after 90 days and 1,750 miles they quit in Oregon with a pact to return for the remaining 900 miles when they were twice as old. In 2019 they reconvened at 46 to reflect on life’s journey, and race increasingly threatening storms towards Canada.

CALLING ALL AGENTS: is FAIR 20202021

August 25, 2021

The Institute of Sociometry announces is FAIR 20202021 at the Globeville EPICenter in Denver, Colorado on 11/11 – 11/14. The is FAIR is a pseudo-science fair for free-thinking adults. Submission is open to all to submit a free-standing table-top tri-fold display addressing the eternal theme of “individuals and their relationship to groups”.

Institute of Sociometry | Art: Portfolio of Exhibitions & Happenings

May 27, 2021

In addition to making books and zines we also exhibit our work in DIY spaces, galleries, and museums under the name Institute of Sociometry. (is PRESS is the press of the Institute of Sociometry.)

Leftist Leaflets in Little Libraries

January 14, 2021

This is a free online version of our best selling zine Leftist Leaflets in Little Free Libraries #1.

Leftist Leaflets in Little Libraries or LLiLL documents the distro of leftist zines on Socialism, Feminism, Critical Theory, Race, and Punk to Little Free Libraries in bourgeois areas of Denver, Colorado! Originally Published Summer of 20l7. N© / is PRESS 2020.

LLiLL, Leftist Leaflets in Little Libraries exhibition – virtual tour

October 25, 2020

is inviting you all on a little virtual tour of the Institute of Sociometry installation “LLiLL, Leftist Leaflets in Little Free Libraries” by is Agents Peter Miles Bergman and Heather Link Bergman that is part of the exhibition “Citizenship: A Practice of Society” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, curated by Zoe Larkins.

is at Citizenship: A Practice of Society | MCA Denver 10/2-2/14

October 2, 2020

The Institute of Sociometry (which gives us the “is” acronym in is PRESS) in this case is PRESS partners Heather Link Bergman & Peter Miles Bergman are excited and honored to have a large zine-themed installation in the fall MCA Denver exhibition Citizenship: A Practice of Society curated by Zoe Larkins. is PRESS also designed, co-published, and letterpress printed the covers of the exhibition catalog. The exhibition runs from October 2nd through February 14th with timed entry.

Raw Fury Now Online!

October 1, 2020

Raw Fury is an ongoing collaboration between is PRESS and Flatlands Press in Chicago. Raw Fury is a local scene ‘zine, and a ridiculously fancy art book that focuses on contemporary urban art from or connected to Chicago and Denver. Issues 1-5 – mostly sold out – are now available for free online! ¶ Each 7.5″ square 60 page issue has screenprint and letterpress covers, mixed paper stocks, and risograph gallery pages and posters (posters are not show on these digital versions.)

QUARANZINE FEST 2020 – WRAP UP + CLASSES & TALKS!

April 19, 2020

Quaranzine Fest was a (cough…) viral concept to connect zine makers and patrons in this turbulent time of social distancing. On April 4th and 5th the hashtag #quaranzinefest was used over 2,200 times on instagram! (At the time of this posting it’s still going with 2,800 posts.) Zine makers from around the world posted, liked, commented, chatted, DM’d, and even BOUGHT ZINES!

is PRESS Preflight & Print Booklet tutorials – 2020

April 4, 2020

This is a step by step with resources for any intermediate level zine makers needing the know how to preflight their zines manually or with InDesign’s preflight features and create a PDF that is imposed for saddle stitch.

Chicago Art Book Fair 2019 – Wrap Up

November 15, 2019

is PRESS tabled with our sister imprint Flatlands Press at the 3rd annual Chicago Art Book Fair November 15th – 17th 2019. CABF 2017 was our first Art Book Fair after innumerable zine fests; and, we’ve tabled every year since, growing with it as we all learned to crawl, stand, and walk! Chicago is and will always be our home-away-from-home fair!

2018 & 2019 Art Book Fair and Zine Fest Reviews!

November 14, 2019

Our subjective and cumulative reviews of: Chicago Art Book Fair, Detroit Art Book Fair, Vancouver Art Book Fair, DiNk Denver, Chicago Zine Fest, Denver Zine Fest, ABQ Zine Fest, Pikes Peak Zine Fest, Miami Zine Fair, from most recently attended to last attended.

is PRESS – No Longer Homeless!

November 1, 2019

After 18 months of DIY architectural drawings, trips to city hall, trench digging, wrangling trades people, our buddy Jim the genius carpenter living in out driveway all winter with his bulldog, painting, playing floor plan Tetris with 500 lb. equipment, and scrubbing drywall dust encrusted grease of our new 10×15 C&P letterpress, is PRESS is FINALLY in a functional space!