Triple Canopy is a New York-based "magazine" and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Issues of the "magazine" are published online over the course of several months. Each issue focuses on specific questions and areas of concern, and features works of art and literature, conversations, performances, exhibitions, and books. Triple Canopy is dedicated to “sustained inquiry, careful reading and viewing, resisting and expanding the present.” In “The Binder and the Server,” a memoir-manifesto published in 2010, the editors proclaimed their intention to “slow down the internet”; subsequently, reflecting on the erosion of the line between “online” and “offline,” they shifted to “slow down the world.” Triple Canopy is certified by

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. Triple Canopy’s archive was acquired by the Fales Library and Special Collection at New York University.

Overview

Founded as an editorial collective in 2007, Triple Canopy currently consists of a staff of editors, writers, artists, researchers, designers, and web developers based in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Mexico City, and Berlin. Triple Canopy’s digital platform acts as the hub for publishing activities that occur online, in print, and as events and exhibitions. From the design of the platform to the editing of essays and artworks, Triple Canopy is meant to foster attentive reading, prolonged engagements—in opposition to the incessant distraction that characterizes the attention economy. Due to the presentation of substantive, carefully edited material that is designed to be read and viewed online, and makes use of the characteristics of the browser, Triple Canopy's work has been referred to as "the sort of stuff people say is not happening on the internet." Triple Canopy draws on the legacy of avant-garde print magazines and journals, but also incorporates the history of new media publications such as the magazine-in-a-box Aspen, the audio cassette magazine

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, and the experimental publication Blast. The central form for Triple Canopy’s publishing activities is the magazine issue. Issues may include digital works of art and literature, public conversations, books, editions, performances, and exhibitions. New issues are devoted to the collaborative production of bodies of knowledge around specific questions and concerns. Issues are published over the course of several months, often concurrently, at a rate of approximately three per year. As of December 2018, Triple Canopy has published twenty-five issues of the magazine and twelve books, and has worked with more than nine hundred contributors. Triple Canopy has collectively authored works that have been presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the

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, MoMA PS1, MCA Denver, and Kunsthalle Wien, among other institutions. Triple Canopy creates open-source publishing systems that enable the magazine to elucidate relationships between activities that occur on the web, in print, and in person. Triple Canopy has organized numerous public programs and participated in residencies in New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Chicago, Tucson, Paris, Berlin, Sarajevo, Turin, and elsewhere. The magazine regularly organizes the Publication Intensive, a free two-week program in the history and contemporary practice of publication. Triple Canopy’s office and venue is in Manhattan, but the magazine maintains an active presence in Berlin and Los Angeles. Until 2017, Triple Canopy shared a space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with film and electronic art venue Light Industry and open-source educational program The Public School New York. Triple Canopy's venue regularly hosts performances, lectures, screenings, talks, and other public events.

Critical response

'' The New York Times'' called Triple Canopy “a multitasking brain trust of a nonprofit that publishes an extremely smart Internet magazine”; in another article, in 2017, the paper declared that Triple Canopy “broke the mold of traditional Web design; instead of scrolling down, readers page left and right, which gives the work a framed look.… Their concept of ‘slowing down the Internet’ has come to seem prescient.” '' The New Yorker''s Sasha Frere-Jones commented that "Triple Canopy may be a journal of high intellectual resolution, but it is also very easy to read on a computer screen." In a '' Financial Times'' article naming the five best art magazines, '' frieze'' editorial director Jennifer Higgie wrote that Triple Canopy “lets you watch videos, is not limited by word or page length, and can be read simultaneously by people anywhere in the world. In other words, it’s the future." In a note about

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’s essay on the history of debt in issue 10, '' Bookforum'' praised the magazine for integrating the immersion of print with the immediacy of the internet. In 2012, Triple Canopy received the Art Journal Award for the best work to have appeared in Art Journal, published by the College Art Association, in the previous year (Triple Canopy’s contribution was “The Binder and the Server,” essay on the image and value of labor in contemporary publishing practices).

Print publications

* Triple Canopy, ed., ''Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 1'' (2012) *

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, David Horvitz, and Ariana Reines, ''Miscellaneous Uncatalogued Material'' (2012) * Triple Canopy, ''The Binder and the Server'' (2012) * Triple Canopy, ed., ''Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 2'' (2012) * Triple Canopy, ed., ''Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism'' (2013; second printing, 2015) * Triple Canopy, ed., ''Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 3'' (2014) * K.D., ''Headless'' (2015; ebook, 2016) * Triple Canopy, ed., ''Speculations (“The future is ______”) ''(2015) * Triple Canopy and Ralph Lemon, eds., ''On Value'' (2015) *

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, ''Not Dead But Sleeping'' (2016; ebook, 2015) * Sowon Kwon, ''S as in Samsam'' (2017) * Ulf Stolterfoht with Peter Dittmer, translated by Shane Anderson with Megan Ewing, ''The Amme Talks'' (2017) *

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with Jennifer Krasinski, ''Andy Warhol: The Series'' (2017)

List of notable contributors

* Fatima Al Qadiri *

* Cory Arcangel *

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* Mel Bochner * Ted Chiang * Joshua Cohen (writer) * Gabriella Coleman * Samuel R. Delany * Renee Gladman *

Rivka Galchen Rivka Galchen (born April 19, 1976) is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, ''Atmospheric Disturbances'', was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is the author of five books and a co ...

* Lucy Ives *

Steffani Jemison Steffani Jemison (born 1981) is an American artist based in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been shown at Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, and other US and international venues. Personal life Jemison was born in Berkeley, Cal ...

Jon Kessler Jon Kessler (born 1957, Yonkers, New York, Yonkers) is an Visual arts of the United States, American artist. He began college at State University of New York at Purchase, SUNY Purchase from 1974—78 but left after two years to travel in Africa, E ...

* Katie Kitamura * Josh Kline * Wayne Koestenbaum * Hari Kunzru * Ralph Lemon * David Levine * Glenn Ligon *

Jill Magid Jill Magid (born 1973) is an American conceptual artist, writer, and filmmaker. Magid’s performance-based practice "interrogates structures of power on an intimate level, exploring the emotional, philosophical, and legal tensions that exist b ...

* Tom McCarthy * Fred Moten * Trevor Paglen *

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Kameelah Janan Rasheed Kameelah Janan Rasheed (born 1985) is an American writer, educator, and artist from East Palo Alto, California. She is 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Artsknown for her work in installations, book arts, immersive text-based installations, large-sca ...

* Ariana Reines * Namwali Serpell * Bob Stein (computer pioneer) *

Martine Syms Martine Syms (born 1988) is an American artist based in Los Angeles who works in publishing, video, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on identity and the portrayal of the self in relation to themes such as feminism and Black cult ...

Astra Taylor Astra Taylor (born September 30, 1979) is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. She is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation for her work on challenging predatory practices around debt. Life Born in Winni ...

* Lynne Tillman * Mónica de la Torre * Constance DeJong

References

External links

''Triple Canopy''

The State of Inauthenticity
- an analysis of the International Necronautical Society from Issue 1
Star Wars: A New Heap
- John Powers' acclaimed essay from Issue 4
The Used Future
- Kevin Kelly's review of Star Wars: A New Heap
To Have Is to Owe
-

's essay on the history of debt from Issue 10
Notes in Time
- a digital reanimation of Nancy Spero's landmark work from Issue 10
Digitizing Art Online with Triple Canopy
- an analysis of the digitized "Notes in Time"
We Are All Anonymous
- a conversation which brought together Gabriella Coleman (author of essay
"Our Weirdness Is Free,"
from Issue 15), David Auerbach (author of the essay
"Anonymity as Culture: Treatise,"
from Issue 15) and lawyer James Grimmelmann
International Art English
- Alix Rule and David Levine's essay on the rise of the art-world press release from Issue 16
I'd Rather Talk About the Post-part
- an essay about the value of artworks and of the labor and bodies that make them by Ralph Lemon
High Treason
- a video game against official nationalism by Juan Caloca for Issue 22
Triptych: Texas Pool Party
- Namwali Serpell's three-part fiction on the 2015 McKinney, Texas, pool party incident for Issue 23
"Triple Canopy: 'Slowing Down the Internet'"
Sasha Frere-Jones,'' The New Yorker'', 17 January 2012
"New York literary magazines – start spreading the news"
Hermione Hoby, '' The Observer'', 5 January 2013
"Critics and Online Outlets Leading the Vanguard in Arts Writing"
Mary Louise Schumacher, ''

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