A few months after his visit to my studio, Goldsmith staged "Printing Out the Internet" at Labor Gallery in Mexico City. We spoke about how to incorporate Library of the Printed Web into his show but ultimately it was a singular, celebratory, poetic act — and dumb, in the best Goldsmith way: an open call to print the internet and send it to the gallery. It resulted in 20,000 submissions, and Library of the Printed Web was there: I sent libraryoftheprintedweb.tumblr.com as 150 printed pages, bound by a single metal clip.
At the same time, I was thinking about how to create a venue for new web-to-print work. Seth Siegelaub's death in June was on my mind, and I wanted to create an homage to his gallery-less curatorial projects, like The Xerox Book (Siegelaub, 1968) and January 5–31 (Siegelaub, 1969). Considering the many friends, new and old, who had contributed work to Library of the Printed Web, I thought — like Siegelaub, why not offer a fixed number of pages to some of these artists and create a publication-based group show of new work? Access to these artists would be easy, I could use print-on-demand and I would control distribution.