After an intensive six-month redesign, Esopus has just relaunched its website to the public.
Taking the long-lost art of mechanical paste-up as its graphic point of departure, the site was designed to evoke the tactility and materiality of Esopus, the twice-yearly arts journal published by the non-profit Esopus Foundation Ltd. But as “analog” as esopusmag.com may appear in its employment of graph paper, cutting boards, mechanical pencils, and X-Acto knives as visual elements, it is actually powered by state-of-the-art web architecture. Built with Cake PHP and jQuery, the site also includes a store that utilizes AMDP, a customized content-management system that was designed and developed by Esopus and a number of other arts publications with the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
The Esopus website hosts a range of new features, including a granular search function for all site content; custom-built streaming audio and video players, a facsimile viewer for content from sold-out issues; expanded “news” and “about” sections; a where-to-find page searchable by ZIP code, state, and country; and a content page where visitors can parse the entire Esopus archive by creative discipline, series title, issue number, or contributors’ names.
The site was designed by Esopus in collaboration with Supercosm, the web consulting company that has also developed sites for the Dia Art Foundation, Electronic Arts Intermix, Sculpture Center, and the artist Matthew Barney.
Each week, Esopus will stream a full-length version of one of more than 200 tracks that have appeared on its 19 themed audio compilations.
Our new issue will launch at BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn Heights on Thursday, May 2nd, from 7 to 9pm.
Musicians reference customer-service experiences in 12 brand-new songs.
Esopus 17 and Esopus 18 will be available in a select number of Anthropologie stores starting at the end of February.
The Esopus Foundation has just received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the publication of Esopus.
Esopus will launch two brand-new editions by Robert Gober and Bryan Nash Gill at the art fair in Miami from December 5 through December 9, 2012.