At 8 o’clock in the morning, the artist Thomas Bayrle would rent a photocopier for one hour in downtown Frankfurt. This was in the 1980s, so these whirring contraptions were around, but were costly to ...

But for artist and curator Aaron Stern, the humble copy machine is an opportunity—an alternative way to make art “that isn’t necessarily so costly or precious,” Stern tells W. “The photocopy allows me ...

The Xerox machine hit the market in the 1960s, and almost overnight it became so pervasive–so central to our daily routines–that it’s now almost impossible to imagine life without it. Of course, if ...

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Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the ...

Carl Andre’s “Xerox Book” contribution (1968) (GIF courtesy of Greg Allen) In 1968, Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler published the first edition of the so-called “Xerox Book.” The untitled publication, ...