Montez Press April News

April Interjection: Chemotaxis on a Zebra Crossing  – Elida Silvey

April’s interjection features the short-story Chemotaxis on a Zebra Crossing by Elida Silvey. As the protagonist’s fictional senses are enhanced so are their real [removed];

Elida Silvey is a self-taught Mexican-American writer, editor and artist living in London. Her work is concerned with post-internet visual theory as it relates to the concepts of reality, time and ‘the self,’ experienced through (collective) memory. She regularly writes in experimental forms about this topic on her Substack, Through the Eye of a Needle. She is the assistant editor for Montez Press and runs her own writing/visual arts club called Exteriors.

→ Read Elida’s work here
→ Visit her Substack

From the WR archive: bot4bot – Emil Woudenberg

Emil Woudenberg is an artist and designer from Toronto, currently living in London. Their transdisciplinary practice focuses on do-it-yourself, de-platformed, open-source, low-tech, sustainable, and archival publishing. Since 2016, they have worked under Strike Design Studio, designing brands, websites, and printed materials. Their work has been exhibited at institutions such as Temple Contemporary, Sam Fox School, The Bentway, and MOCA Toronto. They have completed residencies with SuperHi, Trinity Square Video, Digital Justice League, MOCA, and Whippersnapper Gallery. Through practice-led research, they explore not-so-new alternative online spaces, their technicality/materiality, and the communities that occupy [removed];

The year is 2025 and the Internet is dead now. Bots dominate cyberspace, and the web has transformed into a lifeless network of automated clickers. Bots write by and for the bots, mimicking organic intelligence, feeding an endless loop of timeline data mining, algorithmic targeted ads and toxic tweet waste. In this synthetic landscape, the border between bots and humans are blurred. Together with the bots, we break the Internet forming underground networks free from algorithms, on foot we forge subversive desire paths and rewrite the collective code. – Emil Woudenberg 

→ Read bot4bot – Emil Woudenberg 
→ Visit their website

España! Catch Timmy Simonds in conversation with Alexander Clark at Backstory Bookshop.

Prepositions reaches Barcelona with a special in conversation event between Alexander Clark and Timmy Simonds. Join us at Backstory Bookshop on Wednesday 9th April from 6 – 7[removed];

This book will change your body—and your mind. Prepositions is a set of bite-sized propositions for being and thinking otherwise. Put it under your tongue and see what [removed];— Leah Pires

→ Prepositions by Timmy Simonds & Aaron Lehman

London Performance Studios – Spring Season

Our friends at London Performance Studios have released their Spring Season with performances happening from Friday, 4th of April until Saturday, 26th [removed];

→ LPS’ Spring Season

MPR April Schedule: 

MPR will be broadcasting throughout the month from 46 Canal Street in New York, live in London from London Performance Studios, and live from Casa Gomorra in Mexico City. Check out our full schedule for more details at Montez Press Radio.

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→ Keep an eye on this month’s schedule
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With love,
MPR & Montez Press