Triple Canopy (online magazine)

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.{{cite magazine|url=https://harpers.org/blog/2008/09/weekend-read-bearing-down-on-the-banks/|title=Weekend Read: Bearing Down on the Banks|first=Wyatt|last=Mason|magazine=Harper's Magazine|date=Sep 5, 2008|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}

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."{{cite web|url=http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/07/13/jukeboxes-on-the-moon|title=Jukeboxes on the Moon|author=Paul Constant|website=The Stranger|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} 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 Tellus, and the experimental publication Blast.{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/9/contents/a_note_on_unplaced_movements|title=Triple Canopy – A Note on Unplaced Movements by Triple Canopy|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/06/new-york-literary-magazines-publishing|title=New York magazines – start spreading the news|first=Hermione|last=Hoby|date=Jan 6, 2013|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020|website=Theguardian.com}}

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,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/series|title=Series|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2014-biennial|title=Whitney Biennial 2014|website=whitney.org|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/pattern-masters|title=Triple Canopy – Pattern Masters by Lucy Raven, Jen Liu, David Horvitz & Susie Ibarra|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://whitney.org/Events/TripleCanopy|title=Triple Canopy presents Pattern Masters|website=whitney.org|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} the Museum of Modern Art (New York),{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/miscellaneous-uncatalogued-material|title=Triple Canopy – Miscellaneous Uncatalogued Material by David Horvitz, Sarah Crowner & Ariana Reines|first1=MoMA Print Studio with David|last1=Horvitz|first2=Sarah|last2=Crowner|first3=Ariana|last3=Reines|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2012/02/13/this-week-at-print-studio-triple-canopy-and-altered-books-workshop/|title=MoMA | This Week at Print Studio: Triple Canopy and Altered Books Workshop|website=Moma.org|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2012/05/01/revisiting-print-studio-miscellaneous-uncatalogued-material/|title=MoMA | Revisiting Print Studio: Miscellaneous Uncatalogued Material|website=Moma.org|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} MoMA PS1,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/an-afternoon-of-failure|title=Triple Canopy – An Afternoon of Failure by Joshua Cohen, Eileen Myles, Helen DeWitt, Sam Frank, Travis Jeppesen, Keith Gessen, Elevator Repair Service, US Girls, William Gaddis, Derek Lucci, Ain Gordon, Jennifer Tipton, Reed Barrow, Scott Boggins & The Review of Contemporary Fiction|first1=Triple|last1=Canopy|first2=Dalkey Archive|last2=Press|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/ps1|title=MoMA PS1|website=Moma.org|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/speculations-the-future-is-___________|title=Triple Canopy – Speculations ("The future is ______") by Triple Canopy|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://www.momaps1.org/expo1/module/school/ |title=MoMA PS1 |publisher=MoMA PS1 |date= |accessdate=2020-01-06}} MCA Denver,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/series/corrected_slogans_a_publication_in_four_acts|title=Triple Canopy – Corrected Slogans (A Publication in Four Acts)|first=Triple|last=Canopy|website=Canopycanopycanopy.com|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.alexandergray.com/other-exhibitions/postscript-writing-after-conceptual-art|title=- Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art - Other Exhibitions - Alexander Gray Associates|website=Alexandergray.com|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} and Kunsthalle Wien,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/dear-future-reader--view-contents-of-folder|title=Triple Canopy – Dear Future Reader (View Contents of Folder) by Triple Canopy|first=Triple|last=Canopy|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://kunsthallewien.at/social/|title=Home|website=kunsthallewien.at|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} 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,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/congratulations-to-the-2018-publication-intensive-l-a-participants|title=Triple Canopy – Congratulations to the 2018 Publication Intensive Los Angeles participants|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/triple-canopy-in-residence-at-the-hammer-museum-los-angeles|title=Triple Canopy – Triple Canopy in residence at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} Mexico City,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/universal_time_tiempo_universal|title=Triple Canopy – Universal Time (Tiempo Universal)|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} Chicago,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/art-in-circulation|title=Triple Canopy – Art in Circulation by Colby Chamberlain, Peter J. Russo & Adam Florin|first=Public lecture at Columbia College|last=Chicago|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} Tucson,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/scale-models|title=Triple Canopy – Scale Models by Adam Florin, Seth Erickson, William S. Smith, Adam Helms & Taylor Baldwin|first=Triple Canopy in residence at the Museum of Contemporary Art|last=Tucson|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} Paris, Berlin, Sarajevo,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/sender-carrier-receiver|title=Triple Canopy – Sender, Carrier, Receiver by Per-Oskar Leu, Lene Berg, Ken Okiishi, Sam Frank, Jacob Kirkegaard, Steve Rowell, Jeremy Shaw, Fillip, XYM, 032c, Easton West, 10-2-10, Hush Hush, The Public School, Andreas Bunte, Uljana Wolf, Alexander Provan, Stefan Sulzer, Sandra Bradvić & Molly Kleiman|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/perfect-strangers|title=Triple Canopy – Perfect Strangers by Azra Akšamija, Adela Jušić, Mladen Miljanović, Radenko Milak & Muharem Bazdulj with Alexander Provan, Sarah Resnick & Molly Kleiman|first1=Triple Canopy in Sarajevo with Azra|last1=Akšamija|first2=Adela|last2=Jušić|first3=Mladen|last3=Miljanović|first4=Radenko|last4=Milak|first5=Muharem|last5=Bazdulj|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} Turin,{{cite web|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/factual-decoys|title=Triple Canopy – Factual Decoys by Duncan Campbell, Taraneh Fazeli, David Levine, Alexander Provan, Alix Rule & Caleb Waldorf|first=Triple Canopy at|last=Artissima|website=Triple Canopy|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} 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 Chinatown, Manhattan, shared with Electronic Arts Intermix. Until 2017, Triple Canopy shared a space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with film and electronic art venue Light Industry{{cite web|url=http://lightindustry.org/|title=Light Industry|website=lightindustry.org|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} and open-source educational program The Public School New York.{{Cite web|url=http://thepublicschool.org/about/nyc/about/nyc|title=About New York | The Public School|date=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210181608/http://thepublicschool.org/about/nyc/about/nyc|access-date=7 November 2021|archive-date=2013-02-10}} Triple Canopy's venue regularly hosts performances, lectures, screenings, talks, and other public events. The magazine also maintains an active presence in Berlin and Los Angeles.

The New York Times called Triple Canopy “a multitasking brain trust of a nonprofit that publishes an extremely smart Internet magazine”;{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/arts/design/per-oskar-leu-crisis-and-critique.html|title=PER-OSKAR LEU: 'Crisis and Critique'|first=Holland|last=Cotter|work=The New York Times |date=Feb 16, 2012|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020|via=NYTimes.com}} 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.” {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/arts/design/triple-canopy-online-journal-celebrates-13th-issue.html|title=Triple Canopy Online Journal Celebrates 13th Issue|first=Melena|last=Ryzik|work=The New York Times |date=Aug 17, 2011|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020|via=NYTimes.com}} 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."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/triple-canopy-slowing-down-the-internet|title=Triple Canopy: "Slowing Down the Internet"|first=Sasha|last=Frere-Jones|magazine=The New Yorker|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} 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."{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/9a4c0108-d48b-11e0-a42b-00144feab49a|title=The List: Five of the finest art magazines|website=Ft.com|date=3 September 2011|access-date=7 November 2021}} In a note about David Graeber’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.{{cite web|url=https://www.bookforum.com/papertrail/dec-8-2010-at-9-00-00-am-6825|title=Dec 8, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am|website=Bookforum.com|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}} 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).{{cite web|url=http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?page_id=73|title=Art Journal Award|accessdate=Jan 6, 2020}}

• Triple Canopy, ed., Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 1 (2012)
• Sarah Crowner, 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)
• Anna Della Subin, 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)
• Hilton Als with Jennifer Krasinski, Andy Warhol: The Series (2017)

• Fatima Al Qadiri
• Hilton Als
• Cory Arcangel
• Kevin Beasley
• Mel Bochner
• Ted Chiang
• Joshua Cohen (writer)
• Gabriella Coleman
• Samuel R. Delany
• Renee Gladman
• Rivka Galchen
• David Graeber
• Lucy Ives
• Steffani Jemison
• Jon Kessler
• Katie Kitamura
• Josh Kline
• Wayne Koestenbaum
• Hari Kunzru
• Ralph Lemon
• David Levine
• Glenn Ligon
• Jill Magid
• Tom McCarthy
• Fred Moten
• Trevor Paglen
• William Pope.L
• Kameelah Janan Rasheed
• Ariana Reines
• Namwali Serpell
• Bob Stein (computer pioneer)
• Anna Della Subin
• Martine Syms
• Astra Taylor
• Lynne Tillman
• Mónica de la Torre
• Constance DeJong

• List of literary magazines
• List of art magazines

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• [http://canopycanopycanopy.com Triple Canopy]
• [http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/1/state_of_inauthenticity The State of Inauthenticity] - an analysis of the International Necronautical Society from Issue 1
• [http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/4/star_wars__a_new_heap Star Wars: A New Heap] - John Powers' acclaimed essay from Issue 4
• [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/12/the_used_future.php The Used Future] - Kevin Kelly's review of Star Wars: A New Heap
• [http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/10/to_have_is_to_owe To Have Is to Owe] - David Graeber's essay on the history of debt from Issue 10
• [http://canopycanopycanopy.com/10/notes_in_time Notes in Time] - a digital reanimation of Nancy Spero's landmark work from Issue 10
• [http://hyperallergic.com/15368/triple-canopy-online/ Digitizing Art Online with Triple Canopy] - an analysis of the digitized "Notes in Time"
• [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/we-are-all-anonymous-podcast We Are All Anonymous] - a conversation which brought together Gabriella Coleman (author of essay, [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/our_weirdness_is_free "Our Weirdness Is Free,"] from Issue 15), David Auerbach (author of the essay, [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/anonymity_as_culture__treatise "Anonymity as Culture: Treatise,"] from Issue 15) and lawyer James Grimmelmann
• [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/international_art_english International Art English] - Alix Rule and David Levine's essay on the rise of the art-world press release from Issue 16
• [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/id-rather-talk-about-the-post-part 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
• [https://triplecanopy.itch.io/high-treason High Treason] - a video game against official nationalism by Juan Caloca for Issue 22
• [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/triptych-texas-pool-party/#title-page Triptych: Texas Pool Party] - Namwali Serpell's three-part fiction on the 2015 McKinney, Texas, pool party incident for Issue 23
• [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/triple-canopy-slowing-down-the-internet "Triple Canopy: 'Slowing Down the Internet'"], Sasha Frere-Jones,The New Yorker, 17 January 2012
• [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/06/new-york-literary-magazines-publishing "New York literary magazines – start spreading the news"], Hermione Hoby, The Observer, 5 January 2013
• [https://niemanreports.org/articles/the-artistry-of-visual-arts-writing/ "Critics and Online Outlets Leading the Vanguard in Arts Writing"], Mary Louise Schumacher, Nieman Reports, 24 May 2018

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