In the 1970s we were inspired by (and happily included within) our friend Kenneth Gaburo’s LINGUA PRESS (Collections Two and Three). We had already been spending much attention and time to the graphic and sonic presentation of our writings and music (having been too often disappointed by the dispensations of institutional typesetting and audio DOLBY-ing practices). First came the graphic renewal of Perspectives of New Music in 1979; then the INTER/PLAY cassette series, documenting realtime soundmaking sessions at Princeton and Bard during the 1980s. Elaine Barkin was producing and distributing her own graphic works independently as well, and in 1988 she suggested we (Elaine, Jim, and I) converge our enterprises; we produced IMAGES: A COLLECTION and called ourselves OPEN SPACE. Books and CDs followed, and in 1999 the magazines The Open Space Magazine and The Open Space Web Magazine were formed, with the addition of Mary Roberts and Tildy Bayar to our core group. Dorota Czerner became a fellow editor and producer in 2003, and Arthur Margolin, Dean Rosenthal, and Jon Forshee have since become co-editors of both the print and web magazines. The list of our Contributing Editors is posted on our website. – Benjamin Boretz, 1/2011