bzzzzzz.pub was born during lockdown as a micro-publishing line focused on machine-to-machine conversations: texts, outputs, and digital debris meant to become printed objects, at least in theory. A spin-off of Green Cube Gallery, it was curated by Guido Segni and Matías Ezequiel Reyes.

The result was perfectly aligned with the moment: a publishing experiment both sharp and fragile.

The one release

The series lasted exactly one release, complete with ISBN, never publicly presented: The Sacred Pizza and the Abominable Platforms by Federico Poni. An algorithmic-assisted collection of text and images scraped from food delivery platforms, built on the angriest UK user reviews and in dialogue with Marvin Harris’s Good to Eat: “a self-fascinated compendium of frustration formalized in quilted images.”

The volume that never was

A second volume, by Marco Cadioli, was ready to print, but never made it to the press.

Digital fatigue

Then digital fatigue took over: too many calls, too many screens, too much network. The project did not crash, it simply faded out with a certain elegance.