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 Footnote 1 Sara DimmittThe idea of censorship accomplishing the opposite of what it aims to accomplish inspired the use of altered newspaper articles as a form of communication. Visually represented as redacted emails sent between two friends, the censorship of text results in the creation of new sentences. An attempted act of suppression serves instead as a method for creation, directing our attention towards the text instead of away. |  Footnote 2 Charlotte BrooksThrough the medium of film we are able to reveal only what is in front of the camera, nothing more and nothing less. This unedited, amateur video explores the boundaries of personal privacy. The fifty photographic stills on display are footnoted by the film which can be viewed in its entirety at www.footnotes17.com. |  Footnote 3 Paola TotaroFour decades before newspapers became enveloped by the crisis created by the internet, the great media theorist, Marshall McLuhan predicted that the loss of classified advertising would threaten the viability of newsprint and newspaper media. An ink and paper mockup of his prescient words are displayed, framed like an artwork, under the death notices headline. People still want births, deaths and marriages printed on paper, advertisements of a bygone age. |
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 Footnote 4 Harpreet KharaThis response, inspired by the Situationists, curates and highlights twitter as a vast unrecognised, living, shadow archive. In light of the on-going Edward Snowden (NSA) saga, Harpreet noted that this shadow archive is being recorded, not by the Guardian but by security services and the American Library of Congress. A visualization of the living twitter archive was encrypted into a QR code and collaged to the front of the paper. |  Footnote 5 Marnie Botwright-RanceEach day, a health related story appears in the newspaper using specialised yet familiar words to explain complex conditions. These words often portray a false sense of simplicity in their meaning. Inspired by Raymond Williams celebrated essay 'Keywords' this response used the Wellcome Collection’s Library and Archive to select and research a word with specific reference to its historical and cultural evolution. |  Footnote 6 Amy TabarlyThe newspaper is one of the first sites where reality gains its narrative form, and in this process of becoming, the major stories are sifted out from the minor stories of the day. These minor stories are the overlooked details, the bypassed anecdotes and the forgotten connections that eventually link to other minor and major stories. As such, a footnote can help to bridge a gap in text and provide additional references. A footnote can help to string up a web of connections previously unknown. |
 Footnote 7 Kasia SobuckaDigression is a collaborative project between Katarzyna Sobucka and artist Alicja Rogalska devised their response using the device of digression as a rhetorical tool. Personal anecdotes,mundane experiences and everyday observations provided a context foregrounding and reflecting wider societal and political concerns presented in the day's news. Their response emerged from this seemingly unrelated, playful detour from the main source of information. |  Footnote 8 Lillian CasillasLillian collaborated with California artist, Ernesto Yerena Montejano, who created a work inspired by the daily newspaper and which reflected their common interest in issues of immigration and economics, indigenous rights and colonisation. |  Footnote 9 Alicia Maurel (Mauritius)On two consecutive days, Alicia Maurel and Giulia Campaner were inspired by the Guardian's pictorial pages, Eyewitness, and chose to select images from two parts of the world depicted less commonly by the newspaper. Displaying images from Istanbul and Mauritius, Alicia and Giulia offer other stories, testify their own realities and offer alternative views of the world on that particular day. |
 Footnote 10 Giulia Campaner (Turkey)Inspired by the Guardian's pictorial pages, Eyewitness, Giulia Campaner and Alicia Maurel (previous footnote) chose to select images from two parts of the world depicted less commonly by the newspaper. Displaying images from Istanbul and Mauritius, Alicia and Giulia offer other stories, testify their own realities and offer alternative views of the world on that particular day. |  Footnote 11 Michael FenechIn Malta, irregular immigration brings out the racist, rightwing tendencies of a section of the population - encouraged by the populist government. Five year old Lamar, a Syrian refugee, lost her mother, pregnant with twins, and her sister when their boat capsized near Malta earlier this month. The footnote, in this context, is an act of resistance: a choice to follow an agenda that is different from the main one set by the establishment. Images by photojournalist Darrin Zammit Lupi. |  Footnote 12 Rosie RamRosie worked with artist Suzanne Treister, whose work references developments in technology in relation to other social and cultural phenomena. She has a particular interest in the military and issues of mass surveillance. In her series Camouflage, Treister takes the PRISM documents leaked by Edward Snowden and overlays delicate watercolour patterns onto them which camouflage the corporate appearance of the original. |
 Footnote 13 Ludovica GilioLudovica’s response reflects upon the ways information is conveyed through the language of the newspaper. News reported by different newspapers is analysed as a text and translated into visual. Working with a graphic designer, she produced an info graphic of the language used by each newspaper, translating from text to visual and offering the reader a new level of information. |  Footnote 14 Beata WilczekBeata and designer, Sophie Rowley, burned newspaper pages to create an ink made of ashes and a writing stick and a container for storing ink made from recycled newspaper. It symbolically underlines the aspect of rewriting the past and reflects on slowing down and sustainability by using DIY techniques such as burning and paper mache. This response reflects on the speed of news and the notion that it has erased the concept of footnote. |  Footnote 15 Marc MazauskasUsing the newspaper as the medium, Marc’s response creates a web of missing words, letters, numbers and even symbols, to develop a story that may or may not be true to the viewer. This piece is more about questioning everything that is created by the media and seeing if censorship in modern times is still a relevant tool of captivating an audience. This piece addresses questions about anarchy and the boundary between fact and fiction. |
 Footnote 16 Melanie WeaverThis response explores the concept of the selection process involved in the production of the daily newspaper. Inspired by the constrained writing techniques of Oulipo, a formula will be applied to the original front page of the newspaper in order to generate an alternative front page, creating a new process for the selection of content that removes any choice on behalf of the editor. |  Footnote 17 Jenniyfer IdehOn 10th December, the Guardian ran a story about an ambitious new campaign against state surveillance, with a letter signed by 500 of the world’s leading authors including Martin Amis and Arundhati Roy. London based teacher/illustrator, Anna Vernon Aristizabal, decided to place some of her everyday characters alongside the most high profile victims of state surveillance - an instance where the minor footnote took over the major portion of the newspaper page. |
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