Published November 3, 2025

Zine rethinks academic texts, by Alum Amanda Killian

Amanda Killian is a 2016 alumnus with a dual BA in Studio Art (Graphic Design concentration) and Art History, with an English minor. 

Zoom image: Portrait of a woman with curly red hair wearing a black long-sleeve shirt and red lipstick, in front of a bright red backdrop. Portrait of a woman with curly red hair wearing a black long-sleeve shirt and red lipstick, in front of a bright red backdrop.

About Amanda

Amanda Killian (Class of 2016; outstanding senior award, Department of Art) is a writer, photographer & freelance brand designer whose art practice is an interdisciplinary exploration of language and culture. They live with their wife in Atlanta, Georgia, and spend their free time writing about live music, perfume, the destruction of works of art, and queer history.

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Killian's Statement on "Disseminate", digital zine

I've been working hard lately on a bunch of projects and every so often I think it's important to do something fun, quick and dirty, just for me. So here's a digital zine for you all: DISSEMINATE is a visual study of academic texts I was assigned as an undergraduate (and sometimes a course-auditor of grad classes) from 2015-2017 at the University at Buffalo.

At that time most departments were still beholden to the humble office Xerox machine for disseminating their required readings. The automated, quick and dirty PDF scan comes with many visual quirks: images blacked out to prioritize clear text, curled pages, crossed-out margin notes.

You can get it at: amandakillian.work/disseminate-zine. Enjoy and share with all your friends, because why not?

Zoom image: Disseminate, Digital Collage Zine, 25 pages. Published October 5 2025 Three columns of content, with the outside ones being bands of muted orange, and the center being a zine cover that says "disseminate" three times, and has low resolution text photocopy excerpts collages together.

Disseminate, Digital Collage Zine, 25 pages. Published October 5 2025

Zoom image: Disseminate, Digital Collage Zine, 25 pages. Published October 5 2025 Three columns of content, with the outside ones being bands of muted orange, and the center being a zine cover that says "disseminate" three times, and has low resolution text photocopy excerpts collages together.

Disseminate, Digital Collage Zine, 25 pages. Published October 5 2025

All images courtesy of the artist.