User:Michael Murtaugh/What is XPUB?

Thinking about sketching a history of the XPUB course, including it's pre-history as Media Design + Networked Media. With some key texts along the way, traces of which are perhaps already in the wiki!

Such as Matthew Fuller's The Impossibility of Interface, including Haron Farocki's video work I though I was seeing convicts.

Re-reading TIOI... thoughts of example of outlooks hot-air balloon and the Boeing 737 fatal software glitches. Also came across this contemporary video essay exploring the essay.

On second thought, maybe consider the Web Stalker...

• I/O/D Texts
• https://anthology.rhizome.org/the-web-stalker
• emulated version

I would also touch on Femke Snelting's Awkward Gestures (linked from nice wiki page with a programmatic layout tools), written as a reflection of the origins of OSP

While a familiar gesture is one that fits perfectly well in a generally accepted model, an awkward gesture is a movement that is not completely synchronic. It’s not a countermovement, nor a break from the norm; it doesn’t exist outside of the pattern, nor completely in it. Like a moiré effect reveals the presence of a grid, awkward behaviour can lead to a state of increased awareness; a form of productive insecurity that presents us with openings that help understand the complex interaction between skills, tools and medium.

and link to FLOSS+Art the book, edited by Aymeric Mansoux + Marloes de Valk, designed by OSP.

and perhaps Florian Cramer's essay on the What is Post-Digital

Proponents of ‘post-digital’ attitudes may reject digital technology as either sterile high tech or low-fidelity trash. In both cases, they dismiss the idea of digital processing as the sole universal all-purpose form of information processing. Consequently, they also dismiss the notion of the computer as the universal machine, and the notion of digital computational devices as all-purpose media.

as it's part of Aymeric Mansoux's formulation of XPUB.

XPUB is the Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing of the Piet Zwart Institute. XPUB focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.

From AM, maybe something along the lines of How Deep is Your Source (link from AM's monoskop page).

XPUB’s interests in publishing are therefore twofold: first, publishing as the inquiry and participation into the technological frameworks, political context and cultural processes through which things are made public; and second, how these are, or can be, used to create publics.