User:Camilo/Final presentation

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Background

Coming from a background in visual arts and printed matter, my first approach to a publishing practice was the idea of the book. Since I was a child, the book has been the magic carrier where things come to life. I've always enjoyed its materiality and its ability to unveil thoughts and digest emotions from page to page. However, I comprehended by experience that publishing goes beyond this object and there is a vast world of formats, materials, tools and processes besides the codex. Publishing practices today sit in a post-digital era where malleability and complexity constantly expand and contract in new shapes and forms. From paper to screen, from t-shirts to radio, in essence, every publication becomes from the mere act of making public.

First Year?

Special Issue · 1

The issue was mainly about re-publishing.

• I did ATATA, the essay written by Natalia Chavez.
• Atata means Reciprocity awareness.

⤷ I used conjunctions as the key element that connects 

• I hide all the conjunctions with arrows that emphasize the relational aspect. The reader can click on the arrows to reveal the conjunction.
• I maped words with drawing tools
• Started to warm up with Python, Nltk, HTML, CSS.

URL: https://issue.xpub.nl/13/ATATA/ ps: it has some secrets in it.

Special Issue · 2

Small tools and game dynamics in publishing

Partial-topological space.

It is a system of microgames connected to each other from different characters.

* The structure of the game experiments with the idea of Topology and proposes a set of non-games that have intersections and unions.

between them.

* Experiment on structures.

Tools:

* bitsy, javascript, and drawing.

Special Issue · 3

Radio Implicancies: Diffraction.

* Questioning the concept of reflection.

* What is diffraction? How do I relate with it....

Second Year

Thesis Research

Thesis title: Permeable territories: between reflection and diffraction weaving a publishing practice.

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* Contextualizing my own practice and experience with publishing

* Questioning publishing territories through a diffractive lens.

* Understanding Diffraction.

* Subverting glossary structures.

* Sketching ideas for experiments.

Tools:

* Using drawing as a research tool.

* Exercise paged.js and web to print workflow.

Attempting diffraction

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Attempting diffraction is a constellation/pattern/bag of different experiments that emerged from the question: How can publishing practices perform/enhance/propose diffraction?

  # Diffraction 
   ⤷ It happens when waves -light, water, sound- encounter an obstacle and form 
      a multitude of patterns as they pass through. 
   ⤷ To perform inter-connection between things.
   ⤷ It creates a **pattern of differences**
   ⤷ There is no sharp boundary separating the light from the darkness
   ⤷ Thinking the differences within el medio, el espacio que nos conecta y nos separa simultaneamente. 
   ⤷ About taking responsibility for the fact that our practices matter; the world is materialized 
     differently through different practices.

Motivation My very first motivation to start the project was to gather and share the different processes tools, concepts and so that I learned during the course. Coming from a printed matter background, the discovery of different processes changed my own experience with publishing. And because I'm also starting the publishing project with Maria, I wanted to make ourselves a cookbook, toolbox, or magic bag for the present practice. And after thinking and gathering the first things I came up with the idea of the glossary. And then, due to the very nature of diffraction, it started to be one and multiple things, that shapeshift and transform.

A brief glossary of glossaries

URL: https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/Camilo/a_brief_glossary/

It was a workshop to understand glossary structures collectively.

* Which things in glossaries were interesting to think about.

* Hierarchies, monolingual, written word predominantly.

Living Glossary for a diffractive publishing practice

URL: https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/Camilo/Glossary/

It is an ongoing and ever-evolving bag of words and resources for publishing. It questions glossaries' structure and performs relation-ability by being open to contribution and experiment with reading.

* To gather resources from last year and expand the research.

* Start questioning reflection and the way I was doing it.

* As a first attempt to diffract by annotating and expanding.

* To develop my own tools and create my own publishing system.

Rumination Sessions

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These are workshop sessions to digest the current state of the glossary. These moments activate the "Permeable Glossary" and invite other practitioners to be part while sharing and conversing around it.

* Explore Game dynamics.

* We are using cards to invite participants to ask themselves questions and perform relationships.

* Every relationship uses a different card inspired by knots, interwoven, magic, intersection,

* Pagedjs to print cards.

* Practice collaboration.

* Moment to circulate the glossary and invite to participate.

Living glossary environment

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It is a tool to make living glossaries from a text file. It allows the creation of a static website that uses the idea of glossary as a layering of annotations rather than a closed list of words and definitions.

* Working with flask, git repositories

* An understanding of sharing tools while making tools

Dear reader

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It is a letter and a micro application made in Flask to gather and circulate questions. It feeds the "Rumination Sessions" where questions are cards that initiate reflection. But in the future, it is already a living publication.

Questions of publishing

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It is a tool that aims to introduce a diffractive thought inside publishing processes. It is a tool that helps practitioners to reflect and diffract about their projects by asking questions and triggering the use of the "Permeable Glossary".

* Pedagogical understanding of diffraction inside the publishing practice

* What is a reflective publishing practice?

* How can diffraction add to it?

ps: autonomous Practices

Started to build my own server and taking care of my infrastructures.

getting comfortable and uncomfortable with languages, scripts, computers, routers, etc..