Thematic-Making It Public

Proposal

Now that now that digitalization is commonplace and born-digital materials are mainstream this thematic wants to focus on theories and practices of e-publishing in various forms. The central focus of the thematic is: what is a hybrid publishing platform and how can it be used?

Focusing on the results from the documentation classes of the previous three years, in which first MMDC years students developed documentation projects that portraited or responded to the graduation works from the second year's students. Using these as materials for the creation of a collaborative e-pub will answer these questions. The documentation material consists of texts (articles and interviews), photos, animations, video, paper publications, and websites. Next to the practical implications we will discuss how research and publishing in the arts have changed over the past decade. We will explore new tools for gathering knowledge, examine platforms for multimedia publishing or collaborative writing experiments, focus on the interplay between pixels and print, and discuss open and closed spheres of knowledge. As an outcome we'll challenge students to conceive and implement an electronic publication for the works developed under the context of the documentation project.

In the meantime this will inform their thinking about the meaning and value of documentation and the way it is used by different kinds of institutes, organisations and individuals that produce, collect and manage cultural material.

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Preparation

Program

• 1 Oct Pre-event: Capturing a moment: Where net art and performance meet - Stedelijk Museum - 7:30 - 9:30 pm

• 2,3,4 Nov Presentations & Worksessions
  • Morning: presentations
  • Afternoon: work sessions
  • Evening: screening

Afterwards students will continue to work towards the publication and will meet with Annet and Andre every other week.

Tentative Reading List

• Drucker, Johanna. The Century of Artists’ Books. Granary Books, 2004.
• Hayles, Katherine. Writing Machines. MIT Press, 2002. (mention this to Steve)
• Mansoux, Aymeric. “How Deep Is You Soruce?,” 2013. http://texts.bleu255.com/how-deep-is-your-source/.
• Emerson, Lori. Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
• Bhaskar, Michael. The Content Machine: Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network. Anthem Press, 2013.

• Johanna Drucker Graphesis;
• Matthew G. Kirschenbaum forthcoming book
• Geoff Cox, Nicolas Malevé, Michael Murtaugh [Archiving the Data-body: human and nonhuman agency in the documents of Kurenniemi http://activearchives.org/wiki/Archiving_the_Data-body:_human_and_nonhuman_agency_in_the_documents_of_Kurenniemi] (?)
• Archive 2020 Interviews with Florian Cramer.

Tentative guest list

• Pia Poll - digital publishing for publishers - ?day?
• Sandra Fauconnier - Tuesday
• Amy Wu - underground publishing & Zine Camp - Monday
• Michale Murtaugh - Active Archive - will do remote from MIT. Any day, but in the afternoon
• Florian Cramer - Monday or Wed - Off-line digital reading
• Aymeric Mansoux - Monday (11:00-17:00) - Novel forms of distribution: cultural diffusion of proto free and free culture (undefined notions of access, freedom and public )

• Femke suggestions:
  • Alexia De Visscher. She is a graphic designer, publisher, typographer, researcher working on Mondotheque since two years.

Her interest is in (libre) book publishing and the connection to the ideas of Otlet.

• • Martino Morandi

Total: 9 participants. 3 per day.

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brain storm

• We will explore:
  • new tools for gathering knowledge,
  • examine platforms for multimedia publishing or collaborative writing experiments,
  • focus on the interplay between pixels and print
  • discuss open and closed spheres of knowledge

questions

• Shall the 3 days of the project have a more practical or reflective nature?
  • if reflective how should the work be organized?

• Shall we elaborate on how the archive of these materials might become performative?
• What is the reason behind archiving these documentation works?

Steps / work-groups for presentation

• Source material: digitization, storage (on the wiki) and organization
• Publishing pipeline: gathering content from the wiki and translated into formats that can be "imported" into output(s)
• Front-end design of the output(s)
  • design of the outputs
• Editorial
  • organization
  • produce contextualizing texts
  • proof-read
  • document process