Thematic-Making It Public

Making It Public - Synopsis

Now that digitalisation 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 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.

Topics

Distribution Networks

MONDAY

10:00-11:30 Introduction Annet and Andre + group assignment

11:30-12:30 Aymeric Mansoux - Making it public for who? The limits of consensus in free culture access and distribution.

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:30 Amy Wu - Fanzines and underground networks of publications' distribution.

14:30-15:00 Break

15:00-17:30 Practice

17:30-18:30 Dinner break

18:30-22:30 Films

Introduction / comments by Martino Morandi on the Mondoteque project.

Francoise Levie, The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World (2002) - 60 min

Ben Lewis, Google and the World Brain (2012) - 90 min (will it moved to Tuesday?)

Pre-reading - for morning assignment

Dick Hebdige, Subculture: the meaning of style (chapter one, from culture to hegemony, pp.5-19) http://www.erikclabaugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/181899847-Subculture.pdf

Ferdinand Tönnies, Community and Civil Society (Book one, the argument, pp.17-21) http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511816260

Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony, Radical Democracy and the Political (Part III, for an agonistic model of democracy, pp.191-206) http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=274433616c641c4f936ce26c9411edf2

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Pre-reading - for afternoon practice

From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/from-print-to-ebooks-a-hybrid-publishing-toolkit-for-the-arts/ http://networkcultures.org/digitalpublishing/

Additional reading (not required, yet recommended)

Vannevar Bush. As We May Think. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ original article scan

Aymeric Mansoux. How Deep is Your Source. http://texts.bleu255.com/how-deep-is-your-source/

Writing the Archive

TUESDAY

10:30-11:30 Introduction Annet and Andre + group assignment

11:30-12:30 Sandra Fauconnier - Writing Wikimedia

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:30 Michael Murtaugh - Active Archives; Erkki Kurenniemi: In 2048

14:30-15:00 Break

15:00-17:30 Practice

17:30-18:30 Dinner break

18:30-20:30 Continue Practice

20:30-21:30 Films / shorts (t.b.c.)

Selection of interviews http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/digital-cultures-research-lab/projects/dcrl-questions/

Pre-reading - for morning assignment

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

Lori Emerson. Reading Writing Interface: from the digital to the bookbound. (Introduction, Chapter 4 - The Fascicle as Process and Product) (link soon)

Matthew Fuller, It looks like you're writing a letter: Microsoft, in: Behind the Blip. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0009/msg00040.html

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Additional reading (not required, yet recommended)

Michel Foucault, What is an author? http://www.movementresearch.org/classesworkshops/melt/Foucault_WhatIsAnAuthor.pdf

Matthew Kirschenbaum, What Is an @uthor? https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/uthor

Digital & Hybrid Publishing

WEDNESDAY

10:30-11:30 Introduction Annet and Andre + group assignment

11:30-12:30 Practice

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-16:30 Practice

16:30-17:30 Pia Pool - Digital publishing for publishers

17:30-18:30 Dinner break

19:00-20:00 Florian Cramer - Off-line digital reading

Pre-reading - for morning assignment

Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (chapters 1,2,3) http://monoskop.org/images/b/bf/Hayles_N_Katherine_Writing_Machines.pdf

Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists' Books. ( Chapters 1 - The artist's Book as Idea and Form, 7 - Self-reflexivity in book Form) in WdKA library

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Additional reading (not required, yet recommended)

Friedrich Kittler, Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter - chapter 3 Typewriter

Alessandro Ludovico Post-Digital Print. http://monoskop.org/images/a/a6/Ludovico%2C_Alessandro_-_Post-Digital_Print._The_Mutation_of_Publishing_Since_1894.pdf

Video: Books in Browsers 2014: Johanna Drucker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz9aELG8aQs

Examples

Electronic Literature & Its Emerging Forms: http://dtc-wsuv.org/elit/elit-loc/works/

http://collection.eliterature.org/1/ http://collection.eliterature.org/2/

Silvio Lorusso, Post-Digital Publishing Archive: http://p-dpa.net/

I love e-Poetry: http://iloveepoetry.com/

Selection of hypertext-based artworks: https://ipertestualmente.org/selection-of-hypertext-based-artworks/