Makingitpublic-report
Decision made to return to the groups that prepared assignments for each of the days: Each group takes care of reporting all of the activities for each day: The reading assignment, the practice sessions, the speakers for that day.
Introduction & Conclusions will be produced after the first writing session along with the final report on how we decided to proceed with the actual thematic assignment of creating an epub.
A pad if you need it for collective report writing http://stuff2233.club:9001/p/PZI-making-it-public-report-writing Day 1 https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/day_1
| Makingitpublic-report | |
|---|---|
| Name | Making it Public |
| Start Date | Monday 2nd November 2015 |
| End Date | Wednesday 4th November 2015 |
| Organisers | Annet Dekker, Andre Castro |
| Guest speakers | Aymeric Mansoux, Amy Wu, Sandra Fauconnier, Micheal Murtaugh, Pia Pol, Florian Cramer |
| Thematic Project page link | |
Distribution Networks — Monday 2nd Nov
reading assignment
- texts that informed the exercises
- texts that informed the exercises
- texts that informed the exercises
speakers
Thesis, argument and conclusion research strands
practice outline and report
Writing the Archive — Tuesday 3rd Nov
reading assignment
- texts that informed the exercises
- texts that informed the exercises
- texts that informed the exercises
speakers
Thesis, argument and conclusion research strands
practice outline and report
Digital & Hybrid Publishing — Wednesday 4th Nov
reading assignment
- texts that informed the exercises
- texts that informed the exercises
- texts that informed the exercises
speakers
Working on the pad: http://piratepad.net/b5pzPdKFOF
PIA POL
Pia Pol, publisher at Valiz, talked about going digital from a publisher's perspective and her experience in this area. Valiz specializes on books mainly in the field of contemporary art, photography, design of architecture. In her talk she addresses background of publishing, advantages and disadvantages about e-publishing and the role of digital books in modern reading culture.
Thesis and arguments:
Publish ebooks is not as easy and cheap as it may looks like. Most of the time production costs are as big or even bigger as for paper ones, if to take in account that the digital book market is only 5 percent of the entire market, there is a lot of discussions about the necessity of production an ebook as a addition to printed one. Nevertheless there is a obvious advantages of ebook, especially when it comes to distribution and accessibility. Various other advantages were mentioned, such as searchability of the content, its interactive potential and the nearly not existing storage costs.
Conclusion:
Valiz still tries to be a relevant publishing house in the Netherlands. For them this means to cover all the steps of production and to work closely together with all parties like the author and the designer. To achieve this and to reduce production costs projects like the hybrid publishing toolkit are very interesting for them. Designers can now work simultaneously with the author and the work of each party can influence each other. They also tried to coax the author to write his text in markdown language because this would encourage the connection of the parties even more. She stayed out that as a publisher they have to watch the progression of the digital book carefully and be need to adapt to the upcoming changes.
FLORIAN CRAMER
Florian Cramer, theorist and critical researched, presented his point of view on how changed the role of curator and the whole term of curation in recent days. In the beginning curator was an Invisible bureaucrat hidden away in offices far away protecting collections. Originally the word 'curator' was not connected to the art system, but to natural science museums. However, in the 90-s the term 'curation' gained new meaning and curator became new type of cultural worker in the art business. Sometimes his role becomes even more important than the artist one.
Thesis:
Curator as a collector of objects and ideas, who establishes the policies whether the piece fits the collection or not. The collection became a new type of artwork. As in music industry DJ becomes new rockstar mixing and curating content, rather than creating it. Nevertheless collection should be stored and preserved. In terms of digital store it online do not guaranty safety. Cloud services, new collectors networks such as Pinterest, Tumblr are dependent on politics of the owner companies and the economical profits. ,
Conclusion: An epub could be a handy tool for 'modern qu
Conclusion:
ANDRE CASTRO
André Castro is a media artist, with a background in sound art and experimental music. His recent practice deals with digital publications, offline digital libraries, MIDI songs, and chatbots.
Thesis:
The features of hybrid publishing as multiple outputs from a single workflow, as a result, the influence of form over meaning becomes more apparent, what's more, hybrid publishing can be updated between source and outputs, and also enable interaction between writing and design, and can be reused because of the design templates and also more flexible and low cost. In terms of these features, numbers of hybrid publishing tools come out which can be used by everyone
Conclusion:
to be continued!!!!!