User:Eleanorg/annotation/Post Digital Print
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chapter 2: A History of Alternative Publishing Reflecting the Evolution of Print
- 20th century avant-garde/s re-imagined the book/magazine but didn't do away with it as a paradigm
- Dadaists, Futurists, Surrealists & Fluxus challenged how publications were composed & distributed
- Cheap new printing technology (mimeograph, Xerox) facilitated DIY publishing in 60s-80s
- Mail Art anticipated networked publishing of the WWW
- Digital content added to print media in 90s as 'bonus content' (e.g. free floppy disc with magazine)
- by 2000 print zines have been overtaken by blogs
- Fluxus artist Dick Higgins' prediction of 'intermedia' now a reality
chapter 3: The Mutation of Paper: Material Paper in Immaterial Times
- Printed newspapers dying, or adapting to new distribution models (e.g. Evening Standard: free, funded by ads)
- Need for periodicals to shift their focus to providing 'best of' summaries of yesterday's news
- The situation of online news: aggregation and 'atomising content' into user-curated feeds
- The emergence of 'predictive news' in the 24hr news environment, and artworks responding to it
- The importance of the physicality of printed paper
- POD sees paper taking on attributes of digital media: instant, updatable, customizable
