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, and 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.

Following the experience gained from working in hybrid publishing projects, such as Beyond Social and MMDC Graduation website, we want to challenge students to think and implement a hybrid publishing pipeline for the works developed for the documentation project. In concrete terms participants will be asked to: Propose strategies for storing documentation works inside the MMDC wiki; To develop the structure by which content is organized and easily found inside the wiki; To elaborate the publishing pipeline the content needs to follow in order to arrive its public manifestations; To elaborate the visual forms of those manifestations.

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

• 3 days
• 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

question

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

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)
• Output(s) front-end design
  • design of the outputs