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

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

• Johanna Drucker Graphesis; The Century of Artists' Books;
• Matthew G. Kirschenbaum forthcoming book
• Lori Emmerson Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound

• Katherine Hayles Writing Machines - (mention this to Steve)
• Femke Snelting Conversation (potentially, if interviews touch upon publishing or archiving)
• 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 Anne Laforet, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk; Florian Cramer.

Tentative guest list

• Pia Poll - digital publishing for publishers
• Sandra Fauconnier -
• Femke Snelting - the Mondotéque project
• Amy Wu - underground publishing - Zine Camp
• Michale Murtaugh - Active Archive
• Florian Cramer - Off-line digital reading
• Aymeric Mansoux - beyond the dichotomy of open or closed culture.

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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