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==<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 25px green; color:grey"; text-decoration: none; ><b>Invisible environmental impact of publishing</b></font>==
==<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 25px green; color:grey"; text-decoration: none; ><b>Invisible environmental impact of publishing</b></font>==


How to question the production problems in the anthropocene by small projects?
'''A guide in the shape of a thesis for self-publishers to understand the environmental impact and costs of resources when you publish online & in printed matter. This is a research on the different ways of how self-publishers add to the climate chaos, showing materialistic research on colors used in printing processes and giving an overview in examples in projects exposing the ingredients of their production means to get a grasp on the hidden material side of publishing and how to improve them.'''


===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >⧼Introduction⧽</font></span>===
===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >⧼Introduction⧽</font></span>===


A guide in the shape of a thesis for self-publishers to understand the environmental impact and costs of resources when you publish online or in printed mater. By first researching the different ways of how self-publishers append to the climate chaos, showing materialistic research on colors used in printing processes and giving an overview in examples in projects exposing the ingredients of their production means to get a grasp on the materialistic hidden side of publishing.  
In the introduction I will reflect on the three questions of my thesis. Why they are important to me and how they influence the struggles of production in self-publishing. The goal in my thesis is to materialize the publishing techniques I personally use in self-publishing. I choose on purpose to showcase hybrid publishing methods; in digital and printed matter for their similarities in the abstractness of resource use.


===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >¿Question 1: How do self-publishers contribute to ecocide?</font></span>===
===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >¿Question 1: What comes to mind while publishing?</font></span>===


To answer this question I would like to investigate many means of publishing and the environmental impact of the publishing methods. Examples of methods: e-mail newsletters, social media platforms, website servers, use of paper, Riso printing, silkscreen printing, copy machines etc.
For the first question of my thesis I would like to show and reflect on the rabbit holes of eco friendlier publishing. How do the tools, platforms and materials that I use as a self-publisher have an effect on the carbon footprint? For this I would like to browse through the hidden sides of energy usage, showing the complex systems of the publishing tools I use. To answer this question I focus on the design of the solar powered website that Roel Roscam Abbing developed for Low-Tech magazine. The projects use of dithered images and being designed in plain html opens up a conversation on the ethical use of light web-design in it's storage use.


===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >¿Question 2: How to understand colors?</font></span>===
===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >¿Question 2: How to de-abstract the material side of the digital realms?</font></span>===


For this question I would like to delve into the world of pigments and colorants. To answer this question I would like to expose the abstract view on colors used in publishing, in inks and common art supplies, to show the distance between the origin of the resources and the consumer (self-publishers). I would like to give an answer on what is cmyk?
To understand better the material side of the digital tools, platforms and media used in publishing it is necessary to understand the physicality of computers in it's resources. When typing on Open Office, using Photoshop or any other digital program it is impossible to understand all the facilities needed to create these tools. To give a little insight in this process I would like to show the most used elements inside computer hardware and highlight a few in their origin.


===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >¿Question 3: What are examples of light/minimalistic publishing low in use of resources?</font></span>===
===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >¿Question 3: How to understand colors?</font></span>===


An overview on projects that are interesting in this topic. For example the Low Tech magazine, with especially the Solar powered website made by Roel Roscam Abbing. Besides reflections on publishing projects I would like to create an overview on existing tools that make design more efficient, such as ImageMagick, Paged.js and other programming instruments.
In this question I would like to delve into the world of pigments and colorants used in publishing techniques. To answer this question I would like to expose the abstract view on colors used in publishing, in inks and common art supplies, to show the distance between the origin of the resources and the consumer (self-publishers). I would like to give an answer on what is cmyk? 


===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >⧼Conclusion⧽</font></span>===
===<span style="text-shadow: 0 0 10.5px black; color:white"; text-decoration: none; >⧼Conclusion⧽</font></span>===


An analyzation and self-reflection on the findings.
An analysis and self-reflection on the findings + reflections and making use of the findings in the end-result of this thesis design.  


==WHY==
==WHY==


To document the role as a self-publisher and its consequences on environmental problems. As a self-publisher I feel the need to research on these consequences and solutions inside the field, tools and reflect for my own design practise, which could be interesting for other self-publishers too.
To document the role as a self-publisher and its consequences on environmental problems. As a self-publisher I feel the need to research on these consequences and solutions inside the field, tools and reflect for my own design practice, which could be interesting for other self-publishers too.


==Methods:==
==Methods:==


Researching for databases, (b)logging self-research in html pages, analyze examples of publishing projects. Searching for existing tools.
Researching for databases, (b)logging self-research in light weight-html pages, analyze examples of publishing projects. Searching for existing tools. Reading a lot of texts.


==Timeline:==
==Timeline:==
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==References:==
==References:==


☯︎ old.artiscreation.com database on pigments and colorants
☯︎1. Trienekens, S., 2020. Participatieve kunst. Gewoon kunst in moeilijke omstandigheden. Rotterdam: V2_Publishing.


☯︎ Het geheime leven van kleuren by Kassia St Clair
☯︎2. Thompson, N., 2017. Living as Form. Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011. Hong Kong: The MIT Press.


☯︎ Colour, making and using dyes and pigments by Thames & Hudson
☯︎3. Cegłowski, M., 2015. The Website Obesity Crisis. [online] Idlewords.com. Available at: <https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm>.


☯︎ Waste, a new media primer by Roberto Simanowski
☯︎4. Gabrys, J., 2014. Powering the Digital: From Energy Ecologies to Electronic Environmentalism. [ebook] New York and London. Available at: <https://www.jennifergabrys.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Gabrys_ElecEnviron_MediaEcol.pdf>.


☯︎ Low Tech magazine: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website.html
☯︎5.Jacobs, R., 2018. ARTONAUTEN, op expeditie in het antropoceen. Rotterdam: V2_Publishing.


☯︎ ImageMagick https://imagemagick.org/index.php
☯︎6.Olof, C., 2017. O, wonder, magazine #1, on green culture. Amsterdam: Drukkerij Raddraaier.
 
☯︎7.Temporary services/ PrintRoom., 2018. What problems can artist publishers solve? Rotterdam:  Temporary services/ PrintRoom.
 
☯︎8. Roscam Abbing, R., 2018. How to build a Low-Tech website: Software & Hardware. [online] homebrewserver.club. Available at: <https://homebrewserver.club/low-tech-website-howto.html>.
 
☯︎9. Myers, D., 2014. The Color of Art: Home - Pigments and Paints. [online] Artiscreation.com. Available at: <https://artiscreation.com/> [Accessed 22 November 2021].
 
☯︎10. St Clair, K. and de Vries, A., 2017. Het geheime leven van kleuren. 9th ed. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff.
 
☯︎11. Delamare, F. and Guineau, B., 2000. Colour. 6th ed. London: Thames Hudson.
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Thesis outline proposal

Invisible environmental impact of publishing

A guide in the shape of a thesis for self-publishers to understand the environmental impact and costs of resources when you publish online & in printed matter. This is a research on the different ways of how self-publishers add to the climate chaos, showing materialistic research on colors used in printing processes and giving an overview in examples in projects exposing the ingredients of their production means to get a grasp on the hidden material side of publishing and how to improve them.

⧼Introduction⧽

In the introduction I will reflect on the three questions of my thesis. Why they are important to me and how they influence the struggles of production in self-publishing. The goal in my thesis is to materialize the publishing techniques I personally use in self-publishing. I choose on purpose to showcase hybrid publishing methods; in digital and printed matter for their similarities in the abstractness of resource use.

¿Question 1: What comes to mind while publishing?

For the first question of my thesis I would like to show and reflect on the rabbit holes of eco friendlier publishing. How do the tools, platforms and materials that I use as a self-publisher have an effect on the carbon footprint? For this I would like to browse through the hidden sides of energy usage, showing the complex systems of the publishing tools I use. To answer this question I focus on the design of the solar powered website that Roel Roscam Abbing developed for Low-Tech magazine. The projects use of dithered images and being designed in plain html opens up a conversation on the ethical use of light web-design in it's storage use.

¿Question 2: How to de-abstract the material side of the digital realms?

To understand better the material side of the digital tools, platforms and media used in publishing it is necessary to understand the physicality of computers in it's resources. When typing on Open Office, using Photoshop or any other digital program it is impossible to understand all the facilities needed to create these tools. To give a little insight in this process I would like to show the most used elements inside computer hardware and highlight a few in their origin.

¿Question 3: How to understand colors?

In this question I would like to delve into the world of pigments and colorants used in publishing techniques. To answer this question I would like to expose the abstract view on colors used in publishing, in inks and common art supplies, to show the distance between the origin of the resources and the consumer (self-publishers). I would like to give an answer on what is cmyk?

⧼Conclusion⧽

An analysis and self-reflection on the findings + reflections and making use of the findings in the end-result of this thesis design.

WHY

To document the role as a self-publisher and its consequences on environmental problems. As a self-publisher I feel the need to research on these consequences and solutions inside the field, tools and reflect for my own design practice, which could be interesting for other self-publishers too.

Methods:

Researching for databases, (b)logging self-research in light weight-html pages, analyze examples of publishing projects. Searching for existing tools. Reading a lot of texts.

Timeline:

↻November/ December. January: Searching, categorize and creating overviews on examples in publishing, tools and databases.

↻December: Reflect on findings and keep a (b)log in the shape of html pages.

↻January: Make try-outs in alternative designs that embody the outcomes of research so far.

↻February/ March: Shape all findings in the form of a guide.

References:

☯︎1. Trienekens, S., 2020. Participatieve kunst. Gewoon kunst in moeilijke omstandigheden. Rotterdam: V2_Publishing.

☯︎2. Thompson, N., 2017. Living as Form. Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011. Hong Kong: The MIT Press.

☯︎3. Cegłowski, M., 2015. The Website Obesity Crisis. [online] Idlewords.com. Available at: <https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm>.

☯︎4. Gabrys, J., 2014. Powering the Digital: From Energy Ecologies to Electronic Environmentalism. [ebook] New York and London. Available at: <https://www.jennifergabrys.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Gabrys_ElecEnviron_MediaEcol.pdf>.

☯︎5.Jacobs, R., 2018. ARTONAUTEN, op expeditie in het antropoceen. Rotterdam: V2_Publishing.

☯︎6.Olof, C., 2017. O, wonder, magazine #1, on green culture. Amsterdam: Drukkerij Raddraaier.

☯︎7.Temporary services/ PrintRoom., 2018. What problems can artist publishers solve? Rotterdam: Temporary services/ PrintRoom.

☯︎8. Roscam Abbing, R., 2018. How to build a Low-Tech website: Software & Hardware. [online] homebrewserver.club. Available at: <https://homebrewserver.club/low-tech-website-howto.html>.

☯︎9. Myers, D., 2014. The Color of Art: Home - Pigments and Paints. [online] Artiscreation.com. Available at: <https://artiscreation.com/> [Accessed 22 November 2021].

☯︎10. St Clair, K. and de Vries, A., 2017. Het geheime leven van kleuren. 9th ed. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff.

☯︎11. Delamare, F. and Guineau, B., 2000. Colour. 6th ed. London: Thames Hudson.