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, in which first MMDC years students developed documentation projects that portraited or responded to the graduation works from the second year's students. 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. As an outcome we'll challenge students to conceive and implement an electronic publication for the works developed under the context of the documentation project.
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.
Page dedicated to brainstorming, planning and preparation of the thematic
Topics
Distribution Networks
MONDAY
10:00-11:30 Introduction Annet and Andre
11:30-12:30 Aymeric Mansoux - Novel forms of distribution: cultural diffusion of proto free and free culture (undefined notions of access, freedom and public).
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Amy Wu - Fanzines and underground networks of publications' distribution.
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-17:30 Practice
17:30-18:30 Dinner break
18:30-22:30 Films
Introduction / comments by Martino Morandi (t.b.c.)
Francoise Levie, The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World (2002) - 60 min
Ben Lewis, Google and the World Brain (2012) - 90 min
Pre-reading - for morning assignment
Dick Hebdige, Subculture: the meaning of style (chapter one, from culture to hegemony, pp.5-19) http://www.erikclabaugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/181899847-Subculture.pdf
Ferdinand Tönnies, Community and Civil Society (Book one, the argument, pp.17-21) http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511816260&cid=CBO9780511816260A016&tabName=Chapter
Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony, Radical Democracy and the Political (Part III, for an agonistic model of democracy, pp.191-206)
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Pre-reading - for afternoon practice
From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/from-print-to-ebooks-a-hybrid-publishing-toolkit-for-the-arts/ http://networkcultures.org/digitalpublishing/
Additional reading (not required, yet recommended)
Vannevar Bush. As We May Think. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ original article scan
Aymeric Mansoux. How Deep is Your Source. http://texts.bleu255.com/how-deep-is-your-source/
Writing the Archive
TUESDAY
10:30-11:30 Introduction Annet and Andre
11:30-12:30 Sandra Fauconnier - Writing Wikimedia
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Michael Murtaugh - Active Archives; Erkki Kurenniemi: In 2048
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-17:30 Practice
17:30-18:30 Dinner break
18:30-20:30 Continue Practice
20:30-21:30 Films / shorts (t.b.c.)
Selection of interviews http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/digital-cultures-research-lab/projects/dcrl-questions/
Pre-reading - for morning assignment
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
Lori Emerson. Reading Writing Interface: from the digital to the bookbound. (Introduction, Chapter 4 - The Fascicle as Process and Product) (link soon)
Matthew Fuller, It looks like you're writing a letter: Microsoft, in: Behind the Blip. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0009/msg00040.html
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Additional reading (not required, yet recommended)
Michel Foucault, What is an author? http://www.movementresearch.org/classesworkshops/melt/Foucault_WhatIsAnAuthor.pdf
Matthew Kirschenbaum, What Is an @uthor? https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/uthor
Digital & Hybrid Publishing
WEDNESDAY
10:30-11:30 Introduction Annet and Andre
11:30-12:30 Florian Cramer - Off-line digital reading (t.b.c.)
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Pia Pool - Digital publishing for publishers
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-17:30 Practice
17:30-18:30 Dinner break
Pre-reading - for morning assignment
Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (chapters 1,2,3) http://monoskop.org/images/b/bf/Hayles_N_Katherine_Writing_Machines.pdf
Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists' Books. ( Chapters 1 - The artist's Book as Idea and Form, 7 - Self-reflexivity in book Form) in WdKA library
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Additional reading (not required, yet recommended)
Friedrich Kittler, Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter - chapter 3 Typewriter
Alessandro Ludovico Post-Digital Print. http://monoskop.org/images/a/a6/Ludovico%2C_Alessandro_-_Post-Digital_Print._The_Mutation_of_Publishing_Since_1894.pdf
Video: Books in Browsers 2014: Johanna Drucker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz9aELG8aQs
Examples
Electronic Literature & Its Emerging Forms: http://dtc-wsuv.org/elit/elit-loc/works/
http://collection.eliterature.org/1/ http://collection.eliterature.org/2/
Silvio Lorusso, Post-Digital Publishing Archive: http://p-dpa.net/
I love e-Poetry: http://iloveepoetry.com/