User:Ada/SI21

week 1

urgency objective = possible futures by looking at the past, imagined technical futures.

week 2 | inscriptions

aymeric lecture

At the end of this we will know what experimental publishing is, unpacking different elements of THE sentence:

"XPUB focuses on the acts of making public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks :)"

-three elements: making public, creating publics and post-digital networks

making public

scientific explanation = transmission of signal, about sharing information.

artistic explanation = artistic medium, paint, ceramic, writing

there is a myth that actual carrying of information belongs to mass-media related activities. the distinction is not so simple."Against Expression", collection of writing as an artistic medium, Nemerov, First my Motorola (an example of something beyond the dichotomy). When you try to understand making public in terms of media/medium, you see it as both carrier of information and artistic medium. in practice, what you get to do at XPUB is the space in between.

intertextuality = essentially how text can refer to other by appropriation, absorbing / hyper-textuality = systems created by text interacting with each other / and para-textuality = how text can be influenced by other text, things that affect how you interpret the text.

mediality = whatever can be said about the text can be applied to whatever medium.

creating publics vs collective practices

production of unwanted knowledge, that nobody has asked for, no agenda and no value. if you talk about this from a fine-art perspective people will come after you because you are talking about the usefulness of art.

=intention, agenda, usefulness, purpose becomes ideology and politics. aesthetization of politics in art school

- the question of production has become more important for him. cultural entrepreneurship appears on the scene, the mechanism driving the development of art and design academies. bourgeois vs. marxist approach (looking at how things are produced!). we can produce art and design with radical politics in their content but that challenge nothing, just give the illusion that there is some sort of autonomy. this way, the politics is the way it is produced and distributed instead of the content. the trap nowadays is that it is okay to be political within the given production framework, when you try to do things differently it becomes harder. like a piece of music that has been made in a way that challenges collective dimension or mode of production rather than one that talks about politics.

post-digital networks

post-digital = digitality and new media, constantly moving to new frontiers. digital revolution hangover happens in the late 2000s realising that the promises were not changing society so much. going further than the digital not changinging, to a refusal to only engage with digital practices.step out from the consumerist aspect of the latest is the greatest and pick the medium even if old.

-entanglement, situatedness, bootstrapping (chains of dependencies).