As part of a series of language art exhibitions in 2017, the year of documenta 14 (kasselkultur2017.de), Kunsttempel, Kassel, is hosting “p0es1s – postdigital” in partnership with the PublishingLab (Amsterdam). The international exhibition features artists from eight countries who present 16 current positions of language art in a rendition of the Post-Digital Publishing Archive. Following… Read more »
My first college textbook was missing its images. Global Visual & Material Culture was a marvel of post-digital publication gone awry. The textbook was a custom publication made specifically for our course, edited by faculty in collaboration with Pearson Canada. It was essential for the class, and it cost $180. On opening it up, it… Read more »
What is publishing? Is it a professional field, an activity, a function, a button, a phase or a specific moment in the life of publications? Is publishing all these things at once? People like Clay Shirky provide a reductionist idea of publishing that derives from the older truism according to which “everyone is a publisher”:… Read more »
[Interview by Nicolas Nova published in Dadabot – Essay about the hybridization of cultural forms (music, visual arts, literature) produced by digital technologies (Nicolas Nova and Joel Vacheron eds). More info about the publication here.] Nicolas Nova: Can you start with a short description about who you are and how you became interested in new… Read more »
[Essay published in Code—X – Paper, Ink, Pixel and Screen, edited by Danny Aldred and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé.] I began to be interested in Print on demand (POD) while I was doing an internship at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. The INC, founded in 2004 and directed by media theorist Geert Lovink, is a… Read more »
[Transcript of the talk given on October 29th during RWX (Read/Write/eXecute): a three-day worksession and public talks programme curated by Dave Young.] Hello everyone, I’m glad to be here and I’d like to thank Dave Young for providing such a sharp framework to this compelling event. In fact, my intervention will be a sort of… Read more »
Bible (alphabetical order), Rory Macbeth, 1997 By applying one system by which we order and make sense of things (alphabetical order), to another that is wide open to interpretation (the Bible), we are left with bugger-all, apart from some pretty patterns, but in a minimal, texty way, so it looks like art. Alphabetized Bible, Tauba… Read more »
Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti are both students from ISIA Urbino, where they attend the Master Course in Design for Publishing. They are currently investigating the independent side of digital archiving practices within the scope of the publishing world. As part of their research, they asked some questions to Janneke Adema, who is Research Fellow… Read more »
PediaPress, 2007 “PediaPress.com is an online service that lets you create customized books from wiki content. Simply add any articles you like into a Collection, and then click to order them as a paperback book. Covers, a table of contents, a detailed index and a list of figures are generated automatically, and the books are… Read more »
[Published in Printed Web 3, edited by Paul Soulellis, 2015.] This text pays homage to “In Defense of the Poor Image”, an essay in which German artist and writer Hito Steyerl (2009) speaks of the kind of “charge” that the poor image – an image that “has been uploaded, downloaded, shared, reformatted, and reedited” –… Read more »
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