Medieval Monastery Book Helpdesk (2007) Penny Arcade — Progress, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins (2009) Did you know the BOOK?, PopularLibros.com (2010) Experience the power of a bookbook™, IKEA Singapore (2014)
Recently published by Revolver, War postdigital besser? was edited and designed by writer and artist Martin Conrads and graphic designer Franziska Morlok. The book includes texts by Verena Kuni, Jan Distelmeyer, Manuel Bürger, Clemens Jahn, Nina Franz and a conversation among Danny Aldred, Kristoffer Gansing and Siegfried Zielinski. As a result of a seminar held… Read more »
[Originally appeared in The Message on Sep 2, 2014.] Publish everything everywhere. Anything anywhere. Publish twice, thrice, just don’t break the contract if you got paid.Copy the bits, it’s what they want. Data wanna be free. Call the Archive Team. Call the Internet Archive. Call the Library of Congress. Ask them for your tweets, Christmas… Read more »
[Transcript of the talk delivered during “The Aesthetics of the Humanities: Towards a Poetic Knowledge Production” seminar, Coventry University — June 11th 2014] Hello everybody, first of all, I’d like to thank Janneke Adema, Gary Hall and Coventry University for giving me the chance to present my current research in such an inspiring context. Today… Read more »
(The original version of this article, written in Italian, was originally published in the catalog of Fahrenheit 39 – 4th Edition.) Publishing and the Public While referring to a specific professional field, the term “publishing” puts emphasis on the act of making things public. Each facet of this practice has undergone radical transformations as a… Read more »
Recently, I stumbled upon a Tumblr blog titled Every Item in the Artists’ Books Collection. The collection to which the blog refers is the one located at the The Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives of The Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada), including over 4,000 artists’ books and multiples. As expressed by its title, the goal… Read more »
Publishing today is practiced in an interconnected world at an unprecedented level of complexity. Publishers have to be mindful of the symbiotics of physical, digital, social, cultural, technological, and economic factors, in addition to poetical/aesthetical concerns. Relational publishing is preoccupied with publishing’s effects, extending beyond the form of the publishing object and its attendant meanings… Read more »
Jesse England is an artist and educator “working with contemporary media concerns”. The several media he explores are profoundly diverse: from Iphone covers to prototypal devices able to record moving images on paper. In doing so, he often seems to debunk the linearity of technological progress, as it is conceived by common sense (e.g. book>e-book)…. Read more »
During the month of November I had the honour and pleasure to do a residency at Constant Variable (Brussels): a [house] «for artists, designer, techno-inventors, data-activists, cyber feminists, interactive-geeks, textile-hackers, video-makers, sound-lovers, beat-makers and other digital creators who are interested in using Free Libre Open Source Software for their creative experiments». Among other things, I’ve… Read more »
For the 2013 edition of the London Design Festival, communication and interaction design studio Six:Thirty realized Collate, a physical installation at the V&A Museum consisting of a series of touchscreens that brought visitors together in the creation of an image-based catalogue. During the nine days of the festival, visitors had the chance to: select and… Read more »
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