Er zijn twee nieuwe recensies geschreven over 'I Read Where I Am': een in Frieze en een in Gonzo. Beide artikelen (pdf) staan op de website van Valiz en zijn te vinden via onderstaande links.
Interview with Astrid Vorstermans and Pia Pol, publishers of Valiz
By , posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:35 pm, under Interviews, Valiz, tagged amsterdam, astrid vorstermans, pia po, valiz.
INC: How do you select what you publish?
Astrid: The program concentrates on contemporary art, linked to social or cultural topics. 80 percent of what we publish is provided by people coming to us. New content often develops from a network of people who link up to what we're doing. 20 percent or more is initiated by ourselves, and we try to look for people who fit in with these plans. But these are often from the same network, and it's growing and moving all the time, an organic group of people who fit that subject or not.
Interview with Alexandre Leray, Eduard Martínez Piracés, Eric Schrijver, Femke Snelting and Stéphanie Vilayphiou of Open Source Publishing
By , posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:27 pm, under Digital Matter, Interviews, Open Source Publishing, Printed Matter, tagged brussels, collaboration, computational aestethic, design, femke snelting, FLOSS, google books, libre graphic, open source, typography.
Open Source Publishing is a design collective – or “caravan” – based in Brussels, but it includes people from all over the world. It was founded in 2006 and now it can even count on a second generation. OSP focuses on – just to mention a few things – free software culture, type design as a collaborative practice, tools’ intimacy. Read More
Hot100 2011 at PICNIC
By , posted on September 23, 2011 at 5:19 pm, under Resources, tagged hot100, picnic, valiz, virtueel platform.
For the fifth time, Virtueel Platform hosted the HOT100 sessions at the PICNIC Festival 2011 (14-16 Sept). HOT100 is a full day of lectures, masterclasses, workshops and networking opportunities for the most talented alumni from e-culture programs across the Netherlands. During this workshop INC and Publisher Valiz were one of the caseholders to bring up a strategic question to be answered by the HOT100's. This question directly comes out of the research initiative: Out of Ink, Future Publishing Industries.
"What does the future hold for the Digital Publishing Industries?"
Watch here the videoreport of the inspiring afternoon.
about the event: The HOT100 is Virtueel Platform's special talent program for new graduates in e-culture curricula. E-culture includes the fairly recent disciplines of interaction design, game design, media and electronic arts, and social media communication in parallel with digitally informed processes and artefacts from older cultural disciplines such as architecture, film and performing arts.
HOT100 during PICNIC brings together and highlights the most promising 2011 graduates from Dutch art academies, universities and universities of applied science in the fields of design, arts, theory, communication or development skills.
HOT100 also connects this upcoming generation with more established organisations and institutions that undertake interesting work in the field of e-culture. In the afternoon seven strategic questions and issues will be presented to the HOT100 by the VPRO, the Amsterdam Public Library (OBA), the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Dropstuff with NIMk and Hermen Maat, the Institute of Network Cultures with publisher Valiz, NOSop3 and Virtueel Platform itself. These questions serve as case studies in seven pressure cooker workshops that should lead to design solutions or input for new operational directions for the questioners. Later in the year all these organisations will invite the HOT100 graduates to visit to their workplaces and see what has happened with their input.
credits: Moderator: Joep Kuijper. Caseholders: Publisher Valiz, Pia Pol and INC. Camera and editing: Versch Vet, Anke Noorman. Camera: Silvio Lorusso. Virtueel Platform, Merel Willemsen and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer.
special thanks: René Bosch | self employed artist and photographer | www.renebosch.com
Vera van der Lubbe | gamer and loves to sing
Inge Maassen | freelance web & graphic designer, usability | www.mrswhite.nl
Inge Nahuis | communication and multimedia designer | www.ingenahuis.nl
Jeroen Peeters | interdisciplinary designer | www.jeroenpeeters.com
Anja Schenkels | creative internet and multimedia expert who loves to write
Billy Schonenberg | design is storytelling | www.billy.nl
Stefan Terwijn | developing interactive children's books | miraclebooks.blogspot.com
Daniel van der Zeeuw (A.K.A. Varvaras) | Conspiracy theorist and para politician | www.varvaras.net
KALEIDOSCOPE #12 – THE STATE OF THE ART BOOK
By , posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:59 pm, under Digital Matter, Printed Matter, tagged Abake, book, nina beier.
Kaleidoscope #12 the issue features a 30-pages survey on the topic of the artist books, including a conversation between JRP|Ringer director Lionel Bovier and Printed Matter’s AA Bronson, an essay by Kaleidoscope Editor-at-Large Chris Sharp on the role of the book in contemporary artistic practices, a conversation between London-based graphic design studio Åbäke and Birmingham Eastside Project’s director Gavin Wade, an interview with Tate Modern director Chris Dercon on his book archive, and a special project by Berlin-based artist Nina Beier.
Interview with Jan de Jong, founder of Uitgeverij De Buitenkant
By , posted on September 18, 2011 at 11:57 am, under De Buitenkant, Interviews, Printed Matter, tagged amsterdam, books, graphic design, pod, print on demand, publishing, typesetting, typography.
Based in Amsterdam, Uitgeverij De Buitenkant has a long tradition in books about graphic design and typography. Jan de Jong, the founder of this half publishing house, half typesetting and printing laboratory, described his vision of the publishing industry's future and gave us some clues on what is a book. Read More
Interview with Paul Ashton, co-founder of re.press
By , posted on September 13, 2011 at 9:43 am, under Digital Matter, Interviews, Printed Matter, re.press, tagged andrew mcqualter, book, cover art, Creative Commons, design, Open Access, paul ashton, philosophy, re.press.
re.press is a publishing house based in Melbourne primarily devoted to contemporary philosophy. The conscious employment of the new dissemination possibilities offered by the internet is what makes re.press different from other publishing houses in the field. Every academic book published by re.press is available as an open-access file, while the physical version is produced via print on demand services, minimizing the cost and at the same time increasing the network. Paul Ashton, co-founder of re.press, explained to us in details how re.press works and why such model was adopted.
Interview with Nina Post, director of Post Editions
By , posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:47 am, under Interviews, Post Editions, Printed Matter, tagged art, book, graphic design, magazine, nina post, photography.
Nina Post runs her publishing house mainly by herself. Her love for all kinds of books led to her involvement in publishing, even though she has no official specialization in art or photography. Post Editions is quite new, but Nina’s experience dates back to 1992 when she started to work at 010 Publishers. In 2002 she became publisher at Episode, and after a split from Episode Publishers in 2009 she started again, by founding Post Editions. Read More
Bernard Duplat & Étienne Mineur – Éditions Volumiques
By , posted on September 11, 2011 at 8:17 pm, under Digital Matter, Printed Matter, Resources, tagged book, game, interactive, smartphone, software.
The Night of the Living Dead Pixels - Graphical book with multiple combinatorial reading possibilities
Les éditions volumiques is a publishing house focusing on the paper book as a new computer platform, as well as a research lab on book, (computational) paper, reading and their relation to new technologies. Read More