On Wednesday January 23 2013 INC’s Francesca Coluzzi and René König presented at the Brown Bag Lunch sessions of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.

Graphic Designer and visual artist Francesca Coluzzi from Italy worked on the Out of Ink project for the last 5 months as a research intern at the Institute of Network Cultures. In her presentation at the Brown Bag Lunch she talked about the digital shift in publishing and the role of art and design concerning the book as a medium and the book as a culture. “What will the book look like in the future?” was her main research question. With a lot of artistic examples and interviews with experts she tried to find answers to questions like: ‘Do we write and read differently on digital devices’, ‘what is a ‘reading’ experience?’, and ‘can design and art contribute to the development of digital publishing and how?’. The presentation is recorded and can be viewed here. More info about the Out of Ink project is availabe on the website: https://networkcultures.org/outofink/

René König is a sociologist doing PHD researching at Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. For the last couple of months he worked at the Institute of Network Cultures on the Society of the Query project and the planning a second conference later this year on search engines, Google and alternatives. In his presentation for the Brown Bag Lunch he elaborated on different topics concerning search, like personalization & localization, Googlization, law issues, regulations and alternatives to Google, non-Western perspectives to search, and education aspects. His presentation can be viewed here and more information about the Society of the Query can be found on: https://networkcultures.org/re-search/