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Digital Publishing Toolkit
Society of the Query #2: 7-8 November, 2013
Out now: Florian Cramer – Anti-Media
Unlike Us: Videos, blogs and conference report online
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Digital Publishing Toolkit
Since the beginning of this year a RAAK MKB project started out conducting research in digital publications for the art and culture sector. The rise of tablets and smartphones has accelerated the development of digital publications and by now these publications – e-books, newspaper apps and digital magazines – are forever part of our media landscape. More and more people use mobile devices to read books and magazines and the coming years this way of information processing will dominate the market. Publishers can’t stay behind in relation to digital publishing. However, many publishers in the art and cultural sector are unfamiliar with these developments. They do not have the knowledge, resources and capacities to develop new methods of digital publishing and participate in the digital market. This project will provide on the one hand a “How-to Document” as a sort of manual, and on the other a “Software Toolkit” that will be compiled from both existing and self-written utilities.
Together with the Knowledge center Creating 010 of the Hogeschool van Rotterdam, Institute of Network Cultures (lectortaat Netwerkcultuur) of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences are executing this state-of-the-art research. In collaboration with an already existing consortium of eleven MKB-companies consisting of publishers, designers and developers, a fivesome subprojects are formulated.
For more information about the project and the fivesome subprojects please have a look at the website of the project: Digital Publishing Toolkit.
The design of the identity of the project has been made by Mooijman&Mittelberg.
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Society of the Query #2: 7-8 November, 2013
This fall the Institute of Network Cultures invites you to the second Society of the Query conference on search and search engines, 7 and 8 November in Amsterdam. With international speakers and topics ranging from Google domination, Search across the border, to theoretical reflection and context moving beyond the filter bubble, we intend to give new energy to the discussion on search and search engines. In early 2014 this will result in the publication of the Society of the Query Reader.
The Society of the Query project started in 2009 with a conference, mailing list and research blog. While these efforts have contributed to a better understanding of the impact of search engines, many open questions remain. Moreover, dynamics in the field have led to new questions: How does the rise of the social web affect search engines and the practices around them? Which consequences do innovations like personalization, localization or autocomplete have? How can we re-think the established search routines?
Keep an eye on the website for more information.
You can also subscribe to the [re-search] mailinglist.
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Out now: Florian Cramer – Anti-Media. Studies in Network Cultures
Florian Cramer, lecturer at the Rotterdam based Willem de Kooning Academy, demonstrates in his new collection of essays Anti-Media, how media and art critique constantly reflect on their own tradition, language and manifestations, while at the same time trying to subvert them.
In the essays Cramer presents and analyzes a wide range of subcultures – from Internet porn to neo-Nazi’s and anti-copyright activists – and offers a critical view on their imagery and poetry, plagiarism and automatisms.
Cramer asserts that art coexists with ‘anti-art’, and that the term ‘media’ is just as vague, or unfixed, as is ‘art’. Even so, both ‘art’ and ‘media’ resist elimination, and this is why the author introduces the term ‘anti-media’. Anti-media is what remains when people eliminate the concept of media – whether old or new – yet fail to discard it.
In this spirited collection of essays, Anti-Media, Florian Cramer discusses a thought-provoking variety of topics that come together in an unexpected manner. The topics range from internet art, pop culture and 17th century poetry, to electronic literature, amateurism, post-digitality, Rotterdam and Rosicrucians. Anti-Media proposes that high, low and subcultures can no longer be separated from each other, and that this also holds for the extent to which they refer to each other.
Check the publication page for more information.
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Unlike Us: Videos, blogs and conference report online
Looking for something to read and watch during the summer months? Catch up on the Unlike Us #3 conference held 22-23 March in Amsterdam. On our website you can download the conference report with all the blogposts collected, watch back videos of all the talks, read the Unlike Us Reader, or download the (Dutch) Unlike Us iPad Magazine.
Have fun!
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