Posts By: jakubdutka

Alessandro Ludovico – Networks as agents in the clash between personal and industrial post-digital print

By jakubdutka, May 28, 2014

Alessandro Ludovico, the author of Post-Digital Print, The Mutation Of Publishing Since 1894, is an Italian media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine (http://neural.it/) since 1993, for which he received an honorary mention of the Prix Ars Electronica 2004. He has published and edited several books, and has lectured worldwide. He’s one of the [...]

Oliver Wise – Making .epubs easy with The People’s E-book

By jakubdutka, May 28, 2014

Oliver Wise, together with Eleanor Hanson are the co-founders of The Present Group, a creative studio creating affordable and sustainable models for funding artists. In their first three years, their subscription art project has channeled over $20,000 toward funding artist projects, stipends, and development of critical essays. In May 2010 they began a web hosting [...]

Sebastian Luetgert – Precarious Publishing, Autonomous Archiving, Collaborative Collecting

By jakubdutka, May 28, 2014

Sebastian Luetgert, a.k.a. Robert Luxemburg, is a theorist and media artist, copyleft advocate, programmer, writer, co-moderator of nettime, member of mikro and Bootlab. His projects include rolux.org, textz.com, project Gutenberg, and Last Tuesday, where people can “exchange mp3 files, beta-test new viruses from Asia or vote for the most stupid new dot-com brand.”. He is [...]

Miriam Rasch – Hybrid Workflows for Hybrid Publishing

By jakubdutka, May 28, 2014

Miriam Rasch, a co-editor (together with René König) of INC Reader #9, Society of the Query: Reflections on Web Search, presented the workflow she and her colleagues followed while working on the Reader. The Institute of Network Cultures project group involved: Joost Kircz, Silvio Lorusso, Michael Murtaugh, and Kimmy Spreeuwenberg. Miriam described their creative process following [...]

André Castro – “Bibliotecha”

By jakubdutka, May 27, 2014

The last session of Off the Press was opened by André Castro, who introduced participants to the Bibliotecha project. André is a sound artist from Lisbon, currently living in Rotterdam. He completed the Master’s program of Media Design and Communication at the Piet Zwart Institute in 2013, and graduated in 2007 from the Sonic Arts BA [...]

Joaquín González – Setting up an art digital book store, or ‘Working out how to do something is better than waiting for a magic formula’

By jakubdutka, May 27, 2014

Joaquín González is the executive director of visualMANIAC, a Madrid-based, independent distributor of digital books and magazines. visualMANIAC specialises in publications from the domain of art, design, photography and architecture. Their books are accessible on iPads, Androids and computers. As Joaquín remarked at the very beginning of the session, when he bought an iPad back in [...]

Michelle Kasprzak – The eBook as a Vehicle for Re-dissemination and Creation

By jakubdutka, May 27, 2014

Michelle Kasprzak, curator at V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, introduced participants of Off the Press to the creation of an e-book series aimed to complement the events run by V2_. Michelle begun by briefly outlining the history and activities of the institute. The Institute for the Unstable Media started in 1981 as [...]