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Announcement: The Post-Digital Scholar Conference

By margreet riphagen, September 3, 2014

Publishing between Open Access, Piracy and Public Spheres 12.11. – 14.11.2014 | Lüneburg, Germany New media is dead! Long live new media! For three days, publishers, researchers, programmers, designers, artists, and entrepreneurs will discuss how research and publishing in the humanities have changed over the past decade. The conference will explore new tools for gathering [...]

John Haltiwanger: Free Your Objects (And Let The Subject Follow)

By Andre Castro, June 10, 2014

A post by Mathijs Weijers John Haltiwanger was the third speaker of session 2, which focused on publishing workflows, tools and platforms. His talk aimed to give the audience a better understanding of the recent work of Gilbert Simondon on cybernetics theory. Simonodon’s work shines a new perspective on Norbert Wiener’s theory of cybernetics, originally [...]

Joost Kircz: Going Electronic

By Andre Castro, June 5, 2014

A post by Mathijs Weijers Joost Kircz was the first speaker of the 2-day conference “Off the Press – Electronic Publishing in the Arts”, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures. From 2006 till 2013, Kircz was a part-time lecturer on electronic publishing within the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam), and currently [...]

Angie Keefer is a writer, artist, and co-founder of The...

Angie Keefer: The difference between the two

By Andre Castro, May 29, 2014

Angie Keefer is a writer, artist, and co-founder of The Serving Library, along with David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey of Dexter Sinister. The Serving Library, as described by Keefer, is a cooperatively-built archive that assembles itself by publishing means. It first releases e-publications of the artworks and texts of various artists under PDF format, for [...]

Dušan Barok: Communing Texts

By Andre Castro, May 28, 2014

Publishing in the humanities holds many unrealized potentials online, argues Dušan Barok, the artist, writer and cultural activist who founded Monoskop (a wiki for art, culture and media technology). The Internet is not just a medium to distribute, store and manage e-books, he continues, but is in itself a medium that dictates specific means of reading [...]

Marcell Mars: Free access to resources for every member of society

By Andre Castro, May 28, 2014

The final session of the “Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in Arts” conference approached another side of the e-publishing field, namely what happens after the e-books are launched: where do we distribute, store and manage them? In traditional publishing, perhaps the most iconic actor to play this role is the public library. However, as Mars [...]

Conference report: Off the Press

By margreet riphagen, May 28, 2014

During the conference OFF THE PRESS: ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING IN THE ARTS, a comprehensive conference report has been written by Arie Altena. The full report can be downloaded here: Or read online: part 1 and part 2.

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 [...]