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 [...]

Off the Press, Electronic Publishing in the Arts is the...

Off the Press – Report Day I

By ariealtena, May 27, 2014

Off the Press, Electronic Publishing in the Arts is the third one in a series on the state of electronic publishing that started with the Unbound Book (http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unboundbook/), and was more recently followed by the presentation of the research of The Publishing Toolkit at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam in november 2013. A disclosure of my [...]

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 [...]

Tools and Workshops The second day of Off the Press...

Off the Press – Report Day II

By ariealtena, May 27, 2014

Tools and Workshops The second day of Off the Press starts with workshops. I decide to go to the workshop about pandoc first, as it promises to be about a way of working with text that I am not used to, but have started to like. When I started to use computers, in 1991 there [...]

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 [...]

Arjen de Jong: Sketching skills

By Andre Castro, May 27, 2014

De Jong is a visual designer for design agency Essense and a member of BIS Publishers, both located in Amsterdam. He attended the conference “Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts” as a representative of the latter and shared the production process of two of their recent e-publications. The first case study he presented [...]

Matthew So: Badlands Unlimited: We Make Books in an Expanded Field

By patricia, May 27, 2014

Matthew So handles sales, distribution and inventory operations at Badlands Unlimited. Founded in 2010 Badlands Unlimited publishes e-books, paper books, prints and artist works in digital and print forms, and even one book in stone, on a range of topics that do not cover specific genres. Their publications, So explained, render the dissolving distinction between [...]

Loes Sikkes: Highlights – EPub Personalizer

By patricia, May 27, 2014

The Rotterdam-based graphic designer Loes Sikkes of Medamo, consortium partner of the Digital Publishing Toolkit, presents the Highlights research project on which she worked together with nai010 Publishers and PUNTPIXEL. Sikkes observed that digital versions of hard copy publications are often not more than that: a digital, oftentimes a PDF format, of the analogue publication. [...]

Pia Pol: Digitizing Context Without Walls, Creating EPubs Through the EPubster Generator

By patricia, May 27, 2014

The publishing house Valiz publishes Context Without Walls (CWW), a series of book publications focused on the work of artists from all over the world. The books in this series are multilingual, rich in images and text, and the design is meticulous. From the first publication in this series, Common Skin, Valiz and their designers [...]