Participatory Livecasting

By Lilian Stolk, November 17, 2022

What can participatory livecasting look like? Is there a playfulness in its future, and a true on- and offline collaboration between the physical world and the virtual one? “At the moment, as an online visitor of a hybrid event, you can just ask a question to the speaker, which may or may not be seen [...]

Minizine: Elements of the Conversation Starter

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 14, 2022

Event reports dream to be conversation starters. How can we make those dreams come true? In the minizine ‘Elements of a Conversation Starter’, the Hybrid Pubs research group maps the types of content that make a report into a conversation starter. Download the zine here, or read the contents below. This minizine was collectively created [...]

New Ways of Reading: Publishing Experiments For All

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 25, 2022

October 25, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm - What cultural and digital strategies could be used to create alternative ways of online publishing, that expand the room for reflection and collectivity? Cultural critical publishing practices require new strategies to respond to the contemporary realities of online media. Manoeuvring between corporate and political powers puts independent publishers in a position that is counterproductive for [...]

Reframe the Network: Parallel Narratives and Media Obsolescence as Post-digital Publishing Practice

By Labor Neunzehn, October 12, 2022

In this article, we try to outline the philosophical and technical background that informs the architecture of our web-based project All Sources Are Broken, an online publishing platform that enables cross-referencing media, as well as an artistic experiment about the archive and the hyperlink obsolescence. We also address the artistic practices that contribute to defining [...]

Workflow Improvements for Hybrid Event Reports

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 12, 2022

Over the past two months, the Going Hybrid Publishing group has convened for two days of design sprints. The discussions we had during these sprints were informed by our previous state-of-the-art analysis and survey of relevant tools and practices. This blog post is a recap of two design sprint days, sharing both process and outcomes. [...]

Relevant Tools & Practices in Hybrid Publishing

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 3, 2022

Seeing the wild amount and variety of experimental publications brought to the world, it is hardly possible to claim that any of them is a ‘best practice’. But some of them are certainly highly interesting in terms of formal experiment, quality, or redefinition of the reading experience. Below, you find an incomplete list of tools [...]

A Living Archive is Also a Dying Archive

By Sofia Boschat-Thorez, September 21, 2022

In early April of 2022, a sub-group of the researchers involved in the Going Hybrid project came together for a first knowledge session, which was also the first physical gathering since the project’s kickoff in January. The session was dedicated to making sense of the term ‘living archives’, a task supported by generous input from [...]

The Crowbar of Cultural Publishing: Introducing the Hybrid Publications Research Group

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 6, 2022

As the digital components of cultural programs become more prominent, cultural organizations are faced with questions usually associated with the publishing industries, ranging from practical obstacles to fundamental issues. How can an artist statement from the catalogue of an exhibition be published on social media and still relate to the spatial experience of the exhibition? [...]

Hybride Cultuur, NFTs en Basisinkomen

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, April 11, 2022

Geert Lovink en Sepp Eckenhaussen gingen op 23 maart in gesprek met Esther van Rosmalen en Roeliena Aukema van Witte Rook over cultuur tijdens corona, hybride events, digitalisering, geld en zelforganisatie. Dit interview werd geïnitieerd door Witte Rook en wordt binnenkort gepubliceerd op https://witterook.nu/. (Esther) Kunnen jullie iets vertellen over jezelf en over het [...]

Towards an Interactive Future

By Laurence Scherz, March 15, 2022

Every since the Covid-19 ‘reset’—a re-evaluation of workflows, business models, and ways in which events are organized—the cultural field has continuously tried to innovate itself, compensating for temporary breaks in programming along with financial losses. Out of this reset, a new attitude was formed regarding digital exhibition formats, live broadcasting, and an overall online presence [...]