The Hmm, MU, and Affect Lab launch ‘Toolkit for the In-Between’

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 21, 2023

The Toolkit is an online space full of experimental experiences, fresh examples, and multidisciplinary knowledge on hybrid events. It is a means to inspire the cultural sector to produce creative hybrid events and get them started in this inbetween space, connecting online and on-site audiences. Contrary to what you might expect, this toolkit does not [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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