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 [...]

A Hybrid Start

By Laurence Scherz, March 10, 2022

And so it begins… With a hybrid kick-off on January 19th the long-term research project Going Hybrid, which will continue until December 2023, has entered its initial phase: figuring out what exactly ‘hybrid’ means to all of us as partners, and for the cultural field in general, as well as mapping out best and worst [...]