Out Now: APRIA #3 – Urgent Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, October 12, 2021

Edited by Miriam Rasch and Nishant Shah. With contributions from Florian Cramer, Labor Neunzehn, Miriam Rasch and Paul Soulellis. Published by ArtEZ Press and APRIA: ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts. Download the print issue here. Publishing can be a slow business—frustratingly so when you want to participate in societal debates that evolve [...]

Print-On-Demand Reflections: Publit vs. Lulu

By Marijn Bril, March 2, 2021

When it comes to printing a book, Print-On-Demand (POD) is an interesting option. However, there is a lot to consider to get the print right and end up with the book you have in mind. The book Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities by Isabel Löfgren is published [...]

‘Counter speed with a blossoming of un-immediacy’: interview on Urgent Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, June 25, 2020

For their upcoming podcast series where researchers in the ARIAS network talk about their projects, Morgane Billuart and Katie Clarke asked me to introduce Making Public and the urgent publishing concept and to explain why publishing research is needed. The transcript is shared below, stay tuned for the audio recording! — The world is an [...]

Special issue Urgent Publishing Debris @ Pervasive Labour Union zine

By Miriam Rasch, June 19, 2020

Making Public teamed up with Lídia Pereira of Pervasive Labour Union zine after the Urgent Publishing conference to make a special issue that would move far beyond the known realms of ‘conference proceedings’. What happens if you shift focus from the official reports and try to include the ‘debris’ left after an event, in the [...]

Making Public Presents the Urgent Publishing Toolkit and Publication

By Barbara Dubbeldam, June 9, 2020

What strategies are available to publishers in the cultural and research domains to conceive, produce, and position their contents in an urgent way? In the two-year research project Making Public (2018-2020) conducted by the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and partners, which has come to a close, methods and [...]

Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing

By Barbara Dubbeldam, May 20, 2020

Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing presents the results of the Making Public project, led by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with 1001 Publishers, Amateur Cities, Amsterdam University Press, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Hackers & Designers, Mind Design, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Open!, Open Set, Puntpixel, Studio BLT, Valiz, and Willem de Kooning Academy.

Urgent Publishing Toolkit

By Miriam Rasch, May 14, 2020

Find all the tools and methods that were developed during the Making Public project here: Urgent Publishing Toolkit The final publication is available in print and pdf here: Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing Parazine is a tool that allows you to recontextualize existing academic content. It scrapes the content from an online academic [...]

Platform 2 Platform: the Matching Algorithm

By afincato, April 17, 2020

Brief explanation The Platform 2 Platform prototype is composed of two layers: a database collecting the articles from the connected publishers, and a matching algorithm to suggest connections between them. A third layer is added to this by editors reviewing the algorithmic suggestions and deciding if those links are meaningful or not. While the first [...]

Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis for download

By Miriam Rasch, April 14, 2020

Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis, which is edited and produced by Paul Soulellis, began with a 10-day open call that was announced on March 18, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for work was motivated by two desires: 1—to collectively document some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions [...]

Clickbait Revisited

By Silvio Lorusso, March 2, 2020

by Silvio Lorusso and Ania Molenda Within the Platforms group three independent online publishers: Amateur Cities, Online Open! and Open Set, have been developing a prototype of an algorithmic tool allowing small online publishing platforms to federate and expand readership. The tool, which we called Platform 2 Platform, establishes relations between the content (including articles, [...]