Posts By: Miriam Rasch

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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

From Modularity to Relationality: Other Forms of Writing, Thinking & Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, January 27, 2020

Thought can be structured in different ways, just like the web itself – it can be centralized, decentralized or distributed. The way of structuring impacts thought itself, which is why such structures deserve more attention than they usually receive. We need to be working on our thoughts. In our research group we try to make [...]

New Formats for Online and Hybrid Quality Content: Best Practices /end

By Miriam Rasch, July 9, 2019

The last in our series reviewing best practices for publishing research information for a broad audience focuses on formats. Which experimental formats pushing quality are noteworthy? Of course, this is an open question which demands more consideration than just a short blogpost, so please consider the post as a collection of some general notes and [...]

More Best Practices: Strategies for Positioning your Publication

By Miriam Rasch, June 13, 2019

In Making Public we investigate how the publishing process can be enhanced using digital tools and methods, with a focus on speed, positioning, and quality. After presenting some best practices that deal primarily with the question of speed, and the comparative tools analysis part 1 and part 2, here I will look into examples that [...]

Project partner ArtEZ launches new artistic research platform APRIA

By Miriam Rasch, June 12, 2019

APRIA The new journal and platform APRIA (ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts) has been launched! ArtEZ Press and ArtEZ Studium Generale have created this open access platform for ArtEZ University of the Arts for researchers, students and artists looking for depth within their own field and beyond. APRIA Journal The platform hosts [...]

Automated speech recognition system job interview on the phone: A story script

By Miriam Rasch, June 11, 2019

The following was used as an introduction to the Urgent Publishing workshop Say It Ain’t So, by Amy Pickles and Cristina Cochior. We’re very happy to publish it here. Setting Amy has a phone interview with you all, about our workshop today. Collectively, you are an AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, C. How to read The [...]