Readers & Publishers aims to bridge the gap between the arts and publishing

By Kelly Mostert, May 27, 2019

To bridge the gap between the arts and publishing the platform Readers & Publishers was launched earlier this year at the Printing Plant Book Fair in Amsterdam. Writers and readers writing from an artistic background are connected to publishers who publish on these topics. We spoke to Cristina Garriga, who initiated the project. 1. Can [...]

All Sources Are Broken, a workshop by Labor Neunzehn (Report)

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2019

On the final day of the Urgent Publishing conference, Labor Neunzehn run the workshop “All Sources Are Broken”. Founded by Valentina Besegher and Alessandro Massobrio, Labor Neunzehn is an artist-run space located in Berlin and multidisciplinarily engaged in expanded cinema, modern music, publishing, and the critical reflection in media art. Alessandro and Valentina introduced the [...]

Visualizing a publication’s parts and elements and the relationships in between

By Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, May 21, 2019

Testing a manual for a modular publishing process. What are the implications of modularity for the various steps in the publishing process and the resulting ‘stand-alone object’? This was the research question one of the Making Public subgroups started out investigating. As a midway result, we developed and tested a manual that focuses on the [...]

Federated Publishing: Roel Roscam Abbing in conversation with Florian Cramer (Report)

By Silvio Lorusso, May 20, 2019

Urgent Publishing report by Silvio Lorusso. Lunch session on 17-05-19. Federated Publishing: Roel Roscam Abbing in conversation with Florian Cramer (Report)

Schermwegen: over digitale literatuur

By Miriam Rasch, May 8, 2019

Voor de presentatie van de Literatuur op het scherm-projecten van het Letterenfonds en Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, schreef ik een essay over digitale literatuur. Als in digitale literatuur vorm en inhoud evenzeer samen op gaan als in ‘papieren’ literatuur, wat zegt dat dan over het digitale én over het literaire? Het essay is in zijn geheel [...]

Unpublishing: A Problem of Access

By Miriam Rasch, April 2, 2019

By Nadine Rotem-Stibbe Unpublish – ‘make content that has previously been published online unavailable to the public’. A stark reminder that this is easier said than done comes from the Oxford Dictionary: ‘Once the images have been published on the internet it will be practically impossible for any court order to unpublish them.’ And: ‘After [...]

Library Stack: connecting (hybrid) publications and libraries

By Miriam Rasch, March 19, 2019

Check out Library Stack, a project that works towards connecting artistic publications and library databases, and interested in getting in touch with relevant partners. Here’s a short intro: Library Stack is an online database, archive and distribution system for digital publications from the visual arts, design, architecture and theory. We collect ebooks, video, audio and [...]

What’s going on? Het essay in de wereld – About the essay, now also in English

By Miriam Rasch, March 15, 2019

Written for and presented at the launch of The world in yourself: Dutch and Flemish literature of the 21st century in sixty essays, 7 February 2019, Spui25 Amsterdam. After receiving a tip about translation website DeepL, I decided to experiment with it. I must say I’m impressed with the results (except for the word ‘tangconstructies’ [...]

Strategies to speed up publishing: some Best Practices

By Miriam Rasch, January 24, 2019

Write-up of a presentation held November 30th 2018 in Amsterdam. Below are some preliminary results from the Best Practices research that is continually being carried out within the Making Public project. These BPs and tools are collected throughout, so feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments or share them in another way. (Read [...]

Non-linear publication tools

By Marc de Bruijn, December 13, 2018

There’s a long tradition of non-linear narratives in traditional fiction, dating back to the Mahabharata from the 5thcentury BC 1 all the way to Joyce’s Ulysses, published in 1922. The narrative device of non-linearity is not exactly what we’re after though, as we’re looking into non-linear publishing methods that are also somehow interactive and go [...]