Collected essays on post-digital publishing practices

By Miriam Rasch, November 15, 2017

For those who read Brazilian Portuguese, check out this newly published collection of essays on post-digital practices in the arts and cultures, edited by Pablo Gobira & Tadeus Mucelli: Configurações do pós-digital: Arte e cultura tecnológicas. The collection features translated articles by both the INC and PublishingLab: Miriam Rasch wrote about the concept of Hybrid [...]

Theory on Demand: A Hands-on Approach to Learning How to Publish

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 29, 2017

By Inga Luchs After three months of working on publishing a manuscript, I understood that today in the Digital Age, publishing is not reserved to traditional publishing houses anymore but, to the opposite, it can be achieved by anybody, with a few digital tools, a carefully curated workflow, and only small experience in coding required. [...]

State of the Art: The Phase of the Post-digital in Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, June 28, 2017

Book publishing is one of the largest creative industries in Europe, deeply rooted in European history, thinking, and identity and in the different cultures, languages, and national markets across the continent. The European cultural industry of publishing nowadays has a still strong market value worldwide (FEP 2017). However, while disruptive technological developments have led to [...]

Digital Publishing Follow-up meeting #2

By Miriam Rasch, February 10, 2017

23 January 2017, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam Present: Janneke Adema, Marc de Bruijn, Mathieu Cenac, Florian Cramer, David Desrimais, Leonieke van Dipten, David Gauthier, Inte Gloerich, Gijs de Heij, Silvio Lorusso, Geert Lovink, Andrea Nienhaus, Pia Pol, Søren Pold, Miriam Rasch (notes), Nikola Richter, Elisa Rusca, Margreet Riphagen, Simon Worthington After our first meeting [...]

Discussion on possible future research in the field of (digital) publishing

By Miriam Rasch, December 22, 2016

17-18 November 2016, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam Present: Janneke Adema, Marc de Bruijn, Mathieu Cenac, David Desrimais, Leonieke van Dipten, Gijs de Heij, Silvio Lorusso, Andrea Nienhaus, Pia Pol, Søren Pold, Miriam Rasch (notes), Margreet Riphagen, Kimmy Spreeuwenberg Interconnection and resilience within the publishing workflow Media monopolies tighten their hold on the production and [...]

I Read Where I Am: a discussion with Thomas Castro from LUST

By Léna, April 20, 2016

A few days ago, I went to The Hague to talk with Thomas Castro –one of the designers of LUST– about I Read Where I Am which is one of the editorial projects of the studio. We also discussed more broadly about the publishing industry and nowadays experimental process of publishing. LUST is a multidisciplinary design studio based [...]

The People’s E-Book

By margreet riphagen, February 11, 2013

The People’s E-Book by Hol Art Books from Kickstarter UPDATE: The People’s E-Book will be built! Now, help us build it even better. The more we raise now, the more features we can offer our users in the future. Details coming soon. In the meantime, please keep pledging and keep passing it on to help us build [...]

The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM) is a proposal for a...

Interview with David Benqué – The Infinite Adventure Machine

By francescacoluzzi, February 1, 2013

The Infinite Adventure Machine (TIAM) is a proposal for a computer program which generates fairy-tale plots. While fully automatic story generation remains an unsolved problem for computer science, this project explores the links between imagination and computation. Tales and myths; the core narratives of human culture, have been transmitted for generations through various technologies and [...]

Interview with Anna and Britt – Visual Editions, London

By francescacoluzzi, January 8, 2013

“Visual Editions, nicknamed VE, is a London-based book publisher, started in early 2009 by Anna and Britt. The idea for VE comes from our joint love of books and a (mischievous) desire to do things differently, so that everything we do translates into a new experience for our readers, and for all the writers and [...]

Institute of Network Cultures: Can you introduce yourself: your background...

Interview with Waldemar Węgrzyn – Elektrobiblioteka

By francescacoluzzi, January 1, 2013

Institute of Network Cultures: Can you introduce yourself: your background and what you are doing now? Waldemar: My name is Waldemar Węgrzyn and I’m a graphic designer from Katowice, Poland. This year I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Katowice in the department of design. My fields of interest are book design, typography [...]