Expanded Publishing Fest #4 took place on the 20th of June 2025 at OT301 in Amsterdam and served as the closing event of the European project .expub | Exploring Expanded Publishing. The discursive program took place in the Ventilator Cinema and was streamed live on PeerTube via THE VOID PopUp TV Studio. The evening featured book launches, performance lectures, and discussions alongside a micro book fair presenting independent publishers. An intermezzo featured a video work by August Stutgard, accompanied by music composed by Daniel Leix Palumbo. The formal program was followed by a club night in the OT301 studios, continuing the event’s emphasis on publishing as both a situated and social practice.
The evening program combined presentations of new publications, lecture performances, and a micro book fair, with a focus on experimental publishing. The first part of the event was streamed from THE VOID PopUp TV Studio. Participants included artists, researchers, and activist engaged in rethinking how publishing can function both as a method and as a site of political and cultural work.
Expanded Publishing Fest #4 Program
- 19:00 – Intro
- 19:15 – Book Launch – .expub | exploring expanded publishing With Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, Carolina Valente Pinto and Alix Stria
- 19:50 – Podcast Launch – Thinking Face Emoji With Salome Berdzenishvili, Anielek Niemyjski and Maja Mikulska
- 20:15 – Book landing – Between Palestine and Us: Testimonies of the 2024 student uprising in Amsterdam With Spookstad
- 20:50 – Zine-Comic Launch – Duckrabbits Unveiled: A Sneak Peek at the Postartistic Theory and Practice With Kuba Szreder and Kacper Greń + Q&A with Sepp Eckenhaussen
- 21:25 – Performance Lecture – The Internet’s Dark Forests With Marta Ceccarelli + Q&A with Geert Lovink
- 19:00- 22:00 – Micro 📚 Book Fair
Chapter 1: Exploring Expanded Publishing – Book Launch
With Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, Carolina Valente Pinto and Alix Stria
This panel introduced the publication .expub / Exploring Expanded Publishing, the outcome of a two year Creative Europe project in collaboration with Aksioma, Echo Chamber, NERO Editions, and the Institute of Network Cultures. Contributors reflected on the notion of “expanded publishing” through discussions of hybrid tools, infrastructural entanglements, and collective editorial practices. How can publishing infrastructures become more sustainable, modular, and open? What formats could fully embrace the long-standing promises of multimedia publishing? What does the future of publishing look like beyond platform monopolies and print/digital binaries? Part reader, part toolkit, part living archive, this book gathers essays, interviews, and hybrid publishing tools — from podcasts to print-on-demand, stream-based releases to online collaborative writing. Written and edited collaboratively using Etherport — an open-source tool linking live writing to web-to-print publishing — the book reflects the very practices it investigates: decentralized, modular, transmedial, and open-ended.
Chapter 2: Thinking Face Emoji – Podcast Launch
With Salome Berdzenishvili, Anielek Niemyjski and Maja Mikulska
This session presented Thinking Face Emoji, a podcast produced by The Hmm in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures. The series explores online gender expressions, visual culture, and the role of platform aesthetics in shaping identity discourse. From girl math to men who are babygirl to looksmaxxing incels, online culture has accelerated, and perhaps even changed, how we express our gender identities. The contributors presented short excerpts and discussed topics such as incel-feminism, the girlboss phenomenon, and post-Soviet internet vernaculars. The podcast was framed as both a critical reflection on digital subcultures and an experiment in audio-based publishing.
Chapter 3: Between Palestine and Us – Book Landing
With Jan Egbers
In this presentation, Jan Egbers, member of the Spookstad publishing initiative, introduced Between Palestine and Us: Testimonies of the 2024 Student Uprising in Amsterdam. The book documents and recounts the student uprising in Amsterdam in May 2024. Denouncing the complicity of their university and government in the destruction of Gaza, student protesters and other activists rose up across the city. They engaged in massive protests, organized encampments and occupations, and built barricades wherever they went. At once an activist archive and counter-history, this book documents the events from the position of the participants. Through art and literature, in addition, it reflects on the necessity and limits of resistance, painting a stirring picture of international solidarity with Palestine. Rather than offering a definitive account, the book presents fragments that speak to the immediacy and unresolved nature of the protests. It also reflects on the ethical and political challenges of documenting ongoing resistance.
Chapter 4: Duckrabbits Unveiled – Zine-Comic Launch
With Kuba Szreder and Kacper Greń + Q&A with Sepp Eckenhaussen
In this session, authors Kuba Szreder and Kacper Greń introduced Duckrabbits Unveiled, a zine-comic emerging from the post-artistic scene in Poland. Framed around the figure of the “duckrabbit”— the spirit animal of Consortium for Postartistic Practices—the publication explores practices situated between art, activism, and critical pedagogy. Through a dialogical format moderated by Sepp Eckenhaussen, the authors discussed the political use of ambiguity and the refusal of fixed identity categories in contemporary art. The zine is also a reflection on art’s shifting institutional and material conditions, proposing the “post-artistic” not as a stylistic category but as a political disposition toward use, collectivity, and everyday infrastructures.
Chapter 5: The Internet’s Dark Forests – Performance Lecture and Conversation
With Marta Ceccarelli + Q&A with Geert Lovink
The final presentation of the evening was a performance lecture by Marta Ceccarelli, based on her publication The Internet’s Dark Forests: Some Cultural Memories and Vernaculars of Related Imaginaries. The work investigates the concept of “dark forests” as alternative internet imaginaries—semi-private digital environments such as Discord servers, encrypted messaging platforms, and ephemeral networks of content sharing. Drawing from digital ethnography, media theory, and personal reflection, Ceccarelli situates dark forests as spaces of refusal, subcultural identity, and tactical withdrawal from surveillance regimes. The lecture foregrounded questions of visibility, temporality, and platform critique.
The evening concluded with a conversation between Ceccarelli and Geert Lovink, in which they examined the political implications of such online spaces and discussed the ongoing relevance of theorizing internet imaginaries beyond mainstream platform capitalism.
🎶 Club Night Program
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23:00-00:00 જ⁀➴ corecore (jp’♡)
The night started with jp’♡ from corecore, which is a network for contemporary electronic and “online” music, hosting url and irl events in Amsterdam and elsewhere, run by tj0ki, cdr103 and jp’♡.
00:00-01:00 જ⁀➴ Pebblle
Popping bottles with a mouse tonight: Pebblle weaves together her favourite songs, ranging from memories and melodies to instrumental abstraction, listening and bouncing along with curious ears
01:00-03:00 જ⁀➴ orczi96 b2b screenage dj
screenage dj is a dj/producer from amsterdam. His sets bring a wide array of sounds from og dubstep, jungle, breaks & gabber to experimental listening music like braindance & ambient. He produces under the name inkscreen where he focusses on idm & breakcore. He released his debut EP photo finish on amsterdam/tokyo based label seedlink⁺. He played b2b with orczi96͙͘͡★ (PL/NL/BE), who’s in love with music of all kinds… from glitchy, emotional and textured ambient soundscapes to poppy, high-energy edm, hyperbounce, bubblegum bass and dubstep. her style centers on experimental and contemporary electronic music ♪ ✗⚬ﾒo
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