<p>XPUB is the Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing of the Piet Zwart Institute. XPUB focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks. XPUB's interests in publishing are twofold:</p>
<p><b>first</b>, publishing as the inquiry and participation into the technological frameworks, political context and cultural processes through which things are made public;</p>
<p>and <b>second</b>, how these are, or can be, used to create publics by expanding the means of discourse circulation beyond print media and its direct digital translation.</p>
<p>Pick the Pig, you are a risky trader. Pick the Chicken, and you'll sit on your eggs until they hatch. Maybe you'll be lucky and get a Bull market, or maybe not and have to deal with the Bear. Tear up a book, and get dealing with the free market, exploitation, taxation and the privatization of services. Pit resources and economics against each other and feel the Artifical Scarity burn.</p>
<p>Emily Buzzo, Karina Dukalska, Max Franklin, Giulia de Giovanelli, Clàudia Giralt, Pleun Gremmen, Francisco González, Julia Kul, Margreet Riphagen, Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, and Noémie Vidé</p>
<p>Come Adopt a Walk or Rock Step Triple Step Triple Step along, a Fine Line, and discover Euclid in Motion towards A Sonification of the Dutch Elections 2017, to finaly embrace the Drone Oddities 1, 2 and 3 to Rest.</p>
<p>Concretely yours,</p>
<p>Emily Buzzo, Karina Dukalska, Max Franklin, Giulia de Giovanelli, Clàudia Giralt, Francisco González, Margreet Riphagen, Nadine Rotem-Stibbe, and Kimmy Spreeuwenberg.</p>
<p>Yaar be welcome amongst there books wit rum. We call on ye to battle the terror of the mind, produced by there current intellectual property regime? Transcend the juridical binary of illegal vs. legal, and claim political legitimacy on the digital seas of grey!</p>
<p>Can an archive save the Poortgebouw? This former squat and vibrant living community is facing a key moment in the future. In this publication, oral histories from the building’s illustrious past interact with material from various collections, including the Poortgebouw’s own Autonomous Archive. Here, archiving is not the end, but the beginning of a debate.</p>
<p>Join us.</p>
<p>Natasha Berting, Elisa Chaudet, Angeliki Diakrousi, Joca van der Horst, Alexander Roidl, Alice Strete and Zalán Szakács</p>
<p>In the Ouvroir de Numérisation Potentielle (the workshop of potential digitisation, or OuNuPo) the XPUB practitioners reflected on several topics: how culture is shaped by book scanning? Who has access and who is excluded from digital culture? How free software and open source hardware have bootstrapped a new culture of librarians? What happens to text when it becomes data that can be transformed, manipulated and analysed ad nauseam?
<p>You're welcome to share your books with us, regardless of where you got them from.
XPPL is a platform for potential pirate librarianship where knowledge comrades share information freely. The library gathers all the books and articles floating around on our shelves, hard drives, memory sticks and bathroom floors. It starts at XPUB, but it can go anywhere you want it to.</p>
<p>Natasha Berting, Angeliki Diakrousi, Joca van der Horst, Alexander Roidl, Alice Strete and Zalán Szakács</p>
<p>(◕‿◕) Take your time to reflect on this: Are you doing what you truly want to do? (◕‿◕) ị̞͍s̯̩̠ ̴̩͉̫̗͇ț̠ͅh̪̼̟̪̕i͠s͎̝̩̯̩̠ ̗̘̰̟̩͕p̻̘͙͓á̩̭r̳͚͕̘͖ṯ̤̼͔͖ͅ ̜̱o̯̩̦̗̮̖̣f ̺͝y̥͡o̧̺͚͉̠͙̗ͅu̧̜͖̥r̸̘ ̹̤͙̳j̴̙̗o̵̼̲͉͖̮b̥͖͘ ͕͓ḏ̷̩e̫s͖̭͕̙̱͉ć̖͉̯̙̫̪r̶̠i̖p̨̜t̨̼͓ͅi͖͈͇͙͞o͏̹̠̬̻n͍̩͇̱͞? (◕‿◕) If happiness is a currency, how rich do you think you are? (◕‿◕) ♪♬ ғɪx ᴡᴏʙʙʟʏ ᴏғғɪᴄᴇ ғᴜʀɴɪᴛᴜʀᴇ ʙʏ ᴜsɪɴɢ ᴏʟᴅ ᴄᴅs ᴛᴏ ᴀᴠᴏɪᴅ ᴡᴏʙʙʟᴇs ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʀᴏᴛᴇᴄᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʀᴘᴇᴛ. ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʟsᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴄᴏᴀsᴛᴇʀs. ♪♬</p>
<p>Gill Baldwin, Simon Browne, Tancredi Di Giovanni, Paloma García, Rita Graça, Artemis Gryllaki, Pedro Sá Couto, Biyi Wen and Bohye Woo</p>
<p>We traveled from home to home by bicycle, setting up homeservers. As friends and companions on this <em>Infrastructour</em>, we studied our routers over drinks served by our hosts. Where possible we installed our servers in our homes, in other cases we had to depend on another member of the group. While self-hosting together we questioned our understandings of networks, autonomy, online publishing and social infrastructures, where each of us departed from a different question. We would like to share our personal (yet interconnected) routes with you, tell you a story, present our web- and printed zines, and invite you to explore our homebrewed network.</p>
