XPUB Special Issues

Experimental Publishing (XPUB) is a new study path of the Piet Zwart Institute's Media Design Master programme.

XPUB's interests in publishing are twofold:

first, publishing as the inquiry and participation into the technological frameworks, political context and cultural processes through which things are made public;

and second, publishing as the desire to expand the means of discourse circulation beyond print media and its direct digital translation.


In relation to these two points, every trimester students and staff of XPUB work together on a Special Issue.


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Special
Issue 1
December 2016
OP=OP

Dear gamers,

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.

Looking forward to ruin you!

Emily Buzzo, Karina Dukalska, Max Franklin, Giulia de Giovanelli, Clàudia Giralt, Pleun Gremmen, Francisco González, Julia Kul, Margreet Riphagen, Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, and Noémie Vidé

Special
Issue 2
March 2017
TGC #3

Dearest listeners,

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.

Concretely yours,

Emily Buzzo, Karina Dukalska, Max Franklin, Giulia de Giovanelli, Clàudia Giralt, Francisco González, Margreet Riphagen, Nadine Rotem-Stibbe, and Kimmy Spreeuwenberg.

Special
Issue 3
June 2017
Interfacing the Law

Pirates come ye!

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!

All hands ahoy!

Emily Buzzo, Karina Dukalska, Max Franklin, Giulia de Giovanelli, Francisco González, and Nadine Rotem-Stibbe.

Special
Issue 4
December 2017
A BED, A CHAIR AND A TABLE

Dear active archivist,

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.

Join us.

Natasha Berting, Elisa Chaudet, Angeliki Diakrousi, Joca van der Horst, Alexander Roidl, Alice Strete and Zalán Szakács

Special
Issue 5
March 2018
OuNuPo

Dear OuNuPian,

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? To answer these questions, the XPUB practitioners have written software, built a bookscanner and assembled a unique printed reader.

Make ocr/output/publication.txt

Natasha Berting, Angeliki Diakrousi, Joca van der Horst, Alexander Roidl, Alice Strete and Zalán Szakács

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