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 therefore 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, how these are, or can be, used to
create publics.
Read more on
pzwart.nl
Welcome to the XPUB homepage with links to tools and webpages we use in
the course.
An important part of the XPUB course is considering the implications of
the technologies and tools we use, how the choices have an impact
socially, environmentally, politically. In this spirit, rather than
relying heavily on cloud services, XPUB (self-) hosts and maintains many
of the servers and services that the course uses. Students learn and
practice skills of programming and server maintenance in order to gain
first hand experience with the materials of software and networks.
We will bring publications and zines in diverse forms from current
and past projects (Special Issues and Graduation works) 📚. And you can
meet and talk with tutors and students from the program!
Come and visit the XPUB stall this weekend: Saturday 4 + Sunday 5
November.
And on Sunday, you can join us in person and live on Radio WORM
between 15:30 and 16:30 for a talk/live radio broadcast of “Radio Worm:
Protocols for an Active Archive”. 📻
SUMMONS! 7 NOV 19:00, Leeszaal
You have been summoned by Experimental Publishing second year (XPUB2)
students! Feel free to join them on the 7th of November at Leeszaal
West. The evening aims to make their graduation proposals public and
open for judgement :)
Date: 7th of November 2023
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Location: Leeszaal Rotterdam West, Rijnhoutplein 3, 3014 TZ
Rotterdam
More Information: https://xpub.nl/2023/the-trial/
2023
Making Things Bubblic 🫧: Experimental
Publishing Graduation Show & Shop 2023
Opening Thursday 29th June (18:00 - 22:30)
Friday 30th June - Sunday 2nd July (12:00 - 18:00)
20:00 Commencement speech by Erica Gargaglione and Kimberley
Cosmilla and XPUB1 presentation
21:00 Performance by mitsitron (mitsa chaida)
Expo runs Friday 30th June (12:00 - 21:00) - Sunday 2nd July (12:00 -
18:00)
12:00 - 13:00 on Friday + Saturday + Sunday
Free Collective lunch served daily, everyone is welcome!
Small loaf of Minor Stories by Chaeyoung Kim will be served on the
side…
16:00 on Saturday
Performance by mitsitron (mitsa chaida)
13:00 on Sunday
Reading: “To whom it may affect” by Kimberley Cosmilla
WARM UP: Broadcasts on Radio
WORM, hosted by Ål Nik (Alexandra Nikolova) and Gersande
Schellinx.
Friday 23rd June 20:00 - 21:00
Tuesday 27th June 19:00 - 20:00
Special Issue #21: Interim Release
Special Issue #21 starts from a single technical object: a teletype
machine. The teletype is the meeting point between typewriters and
computer interfaces, a first automated translator of letters into bits.
Equipped with a keyboard, a transmitter and a punchcard read-writer, it
is a historical link between early transmission technology such as the
telegraph and the Internet of today.
not-just-a-fair: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 7-9 April
XPUB students + staff will be on hand at the not-just-a-fair
.
Come meet students + staff in person, and sample recent and
in-progress publications!
public servers
Special Issues
Special Issues are multi-form
publications related to a theme initated by a guest editor and produced
collectively by XPUB first year students.
Graduation projects and theses
Graduation projects and theses;
representing the culmination of their two year Masters study, each XPUB
student produces a graduation work and a thesis.
Course wiki
The wiki is the
lifeblood of the course: visit the calendar
to get an idea of a typical week, or see the list of current students to see
traces and sketches of work in progress. NB: The wiki is shared with the
lens-based master, items specific to XPUB are indicated by
XPUB1 and XPUB2 (to indicate the first and second
years). The wiki is an example of a self-hosted instance of mediawiki, the free software that
underpins Wikipedia.
Piet Zwart Institute
XPUB is one of six masters programs collectively known as the Piet Zwart
Institute.
Willem de Kooning Academy
XPUB is a part of the Willem
de Kooning academy, and can be found on the fourth floor of the
Wijnhaven building, with convenient access to the many facilities of the
Art academy.
Gitea
XPUB self-hosts a gitea code
respository. This provides a public outlet to support the many code
works done within the course such as this
page.
Etherpad
The XPUB etherpad is another crucial
piece of course self-hosted infrastructure. Etherpads are all about
realtime group collaboration with a minimum of prescriptive structures.
Pads are used heavily in the course as a means of collective note
taking, planning, writing and
annotation.
servers for students & staff
Hub
The xpub hub is a public relay to a
collection of self-hosted and student-maintained local servers. Using a
combination of VPN (virtual private
network) and reverse
proxy, the hub enables experimentation with self-hosting, server
portability, local-first and low power infrastructure and convivial and
feminist
server practices.
Zulip
The zulip server functions as a
private bulletin board system for the XPUB community, and as a self-hosted free software acts as an
alternative to centralized proprietary services like Slack and Discord.
Mailing list
The course uses a mailing list provided by neighbor network lurk.org.
Hotline
The hotline is a self-hosted Jitsi Meet server, an alternative to
proprietary services like Zoom, Teams, and Meet.
2022
XPUB@zinecamp
XPUB was a proud participant in 2022’s edition of zinecamp Rotterdam @ WORM.
Watch the video impression, featuring current and past
XPUB/Media Design staff and students: Clara Balaguer, Aymeric Mansoux,
Mara Karagianni, joak and a plotter, and more!
Julie Blanc and Julien Taquet from the paged.js project share their
experiences at the intersection of design practice and technical
standards.
Paged.js is a rendering tool for
previewing, inspecting and designing a PDF in the browser, that is known
for specifically accommodating designers using web-to-print techniques
in their publications and book making practice. Julie and Julien both
work (or have worked) as developers on the project, so the workshop gave
students an opportunity to ask them about Paged.js as an open source
project, and what it means to develop and maintain it. A nice example of
paged.js in action is Walkie
Talkie, the 2022 XPUB graduation catalog.
Zine edited by Manetta Berends and Michael Murtaugh reflecting on the
experiences of teaching programming and alternative tools in the context
of the XPUB Prototyping
class.
Screen Walk with Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam-Abbing
Online presentation by Aymeric Mansoux & Roel Roscam-Abbing
including a description of XPUB as an example of making “systemic
shifts” with alternative infrastructure.
