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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.

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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.

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

Screenshot of project.xpub.nl

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

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

Zulip

The zulip instance functions as a private bulletin board system for the XPUB community.

Mailing list

Lurk XMPP

The course uses a mailing list provided by a neighboring network lurk.org.

Hotline (jitsi)

The hotline is a self-hosted jitsi instance; during the pandemic… zoom and co… link to critiques of cloud infrastructure here?

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.

2022

Queerying Wikidata

Workshop/Recorded presentation

Paged.js Workshop

Workshop/Recorded presentation

unPublic: XPUB2 presenting Special Issue #18 work in Paris

2021

SWAAT #00

Software with an Attitude (SWAAT), Issue #00: Edited by Manetta Berends and Michael Murtaugh, a reflection on the experiences of teaching programming and alternative tools in the contxt of the XPUB Prototyping class.

Screen Walk with Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam-Abbing

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.

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apply to the course

Applications deadlines: March 7, 2023 (non-EU) and May 10, 2023 (EU)
Online open day: February 11, 2023
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