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. 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 and how we use them. 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.
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.
Screenshot of project.xpub.nlGraduation projects and theses; representing the culmination of their two year Masters study, each XPUB student produces a graduation work and a thesis.
WikiThe 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).
Piet Zwart InstituteWillem de Kooning academyGITEtherpad
students & staff
ZulipLurk XMPP
The hotline is a self-hosted jitsi instance; during the pandemic… zoom and co… link to critiques of cloud infrastructure here?
The 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.
XPUB2 presenting SI18 work in Paris