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
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✨ XPUB at Zine Camp 2023! ✨
https://zinecamp2023.hotglue.me/
4 + 5 Nov, WORM
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”. 📻
Making Things Bubblic 🫧: Experimental Publishing Graduation Show & Shop 2023
WORM S/ash Gallery
Boomgaardsstraat 69, Rotterdam
Opening: Thursday 29th June (18:00 - 22:30)
Expo runs Friday 30th June (12:00 - 21:00) - Sunday 2nd July (12:00 - 18:00)
WARM UP: Broadcasts on Radio WORM, hosted by Ål Nik (Alexandra Nikolova) and Gersande Schellinx.
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.
Guest Editor: Martino Morandi
Special Issue #20: Console
Special Issue #20: Console, was launched March 31, 2023, at Page Not Found in Den Haag.
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!
Special Issues
Graduation projects and theses
Course wiki
Piet Zwart Institute
Willem de Kooning Academy
Gitea
Etherpad
Hub
Zulip
Mailing list
Hotline
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!
Video documentationWalkie Talkie
The XPUB 2022 graduation was hosted at Worm and the academy.
Project pages and thesesSpecial Issue #19: garden ? @ leeszaal
Special Issue #19 was launched in December, 2023 at Leeszaal, a local library and community center in Rotterdam West.
Online publicationQueerying Wikidata
XPUB, Anaïs Berck and queer artivist/wikimedian Z. Blace join forces to explore automatic writing experiments querying and queering Wikidata.
Workshop announcementPaged.js Workshop
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.
Workshop announcementX-unPub
XPUB first years students presented their work during Special Issue #18 at a residency in Paris.
Recorded audio presentationSWAAT #00
Software with an Attitude (SWAAT), Issue #00
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.
Recorded video presentationQuestions? Please write to: l.j.drost-robbins@hr.nl.