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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.

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](https://pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/)

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Special Issues

[Special Issues](https://issue.xpub.nl) 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](https://project.xpub.nl); representing the culmination of their two year Masters study, each XPUB student produces a graduation work and a thesis.

Course wiki

[The wiki](https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/) is the lifeblood of the course: visit the [calendar](https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Calendars:Networked_Media_Calendar) to get an idea of a typical week, or see the list of current [students](https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/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](https://mediawiki.org), the free software that underpins Wikipedia.

Piet Zwart Institute

XPUB is one of six masters programs collectively known as the [Piet Zwart Institute](https://www.pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/).

Willem de Kooning Academy

XPUB is a part of the [Willem de Kooning](https://www.wdka.nl/programmes/master-media-design-experimental-publishing) 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](https://git.xpub.nl). This provides a public outlet to support the many code works done within the course such as [this page](https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/xpub.nl/src/branch/master/index.md).

Etherpad

The [XPUB etherpad](https://pad.xpub.nl) 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](https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Methods_xpub).

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servers for students & staff

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Zulip

The [zulip](https://zulip.xpub.nl) instance functions as a private bulletin board system for the XPUB community.

Mailing list

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

Hotline (jitsi)

The [hotline](https://hotline.xpub.nl) is a self-hosted [jitsi](https://jitsi.org) instance; during the pandemic... zoom and co... link to critiques of cloud infrastructure here?

Hub

The [xpub hub](https://hub.xpub.nl/) is a public relay to a collection of self-hosted and student-maintained local servers. Using a combination of [VPN](https://tinc-vpn.org/) (virtual private network) and [reverse proxy](https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/reverse-proxy/), the hub enables experimentation with self-hosting, server portability, local-first and low power infrastructure and [convivial](http://damaged.bleu255.com/Convivial_Computing/) and [feminist](http://damaged.bleu255.com/Feminist_Technology/) server practices.

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Queerying Wikidata

[Workshop/Recorded presentation](/2022/queeryingwikidata/)

Paged.js Workshop

[Workshop/Recorded presentation](/2022/pagedjs/)


[unPublic](https://unpublic.bandcamp.com/album/paris-22-june-2022?fbclid=IwAR0i1kkNAKDhjbYlqrWgB_Em58f0Q9PaPAbfhg0XiaZbguPMEafLhENfLuQ): XPUB2 presenting Special Issue #18 work in Paris

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2021

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SWAAT #00

[Software with an Attitude (SWAAT), Issue #00](https://media.xpub.nl/2021/SWAAT-00.pdf): 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](https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Prototyping) class.

Screen Walk with Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam-Abbing

[Screen Walk with Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam-Abbing](https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/watch-screen-walk-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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