Thoughts on publishing and editorial design matters

Premise

During the 5-day workshop we will examine the possibilities of self-destruction in relation to cross-media publishing.

Modes of production: Discussion, sketching & prototyping, paired with hands-on exercises (crash course: terminal, crash course: python & scrape yourself).

Why do we like publishing?

Events

"Events Have Become Magazines", Bruce Sterling

sxswi

Christoph Schlingensief: Ausländer Raus

Hackers & Designers Summer Talks

And further

"(…) Labor is what produces capital and all those activities that do not produce capital are not labor.” Michael Hardt

The Whole Earth Catalog

In 1910 Marinetti climbed on the clock tower in Venice to drop leaflets.

The Futurist Manifesto

"One publishes to find comrades", Andre Breton

Mobile self-publishing for dissident content: Mimeograph

Stencilzolder Amsterdam

Octave Uzanne: The Author as his/her own publisher

Why do we like destruction?

Who does not like to blow up things?

Fluxus Newspaper meant to be torn apart

Agrippa 1992, William Gibson

The Digital Death Drive, Stefan Schäfer, Emily Westie, Selby Gildemacher

Art Postal! Game Issue

DRM (expiration) chair

Les Sugus (Gianfranco Baechtold, Laurent Beirnaert, Pierre Bouvier, Thibault Brevet, Raphaël Constantin, Lionel Dalmazzini, Edina Desboeufs, Arthur Desmet, Thomas Grogan)

The Falling Times

KLF

Tino Sehgal

H&D publishing attempts

FB Farewell Party

The Momentary Zine

Applied Bio Robotics

The H&D Summer Academy

Link to the etherpad

Etherpad: Collective note taking

Goals for this week

Concept and design of a publication or a series of publications, that has the characteristics of deleting/destroying itself at some point (optimally the date of the end presentation, Friday February 12th :-). The publication may be digital, analog, or both, a serial or a single issue, a performance, linear or nonlinear, narrative, participatory, rich or poor media content, text-based, image-based or both,…

General notes

• We are with a big group so there will be times you have to wait for everyone to proceed. Please take that time to try continue with the next steps, try out new iterations of scripts or to help others.
• Along with the technical instructions try and think about a final project you want to create and present Friday.
• Let's try and start on time and together, at 10:00.
• Lunch is at 13:00, prepared every day by another group of 3-4 volunteers.