Thoughts on publishing and editorial design matters

From Hackers & Designers

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

Bruce

Christoph Schlingensief: Ausländer Raus

Container Banner Schlingensief Reactions

Hackers & Designers Summer Talks

Summer Talks Media Jeremy Bailey


And further

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

Immaterial Labor

The Whole Earth Catalog

Whole Earth Cover Whole Earth Spread


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

The Futurist Manifesto

The Futurist Manifesto

"One publishes to find comrades", Andre Breton

Dada Magazine

Mobile self-publishing for dissident content: Mimeograph

Mimeograph

Stencilzolder Amsterdam

Stencilzolder Stencilzolder Stencilzolder

Octave Uzanne: The Author as his own publisher

Octave Uzanne

Villemard

Why do we like destruction?

Who does not like to blow up things?

Burnnn

Fluxus Newspaper meant to be torn apart

Fluxus News Fluxus News Fluxus News

Agrippa 1992, William Gibson

Agrippa

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

Digital Death Drive Digital Death Drive

Art Postal! Game Issue

Mail Art

Expiration chair

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

Expiration Chair Expiration Chair

The Falling Times

Falling Times

KLF

KLF Money burning

Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal

H&D publishing attempts

Link to the etherpad

Etherpad: Collective note taking

Goals for this week

Make a publication or a prototype of a publication that has a build in expiration date (optimally the date of the end presentation, Friday February 12th). The publication in this context can live online or/and offline. It can be printed matter, e-pub, a performance, an object or an audio file, as long it’s informed by technology in some extend.

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.