Currently, i work at XPUB and co-run creative crowds (CC).
Between 2017 and 2023 i have been a member of Varia.
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Content/Form is the follow up edition of the Peer-reviewed Newspaper from last year. Together with Simon Browne (as CC), we have been involved in the speedy production and collective editorial process, making this newspaper with wiki-to-print, participants, editors, designers (CC), server admins and the Servpub server in 5 days, in the sidelines of the Transmediale festival in Berlin [January/February 2024].
[April 2023] What can be (re)learned from operating shoulder-to-shoulder (or not)? I am taking time to chew on this question during a residency period at OSP.
Toward a Minor Tech
emerged from a range of contributions around the notion of minor tech,
during a 3-day sprint and workshop in London [January 2023].
The 12th edition of the Peer-reviewed Newspaper is made in a
wiki-to-print
environment hosted on the CC server, where contributors, editors and designers (Simon Browne and myself) produced the newspaper in parallel.
We also published
the code of this wiki-to-print boilerplate,
to continue the trail of wiki-to/2-print/pdf configurations.
Tripiti took care of the offset printing and shipped the newsletters to Berlin for their launch at the Transmediale later that month.
Through multiple moments of collective writing and designing at Varia, and while learning from ethertoff, ether2html, etherpash, etherbox, etherdump, and pad2print, but also just from using the software project etherpad ... octomode [2021] transformed into a collective editing space for PDF making, using Etherpad, Paged.js and Flask. Inspired by the multi-centered, tentacular cognition capabilities of the octopus, we imagined a space in which the artificial boundaries of writing and design can be crossed; where writing, editing and designing can be done in one environment simultaneously, allowing the format to influence the matter and vice-versa.
The book Volumetric Regimes,
edited by Possible Bodies,
published in [2022] by Open Humanities Press as part of the
Data Browser series,
is made with wiki-to-print.
The Publishing Partyline
brought a group of practicioners together working or curious about web-to-print practices, during a two-day collective learning situation
in [October 2022] at Varia.
To prepare for this moment, Simon Browne and i produced a set of viewpoint cards
and hosted a radio conversation series in which we interviewed
practicioners (OSP),
tool makers (Paged.js),
and educators (Julien Bidoret and Quentin Juhel).
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