Aymeric Mansoux on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:47:49 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime-ann> [event] XPUB Special Issue 5 - OuNuPo |
. Sorry for >< please >> /// OuNuPo, Ouvroir de Numérisation Potentielle, the workshop of potential digitisation XPUB, Varia and WORM invite you for an evening of book scanning, short presentations, discussions and software experiments in the context of text digitisation and processing. Wednesday 28/03/18 Doors open at 19:00, presentations start at 19:30. /// >From January until the end of March 2018 the practitioners of the Media Design Experimental Publishing Master course (XPUB) of the Piet Zwart Institute, in collaboration with Manetta Berends & Cristina Cochior (Varia) and the WORM Pirate Bay, have set sail on the vast sea of DIY book scanning, feminist research methodologies, constraint writing, algorithmic literature and the cultures of text digitisation and processing. The term OuNuPo is derived from OuLiPo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), founded in 1960. OuLiPo is a mostly French speaking gathering of writers and mathematicians interested in constrained writing techniques. A famous technique is for instance the lipogram that generates texts in which one or more letters have been excluded. OuLiPo eventually led to OuXPo to expand these creative constraints to other practices (OuCiPo for film making, OuPeinPo for painting, etc). Following this expansion, XPUB launches OuNuPo, Ouvroir de Numérisation Potentielle, the workshop of potential digitisation, turning the book scanner as a platform for media design and publishing experiments. In the past three months, the XPUB practitioners have used OuNuPo as a means to reflect on several topics: how culture is shaped by book scanning? Who has access and who is excluded from digital culture? How free software and open source hardware have bootstrapped a new culture of librarians? What happens to text when it becomes data that can be transformed, manipulated and analysed ad nauseam? To answer these questions, the XPUB practitioners have written software and assembled a unique printed reader, informed by critical and feminist research methodologies. The text selection explores the themes of the digital transfer of cultural biases, Techno/Cyber/Xeno-Feminism, oral culture in the context of knowledge sharing, shadow libraries, database narratives, gender and future librarians. The content of the reader will be scanned by a DIY book scanner built in the past months, and processed by different software processes and performances written by the XPUB practitioners, from chat bots to concrete poetry generators and speech recognition feedback loops. more info? -> https://issue.xpub.nl/05/ <- /// PZI Master Media Design Experimental Publishing (XPUB) Application deadline: May 15 https://xpub.nl https://issue.xpub.nl /// a. -- https://bleu255.com/~aymeric _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann