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<nettime> Next Step Publishing, discussion |
hello everyone, you are all welcome to joining in the discussion on "Next Step Publishing" that is taking place on the Yasmin mailing list. Below, the initial statement setting the domains of the discussion. Invited discussants are Massimo Canevacci, FakePress publishing coordinated by Luca Simeone, Andrew Hudson Smith, Simone Arcagni, Marc Garrett and Furtherfield, with contributions by Alessandro Aurigi, Mike Batty and Nina Czegledy and guest contributions from major researchers in the area. you are all invited to the discussion. You can subscribe to the Yasmin mailing list at http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin/ (please subscribe to both discussion and announcement lists to fully follow the activities). *** Information about Yasmin: YASMIN is a network of artists, scientists, engineers, theoreticians and institutions promoting communication and collaboration in art, science and technology around the Mediterranean Rim. YASMIN welcomes information on events, artists' works, organizations' programmes, projects, initiatives as well as discussions and critical analysis in the field of art, science and technology around the Mediterranean Rim. YASMIN aims to identify the players and to facilitate cooperation within the Mediterranean Rim. The list is currently moderated by the following team : Pau Alsina, Monica Bello, Dimitris Charitos, Roger Malina, Nina Czegledy, Ricardo Mbarkho, Guillermo Mu??oz Matutano and Houssine Soussi. The YASMIN administrators are Haris Rizopoulos and Velissarios Tsakoumis. For technical support, please contact us at: "Yasmin Tech" , tech.yasmin@gmail.com Regional correspondents of YASMIN are Marta de Menezes in Portugal, NoemaLab magazine in Italy, Hadel , Oguzhan Ozcan in Turkey, Erika Katalina Pasztor in Hungary, Ana Peraica in Croatia and "Piratas de la Ciencia" in Spain. *** initial statement for the Next Step Publishing discussion In 2003 Antoni Abad and Eugenio Tisselli, artists and educators, created "Zexe" (later called "Megafone"). In the project members of fringe communities in Algeria, Spain, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil were invited to "express their experiences and opinions through face-to-face meetings and mobile phones". http://megafone.net/ ???Mobile phones, GPS technologies and convergent media were used to go beyond classical anthropological writing, to create a disarticulated, ever-evolving book that was disseminated in space, time and media, and that was designed ethnographically, with the whole technological ecosystem that was gently layered onto the social anthropological systems formed by the invited communities.???What came out was a beautiful, disseminated, emergent, multi-author, ubiquitous, open-ended narrative that represents a new form of publication that has incredible value. ???This example (among the other possible ones) shows a scenario which is progressively rising in significance and effectiveness. Naturally interconnecting arts, sciences, design, architecture, engineering, and living across local and global scales, this scenario shows how we can proficiently envision publications under the forms of social networks, architectures, geographical spaces, economic systems, environments, processes and design objects by creating "books" that are natively cross-medial and that use technologies such as augmented reality, wide tagging, spime, sensors, networks, mobile devices, wearable technologies. Future scenarios, both near and far, raise interesting questions. Can bodies, architectures, geographies, relationships, emotions, cities, information, research processes represent proper spaces for new kinds of publications? Questions like these highlight fascinating, uncertain areas and a discussion stemming from the list can contribute to shape the future research agenda. ???In this discussion, titled "Next Step Publishing", we wish to investigate these new forms of publication, and the transformations which they imply, including: * the mutation of the roles of publishers, editors, researchers, authors, readers and the general society; * the mutation of cities, of social ecosystems and of the networks of knowledge and relation; * the creation of suitable research, production and distribution models; * and the use of means of presenting information that are accessible at cognitive, anthropological and technical levels, using infoaesthetic representations, knowledge and content sharing infrastructures, natural interfaces and innovative forms of interaction thank you, Salvatore / xDxD # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org