#Xp Publishing Workshop
This repository contains references and resources on experimental publishing.
It was created at the occasion of a 2 days workshop given by LUST with BA and MA students from Graphic Design Arnhem, Piet Zwart Institute ExPub and PublishingLab interns, in October 2016.
##Purpose
Publishing comes from Latin publicare, which means 'to make public'. Whenever we convey a message, from a source to a destination, we encapsulate this data in a specific form, chosen depending on our needs.
In our digital realm, we consume and publish information every minute without even noticing it: we publish a picture on Instagram from the database of our smartphone, we post a comment on a newsfeed, we edit the description of our last item to sell on Ebay, we send an email to our friend…
We are all publishers. We read, we write, we organize, comment, curate, publish all the time. We are users. But as designers, we can also act on this and create new publishing tools in order to satisfy different needs.
This workshop aims to widen the scope of experimental publishing, by considering new tools. This work will be based on the analysis of specific study cases defined by the students.
##Toolbox
instagotwi
python image scraper
https://github.com/amirhouieh/instagotwi
goguess
python caption generator using google image best guess.
https://github.com/amirhouieh/goguess
webgrider
Nodejs module to draw the grid/backbone of any website.
https://github.com/amirhouieh/webgrider
webtypographer
Nodejs module to analayze and visualizing the typography of any website.
https://github.com/amirhouieh/webtypographer
h2p: render pdf from html
back-end
https://gitlab.com/krks_gbr/h2p-electron
front-end
https://github.com/krksgbr/html2print
if this then that
free web-based service to create chains of simple conditional statement based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram…
https://ifttt.com
contextualised information
grabbing data from website and pdf renderer using prince xml
https://github.com/LenaRobin/diplome
pandoc
markup convertor in command line
https://pandoc.org
hybrid publishing toolkit
Hybrid publishing toolkit
https://github.com/DigitalPublishingToolkit/Hybrid-Publishing-Resources
Here in use for the series Theory on Demand by Institute of Network Cultures
https://github.com/DigitalPublishingToolkit/TOD20-New-Aesthetics
world wide repository https://github.com/martijndeheer/world-wide-repository
soft camera/image processing
http://fileunderpopular.com/soft-cameras/
print a book from whatsapp with python+latex
http://beckman.io/whatsapp-books-a-hackers-guide
##Assignement
- As part of a group, come up with the idea of a project of experimental publishing (a workflow), which has to be realised whith one {or many, or all, or none} of the tools presented during the workshop.
- Each workflow will require to designate clearly an input and an output.
- Input will be: the World Wide Web.
- Output will be: a proposal, a prototype, theoretical, a theory, a book, a video, an installation, a song, a program, a text, a poem, a social network, a platform, a website, a photograph, a performance, a movie, a theater play, a map, an internet protocol, a plain text or json.
- Each project will question the notion of Filter.*
#* In the end of the workshop, each group will present its project in a short lecture of 15 min. - Don't forget to keep track of your researches and experiments!
####*Filter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAwdixodjw
Filter, verb.
1/
To pass (a liquid, gas, light, or sound) through a device to remove unwanted material.
"the eye filters out ultraviolet radiation"
synonyms: sieve, strain, sift, filtrate, riddle;
To process or assess (items) in order to reject those that are unwanted.
"you'll be put through to a secretary whose job it is to filter calls"
(COMPUTING) To process or treat with a filter.2/
To move slowly in a specified direction.
"the players filtered out on to the pitch"
synonyms: seep, percolate, leak, trickle, ooze, dribble, bleed, flow;
(of light or sound) enter a place slowly or in small quantities.
"sunlight filtered in through the thin curtains" synonyms: seep, percolate, leak, trickle, ooze, dribble, bleed, flow; Filter (of information) gradually become known.
"the news began to filter in from the hospital"
Filter (of traffic) be allowed to pass to the left or right at a junction while traffic going straight ahead is halted.
##Planning
###Friday, 7th of October
09:00 – Welcome + cafe
09:30 – Opening (Thomas)
10:00 – Presentations (Amir, Gabor, Léna, Jakob, Edwin)
13:30 – Lunch
14:30 – Introduction to the workshop
15:00 – Group discussions
15:30 – Group work
17:45 – Round table, Q&A
18:15 – Drinks :)
###Friday, 14th of October
09:00 – Welcome + cafe
09:30 – Group work
13:30 – Lunch
14:30 – Group work
16:00 – Presentations
17:45 – Wrap up
18:15 – Drinks :)
##Framapad