Category: Copyright
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New COPIM Report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books
Two weeks ago we released a new COPIM research report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books: Strategies for Publishers and Authors. The report has been written by Samuel Moore, Tobias Steiner, and myself. This three-part research and scoping report has been created as a (evolving) resource for the scholarly community, especially for publishers…
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Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium
Friday, 1 October 2021 With the demise of traditional gatekeepers, we are witnessing the rapid rise of alternative modes of both scholarly publishing and distribution as well as the artistic exhibition of computer generated works of art in digital environments. The rise of open access and collaborative platforms are in fact blurring the distinctions between…
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Paper Struggles & Public Library and the Property Form
An exhibition and seminar at: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, London, E1 7LS Exhibition, ‘Paper Struggles’, opening: Monday, 9 December, 18.30-21.00 Continues: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December, 11.00-21.00 Seminar, ‘Public Library and the Property Form’: Tuesday 10 December, 10.30-13.30 Guest speakers: Balász Bodó & Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Seminar registration: http://tiny.cc/public_library ‘Paper Struggles’ This exhibition documents how struggles over…
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Delivered the Same Day
Seminar Series: Work, Property, Metrics Venue: Coventry University, Lanchester Library, Teaching Room, 3rd floor Time: June 3rd, 2019, 11:00-17:00 Guest Speakers: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Jamie Woodcock CPC researchers: Janneke Adema, Peter Conlin, Valeria Graziano, Gary Hall, Kaja Marczewska, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak Delivered the Same Day: The Post Office and Amazon.com Historically the postal service has solidified as a…
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Experimental Publishing II – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation
A half-day symposium with talks by Mark Amerika (UC Boulder) and Nick Thurston (University of Leeds) 2:15-5:30pm May 28 Centre for Postdigital Cultures Teaching Room 3rd Floor Lanchester Library Coventry University Registration (free): https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/experimental-publishing-ii2/ In 2019 and 2020, the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) will be hosting a series of symposia exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over…
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unruly gestures
I am happy to announce the publication of a new article, a video-essay, which I co-authored with the filmmaker and theorist Kamila Kuc. Published in the open access journal Culture Unbound, the basis of this performative article lies in a video Kamila and I made, which deals with and breaks through common preconceptions and assumptions…
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New article: Performative Publications
Published in the disrupted Journal of Media practice (more on this collaboratively edited special issue here) is my latest article on ‘Performative Publications’. This experimental and processual article is available in various different versions. Underneath the abstract and the introduction to ‘Performative Publications’, which explain in more detail the context of this research project…
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Launch of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures
7th February 3.00pm Disruptive Media Learning Lab (Coventry University) Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-centre-for-postdigital-cultures-tickets-41968258190 You are invited to the launch of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), a new Faculty Research Centre at Coventry University. The launch will include keynote talks by 3 internationally esteemed speakers: Cornelia Sollfrank (Zurich University of the Arts) Monika Bakke (Adam…
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Cut-Up
Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough have again proven to be the main trendsetters where it concerns the field of remix studies with the publication of their second remix studies anthology, which has this time been framed around 24 essays all focused on a specific keyword of relevance to this burgeoning field. You can…
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Radical OA Website Launched
The new and updated website for the Radical Open Access Collective website has now officially been launched! https://radicaloa.co.uk Formed in 2015, the Radical OA Collective is a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences. We represent an alternative open access ecosystem and seek to create…
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Academia.edu and Self-Branding
Last week I was invited to give a talk at UCSB Library. Underneath you can find a transcript of my talk and a selection of my slides. Academia.edu & Self-Branding: The Metricisation of Scholars and Scholarly Networks Today I will be discussing two topics which are directly related: the growing use by academics of commercial…
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Post-Digital Living Bookshelves
The book has always been studied within a wide variety of fields, from (book) history, bibliography and literature, to library and information science, publishing, and media studies. However, the latter—media studies—has been quite slow in its uptake of the book as an object of study, where as a field it has predominantly focused on audio-visual…