[spectre] Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium
Gary Hall
mail at garyhall.info
Thu Sep 16 11:03:05 CEST 2021
Hi,
Janneke Adema, Joanna Zylinska, Danny Snelson Davin Heckman and myself
will be speaking at the event underneath, organised as part of the
Post-Publishing programme (https://www.post-publishing.org/) in
collaboration with Mark Amerika and co. at UC Boulder. There's also a
Clinic for Open Source Arts in the afternoon which might be of interest.
All times are in US Mountain Time.
The event website with all the information is here (also copied
underneath): https://nickoal.github.io/Radical-Open-Access-Symposium/
Cheers, Gary
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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 publishing as a
significant force of cultural activity in both contemporary art and
leading-edge academic venues.
In this context, the symposium will question the current corporatized
systems of academic publishing and the commercial-driven art museum and
upmarket gallery systems, as well as serve as a forum to interrogate new
models of collective action for collaborating on, creating, and sharing
scholarship and art. This event has been organised in collaboration with
the Post-Publishing programme (https://www.post-publishing.org) at the
Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University, UK), and forms
part of a series of symposia exploring contemporary approaches to
experimental publishing.
The Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium will
be a hybrid event, with a mix of remote and onsite participation at the
University of Colorado Boulder on Friday, 1 October 2021. This event
will be followed by a “Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA).”
Light breakfast, refreshments and lunch will be provided. We look
forward to seeing you there!
Registration
The event is free and open to all virtually, with in-person registration
limited to 25 people for the symposium and 15 for the COSA. Register
here (url: https://forms.gle/26c1SuDt1pBXwuQWA). Confirmations with zoom
information with be sent the week of the event.
Schedule (Mountain Time)
9:00 Catered breakfast [CBIS, Norlin Library]
9:25 Introductions
9:30 Keynote: Joanna Zylinska (speaking virtually)
9:55 Keynote: Gary Hall (speaking virtually)
10:20 Keynote: Janneke Adema (speaking virtually)
10:45 Q&A with keynote speakers
11:15 Presentation: Danny Snelson (speaking in person)
11:35 Presentation: Davin Heckman (speaking in person)
11:55 Q&A
12:15 Catered Lunch [around the corner in N410, Norlin Library]
12:30-2:30pm Clinic for Open Source Arts [N410, Norlin Library,
speaking in person]
Speakers and Biographies
Keynotes
Joanna Zylinska is a writer, lecturer, artist, curator, and – according
to the ImageNet Roulette’s algorithm – a ‘mediatrix’. She is Professor
of Media Philosophy & Critical Digital Practice in the Department of
Digital Humanities at King’s College London. The author of many books –
including The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (University of
Minnesota Press, 2018), Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017) and
Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2014) – she
is also involved in more experimental and collaborative publishing
projects, such as Photomediations (Open Humanities Press, 2016). Her own
art practice involves playing with different kinds of image-based media.
Gary Hall is Professor of Media in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at
Coventry University, UK, where he co-directs the Centre for Postdigital
Cultures, which brings together media theorists, practitioners,
activists and artists. In 1999 he co-founded the critical theory journal
Culture Machine, an early champion of open access in the humanities,
while in 2006 he co-founded Open Humanities Press, the first open access
publishing house explicitly dedicated to critical and cultural theory.
Recent publications include The Inhumanist Manifesto (Techne Lab, 2017),
Pirate Philosophy (MIT Press, 2016) and The Uberfication of the
University (Minnesota UP, 2016). He is currently completing a monograph
titled Liberalism Must Be Defeated for Joanna Zylinska’s new
Media:Art:Write:Now series.
Janneke Adema (she/her) is a cultural and media theorist working in the
fields of (book) publishing and digital culture. She is an Assistant
Professor in Digital Media at The Centre for Postdigital Cultures
(Coventry University). In her research she explores the future of
scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production,
where her work incorporates processual and performative publishing,
radical open access, post-publishing, scholarly poethics, media studies,
book history, cultural studies, and critical theory. She explores these
issues in depth in her various publications, but also by supporting a
variety of scholar-led, not-for-profit publishing projects, including
the Radical Open Access Collective, Open Humanities Press, ScholarLed,
and Post Office Press (POP), and the Research England and Arcadia funded
Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)
project, on which she is Co-PI. She has recently published her monograph
Living Books. Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021). You
can follow her research on openreflections.wordpress.com.
Clinic for Open Source Arts
Chris Coleman was born in West Virginia and he received his MFA from
SUNY Buffalo in New York. His work includes sculptures, videos, creative
coding and interactive installations. Coleman has had his work in
exhibitions and festivals in more than 25 countries including Brazil,
Argentina, Singapore, Finland, the U.A.E., Italy, Germany, France,
China, the UK, Latvia, and across North America. He currently resides in
Denver, CO and is a Professor of Emergent Digital Practices and the
Director of the Clinic for Open Source Arts at the University of Denver.
The Clinic for Open Source Arts will host conversations around open
source digital tools for creativity. Discussions will include what tools
are out there, issues around using open source at the University, and
how educational institutions can be involved in supporting and
contributing to the open source creative ecosystem.
Speakers
Danny Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Assistant
Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. His online editorial
work can be found on PennSound, Eclipse, UbuWeb, and the EPC. He is the
publisher of Edit Publications and founding editor of the Jacket2
Reissues project. His books include Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984-2000
(Monoskop, 2018), Radios (Make Now, 2016), EXE TXT (Gauss PDF, 2015),
Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread, 2014), and Inventory Arousal with James
Hoff (Bedford Press/Architectural Association, 2011). With Mashinka
Firunts Hakopian and Avi Alpert, he performs as one-third of the
academic performance group Research Service. He is currently developing
a manuscript exploring online collections of art and letters entitled
The Little Database: A Poetics of Formats. His work across media formats
may be found at http://dss-edit.com
Davin Heckman is the author of A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream
of the Perfect Day (Duke UP, 2008). He is Managing Director of the
Consortium on Electronic Literature (cellproject.net) and serves on the
board of the Electronic Literature Organization, electronic book review,
Rhizomes.net, Hyperrhiz, and other venues for experimental media and
theory. He is Professor of Mass Communication at Winona State
University, where he teaches courses on creative digital media
storytelling and media theory.
Sponsors
College of Media, Communication & Information (CMCI), Practice-Based
Research and Digital Humanities Group
Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP)
Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship
Coventry University Centre for Post Digital Cultures
Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT)
TECHNE Lab
Research & Innovation Office
Our Organizers at CU Boulder
Mark Amerika, Professor, Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance, CU Boulder
Melissa Cantrell, Assistant Professor and Scholarly Communications
Librarian, CU Boulder
Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, Assistant Professor and Digital Scholarship
Librarian, CU Boulder
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures
http://www.garyhall.info
Latest:
Book (open access): A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
Chapter (open access): ‘Postdigital Politics’, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons:
https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419
Video: 'Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism: Gary Hall in Conversation with Carolina Rito About A Stubborn Fury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU
Podcasts: 'Writing Against Elitism with "A Stubborn Fury"': https://anchor.fm/aposthumanities/episodes/S2E6-Gary-Hall-Writing-against-elitism-with-A-Stubborn-Fury-e166bip
'The Uberfication of the University - with Gary Hall': https://soundcloud.com/user-230862454/the-uberfication-of-the-university
Blog posts: 'Combinatorial Books - Gathering Flowers', with Janneke Adema and Gabriela Méndez Cota: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-gathering-flowers-part-i/release/1
'Pluriversal Socialism - The Very Idea': http://mediatheoryjournal.org/gary-hall-pluriversal-socialism-the-very-idea/
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