2009 agenda
june 5-7
Presentation of some Pages d’heures at the 7th edition of “Livre à disposition”, entitled Les états généraux resplendissants. This year’s anniversary edition will be held at the prestigious IMEC, Institut mémoires de l’édition contemporaine, in Caen, France. The editorial choice for these model sheets was guided by an ‘attention’ search of NQP.
After all, this personal publication’s main claim was the depletion of its author’s curiosity for the full duration of the fairy tale’s default 7 year time-span.
4×4 pages scrolls on sheets, A2 format, 42×59,8cm. Edition of 3.
may 12-13
My contribution to the May 12-13 Pixel/Print conference in Rotterdam was posted to its weblog. They link me to some of my vintage UbiScribe notes for reference:
UbiScribe pervasive publishing in networked media
read/write access navigate gather/edit store/serve
Focus
content
text, image and sound — for information, review, opinion, fiction
production
writing (including translation), authoring, contextualizing, lay-out, interface, (final) editing?
conduit
Internet/www, mobile media, situated screening and printing, screen/print hybrids?
distribution
web wide/privileged, P2P, addressee customized, periodicity, subscription base, affiliation, on demand?
context
individual, institutional, corporate, event?
memory
retrievable, conservancy, collection, back-issues?
economy
fee, ad-base, tip jar, zero revenue, subsidized?
UbiScribe narrative space
architecture readability scrollscape volumes series
Key
media saturation
pervasive publishing
personal editing
file sharing
multiple front-ends
24/7
Intuition
wild talent wild edit
format abundance containment
content urgency versus information porn
niche-to-niche special interest publishing
site-specific publication
micro publishing content placement
disk-to-server-to-disk management
march 21
As from spring 2009 some of my activities will again be conducted from Amsterdam. For this reason I will more regularly spend longer periods in the Netherlands’ capital. You are kindly invited to contact me for any project proposal which would benefit from my collaboration on it.
The quiet concentration of the Burgundy backwaters puts some limitations on one’s professional and social interaction — my smuggling cultural contraband in and out will be about finding the proper balance for every project, between splendid isolation and promiscuous exposure. To improve the dynamics of smuggling I am beefing up my FaceBook and LinkedIn presence.
2008 updates
4) http://twitter.com/quasime for miscellaneous JK country tweets.
3) Café de Tannay 20 months later:
...and CdT Studio in progress.
2) 22 March 1998-22 March 2008, deplete your attention! Let me quote the first lines written for NQP — if only because I remember that date: year 2 or 1 BB, Before the Blog.
Decide to delay the informatic license document. Instead built this one from scratch.
Lots of activity over the past weeks. Email discussion outbursts on the future of cities with the Amsterdam 2.0 group; on the Doors 5 Play theme, with artist Michael Samyn and webmaster Kristi van Riet; and on the InfoDesign-Café list, on ‘what is information design’. The latter discussion pops up ever once in a while. My VisionPlus paper stretches the envelope on the topic, so I thought I’d give the discussion some attention.
Reflecting on Goldhaber’s attention economy, I remembered I once considered attention a gift. ‘Economy’ of course is the metaphor du jour... How can we potlatch attention?
— The main purpose of the potlatch is of course gift-giving. Every player should arrive with one or more gifts and leave with one or more different gifts. (...) Gifts need not be physical objects. (...) However, it should be recalled that in the Amerindian potlatches the gifts were supposed to be superb & even ruinous to the givers. (quoting Hakim Bey, jk)
Deplete your attention!
1) Design equals content is an interview on design and publishing (released 19 March) in online Issue Magazine, with a live roundtable on Friday 21 March at 6pm (gmt+1), including Arie Altena, Harrisson and myself.
My PostSkypoid to its QandA reads: “For anything the (graphic) designer does let’s not forget that it provides ‘content’, in and by itself. Every bit of information that is put before a public, any publication, is informed by design decisions. Design is an editorial activity as much as proper text and image editing is. With that concept in mind designers and artists get fully involved in the communication and interaction which they support. Design-as-content can never be stripped from the prime content which it visualizes, or from the interaction which it is supposed to facilitate. It works in sync. But its added value can be critiqued, it can be tested against other ways of visualization, and against other editorial interventions. Only if artists-authors and users-recipients consider design content (interface and interaction design), we might get to understand where new media publishing could take the infinite abundance of contemporary issues.”
Next in NQPaOFU: Braving the Elements.
2007 updates
9) Café de Tannay cupboard ouvertures.
8) Urlailleurs... another French project is shaping up: Ibiliber — artist publication research and author-publisher residency. ‘Urlailleurs’ by the way is the working title of a series of web mining book publications with artist book publishers La Fabrique Sensible.
7) Meanwhile... we launched New York based artist Andrea Blum’s site and are taking orders for online and printed artist’s publications.
6) Café de Tannay Studio. Preview of the current restoration project for an artists residence and studio in France.
5) prière de réveil at pagesdheures.lemoulindumerle.com.
4) there’s no one public in the public text. Hardly we see ‘constituency’ inquired, other than by generalisations of ‘community’ around each and every commodity, service, URL.
Recent browsebyes
the Informal Education homepage // infed (the informal education homepage) was established in 1995 as an open, independent and not-for-profit site, put together by a small group of educators whose aim is to provide a space for people to explore the theory and practice of informal education and lifelong learning. In particular, we want to encourage educators to develop ways of working and being that foster association, conversation and relationship.
Freebase // home to a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone. It could be described as a data commons.
3) issues of artistry and ownership (in preparation of my The Address is the Message poster at Collocollaboracontenquery Sunday 15 April coming, in Rotterdam at the occasion of Ubiscribe/DEAF07.
What do contemporary media offer the individual artist in terms of making and sharing work, a process, a critique, a public, a venue, a history, a life? How do media build memories of individual cultural production, how are these memories accessed, evaluated — worked upon, by said artist and by others? Should the ‘address be the message’, I would like to discuss if not indeed ‘address’ is a prime concern of contemporary art, when most notions of an avant-garde or other formal schools (and their representational tools and spaces) have become obsolete, while new, less institutionalized, notions of information sharing, collaboration and publishing, together with new formats of displaying the results of cultural production (read: the work of artists and its reception), arise.
Contemporary art’s address could be very narrow and specific, coming from concentrated artistic attention and feed-back, catered to a very specific ‘audience’, to share very specific interests. Should the address be the message, would not a situated organization around shared interest benefit from new technologies of placing: in storing, publishing, manifesting, gathering — even in timing one’s ‘content’? Wouldn’t a major critique of contemporary art consider how unprecise and (cultural, political) institution dependent it yet is, certainly in its many applications to real world problems? Aside, isn’t ‘political art’ hence the most unprecise and obedient to the dominant system expression of today — unless it articulates a new politics?
2) Now that I am at it, in decent weblog tradition I would like to point your attention to the ubuweb sound archive: ubu.com/sound, where Joke Robaard recently introduced me to Roland Barthes’ Comment vivre ensemble lecture series from 1977, which I only knew in book and CD form. Start downloading. What great material!
1) My attention goes rather undivided to a new project in nearby original center of viniculture Tannay: recovering an ancient café — which’ architectural origins date back to medieval times — to serve as a maison d’amis and ehm, meeting space, working space, possibility space, somewhere this spring. We do interesting finds behind metal faux bois filing cabinets and layers of stucco. We dig and scrape and strip off to bare and refinish. The house has a stone spiral staircase and a large wine cellar.
Meanwhile I only occasionally travel to NL, like to moderate Transformations of Public Space, 15-16 February and a Ubiscribe colloquium in the context of DEAF07, on 15-16 April in Rotterdam. Other work includes a website for/with friend and colleague Andrea Blum and a hesitant start to the Livre d’Heures du Moulin du Merle. Several remakes and restarts of (New)NQP have landed on the shelf. Meanwhile Molenkraam is continued as a ‘documented life’ project, since 2 years.
2006 updates
10 September 2006 - NewNQP is down beyond my control. Not that I have published much there so far. But I thought some who would hit on its internal server error would check here. Meanwhile feel free to browse the NQPaOFU archives. That’s what I do.
July 2006 - NewNQP is the WordPress driven sequel to NQPaOFU. It is published at new.nqpaofu.com, a nqpaofu.com subdomain indeed. Updates will remain advertized and linked through this portal. The NQPaOFU archive I will slowly improve for easy access. For the time being I think the anchor long lists 1 and 2 are your best connection to past content.
I thank Arie Altena and Peter Sneekes for their help in setting up NewNQP in WordPress.
17 May 2006 - minor update anticipating first time visitors coming in from newly linked environments.
3 March 2006 - updated the authorial (linking it to a 1993 text which I hope to re-examine and annotate here: “Far from being foresightful, it is myopic and evasive to forget that most questions that can be posed about the future can more meaningfully and forcefully be posed about the present”) and changed a background color or two to flag for your attention.
2 March 2006 - updated the anchor long list 2 and the other texts sections of this site.
15 February 2006 - www.stemondersteboven.nl is a Dutch call for civic dis-/obedience my dad and I put out for the upcoming nation wide local elections. It propagates to massively first) go and vote this time around; second) vote for political content, not media hullabaloo; third) vote for the last wo-/man on the list, the so called ‘list pusher’ or lijstduwer, usually some media personality who does not aim at party political power but is hired to draw attention at the very end of the list, on what is even by write-in vote an ineligible position. The idea being that a massive vote for the last wo-/man would, if the idea catches on, express an urgent need for direct influence in everyday politics, transparency and possibly — if voters organise locally — pinpoint local tricky matters. Those among you publishing Dutch sites, please spread the news, for it to get some penetration. The elections are only three weeks away...
13 January 2006 - Goodbye and Hello!, a short musing on the habit of saying good-bye and hel-lo, at the Jan van Eyck Academie opening week.
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previous issues (2005)
NQPaOFU 96
P, as in Private; P, as in Public; P, as in Property; P, as in Privilege
NQPaOFU 95
22 February-22 March 2005
NQPaOFU 94
1-22 February 2005
NQPaOFU 93
3-31 January 2005
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authorial
(3 March 2006) soon after the previous kick start again NQP lagged. While a 4 person shared Dutch diary out there keeps record of my daily preoccupations, NQP’s silence ever once in a while begins to itch. Certainly when I come across topical content on my ever sparse browsing journeys. Just keep an eye if you like on NQP as I will try to move it to the foreground of some of my interests and attention. Main current topics: pervasive publishing — inside the book and out; situated (‘geo-located’) content; networked text conservancy; Internet/www history; media rhetoric; information politics; ‘art under information’.
Starting issue 97 soon. Zero Research. Jargonia revisited, on the false promise of progress, as was thought about 13 years ago, published in Mediamatic print, The Exuberant Publicness of the Promised World, or in the original Dutch, De Uitzinnige Openbaarheid van de Beloofde Wereld. I'll take it from there.
(22 July 2005) Publishing resumed. Quietly stripping bare the site.
(22 March 2005) Publishing pause for NQPaOFU.
(3 January 2005) From issue 93 a next design replaces the framed posts of issues 67 through 92, with the latter already trying to escape its format. Most importantly I move the main navigation to the bottom of the document, linking from the publication’s title head. Anyway it is questionable where people enter the text, coming from random outside reference, as many still do.
(14 March 2004) I give up refering to this publication as a weblog. Hence no more dates but in the source and the index, as update dates.
(1 January 2004) From the local archive I dig up a never published Y2K issue. I cut, photoshop and paste one of its snow flakes for issue 80, meanwhile..., as well as I did for the issue 79, Bangalore-Kovalam, India background, the pink thing on the wallpaper. I tweek the portal index.html to fit with the issues interface. I add the anchor long list (240k and counting) for past issue slow dive.
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