Welcome to the second week of this discussion about open source writing and
publishing on empyre. Firstly I would like to thank Tiziana Terranova and
Dmytri Kleiner for the dynamic discussion they have established, as well as all
those who also posted emails to the thread. I hope they can remain engaged as
we move into our second week.
To recap the theme: in a globalised and highly mediated context we wish to
focus empyre discussion on how writing and publishing are currently evolving in
the context of global networks. We wish to engage a debate about open models of
writing and publishing. We hope to gain some insight into how changes in
notions and practices of authorship, media, form, dissemination, intellectual
property and economics affect writing and publishing as well as the formation
of the reader/writerships, communities and social engagement that must flow
from that activity. Specifically, we wish to look at examples of open
publishing, whether they be FLOSS manuals, copyLeft or CopyFarLeft or other
publication models, in order to look at new methods for knowledge making and
distribution. We also wish to consider how communities of shared-value emerge
through such initiatives and how their members are able to identify themselves
to one another and others.
This week's facilitator is Penny Travlou and our guests are Adam Hyde and
Salvatore Ianconesi.
Adam Hyde lives in Berlin. In 2007 Adam started FLOSS Manuals, a community for
producing free manuals for free software. Through this work he also started
Booki (a book production platform) and has been pioneering Book Sprints - a
methodology for collaboratively producing books in 5 days or less. Previously,
as an artist, he was 1/2 of r a d i o q u a l i a, Simpel and other artistic
projects engaging open source and free media.
Salvatore Iaconesi teaches cross media design at “La Sapienza” University of
Rome, at Rome University of Fine Arts and at ISIA Design in Florence. He is the
founder of Art is Open Source and of FakePress Publishing, focusing on the
human beings' mutations through ubiquitous technologies and networks.
Penny Travlou is a cultural geographer and ethnographer lecturing in the
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University
of Edinburgh. Her research currently focuses on studying emergent network-based
creative communities. She is Co-Investigator on the ELMCIP project
(www.elmcip.net).
best
Simon
Simon Biggs
si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK skype:
simonbiggsuk
s.bi...@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.elmcip.net/
http://www.movingtargets.co.uk/
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