XPUB publication 2025

📢 collective publication making

part of XPUB2 trimester 3 and the Gradshow XPUB 2025

LINKS

• final content pads: XPUB_publication_2023-2025_Concept&Editorial#Final_Content
• Publication (in progress): https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/floating/publication/
• Git repository: https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/floating
• Stylesheet: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/css-day
• Notes: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-2023-2025
• Session summaries: see below

publication groups

• design: anita, senka, Victor, Mania
  • https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-design-group_2025
  • Graduation planning 2025 design (parallel process with the general gradshow design)
• proofreading: Riviera
• printing & binding: Wang, zuzu, Alessia https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-binding-group_2025
• budget: riviera (see Graduation Budget Tips for budget related details)
• conceptual thinking & editorial: Bernadette, Thijs, Lorenzo, senka, Michel, Victor
  • Pad for conceptual & editorial work
  • XPUB publication 2023-2025 Concept&Editorial
• licensing: Maria https://pad.xpub.nl/p/licensing
• meeting organisation: Manetta, unless someone wants to practice this and wants to take over :)
• 🔔the bucket police/debt collectors/legal advice: Lorenzo (All cops are buckets)
• website group: Bernadette & Rosa (also do gradshow website - could be combined)

How to add images to the publication?

You can upload your images anywhere! It does not matter. To include them in the publication, they just need to be online somewhere.

Here are upload options:

• wiki: upload your images there
• chopchop: upload your images in your public_html
• project.xpub.nl page: copy the link of the image if you already uploaded it there

Then to include the image:

• copy the URL
• find your folder on the GIT (see below)
• paste the URL, and wrap it into the markdown syntax:

![caption here](https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/d/de/Userpage_si23.gif)

Upload 2 images to your project page:

• these are pictures representing your final work
• you can add them to: /content/interviews/YOURFOLDER/project.md

Upload 2/3 images to your interview page:

• these are pictures representing your process
• you can add them to: /content/interviews/YOURFOLDER/index.md

session #1

Monday 7 April

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-2023-2025

What would you like to read about someone else's research?

[name]: <what you would like to read>

What would you like to read about the Special Issues you were involved in?

[special issue]: 

What would you like to publish from your own research?

[name]: 

What publication format/medium would fit for this?

When producing a publication, how can the work be divided into different roles/groups?

Which role would you like to pick up?

session #2 (optional)

Tuesday 8 April

• exploring publication formats/workflows hands-on

Graph made during this session

• pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/publishing-workflows-exploration
• code: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/publishing-workflows-exploration/workflows.dot + https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/publishing-workflows-exploration/refresh.sh
• output: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/publishing-workflows-exploration/ (pdf, svg, png)

To generate a new graph:

$ ssh USERNAME@chopchop
$ cd /var/www/html/publishing-workflows-exploration/
$ sh refresh.sh

summary

• notes of the conversation can be found on this pad:

session #3

Monday 14 April

Agenda:

• look at publications that we all brought
• present workflow graph (see above)
• read conversation notes all together (see above)
• check in with groups (if there has been progress already?)
• split into groups
• tasks for next meeting

Summary:

• we looked at quite a lot of different publications/books/magazines/web publications (notes are on the pad) to get a feeling of different (mainly printed) publications, binding types, tone, ... It was very broad still
• we did a couple of temperature checks, to see what the main direction of the publication could be (votes are on the pad)
• we made a Zulip stream (you should be added to it) and @usergroups that can be used to communicate between groups
• we formed publication groups (production groups for the publication), they can be found at the top of the wiki page (this one)! These groups are not static, you can move or join a group at any time. Just add yourself to the list on the wiki page, and ping me (Manetta) to adjust the usergroups on Zulip
• each of the publication groups had an initial 30 min meeting
• during next meeting (in a month) all the groups are asked to come with proposals that need a full group discussion
• in the meantime, we will use Zulip to communicate between groups

session #4

Monday 12 May

Agenda:

• check in with groups

Notes of today's session: can be found at line 235 of the publication pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-2023-2025

The following decisions were made:

• interviews will be used to add a conversational tone to the publication (next to a graduation project section for everyone)
• the interviews will be done in one long chain (see below)
  • the decision for this and format of the chain will be introduced clearly in the publication
• the editorial + design group will prepare an interview instruction message, and send this out this week (16 May latest)
• interviews take place next week (19-25 May)
• the interviews will contain one shared question: "What does floating mean to you? Are you floating?"
  • it is still open if the question is to be used as an opening question of the interview, or can appear anywhere in the interview (editorial/design group will decide on this??)
• the website group will try to arrange overlap between the publication materials and website materials as much as possible, and jump in to set up a web-to-print workflow
• the publication will be glue-bound

the continuous chain

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Alessia
    language
Maria
    networks
Riviera
    performance
Michel
    queerness
Senka
    non-linearity
Thijs
    video games
Bernadette
    economics
Victor
    obsolete media
Rosa
    sound
Wang
    interaction
Anita
    everyday
Mania
    nearby
Zuzu
    city
Lorenzo
    virtual

cover

session #5

Monday 26 May

submit interviews before today

on the agenda for today:

• design group check in
• website/workflow
• budget question

Notes of today's morning: can be found on the pad, from line 637

a summary:

• Anita shared sketches that she and Senka made for the banners and posters of the gradshow:

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• Victor and Mania shared sketches for the layout:

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• Rosa shared sketches for the website made by Bernadette:

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• Rosa presented a proposal for a workflow to make the website and publication on chopchop:

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• Two questions remain:
  • What role does the chain have in the publication?
  • What role does "floating" have in the publication?

• What could the subtitle of the gradshow be? "between this and that" sounds cool, but stays a bit vague.. We decided that the chain words be used here, like: "between language and networks" and use different subtitles
  • In response to this, Victor and Riviera made some sketches for this during the session:

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• the graphviz work is continued by Riviera + Mania + Anita
• Rosa is setting up the workflow on chopchop
• the editorial group is meeting

session #6

Tuesday 10 June

Agenda

• look at the first full draft of the publication!
• look at printed dummies?
• discuss license(s)
• discuss budget questions
• project.xpub.nl: logo + who makes the index page?
• making of text?
• timeline
• ...

Summary

• everyone is asked to upload 5 images for the publication, you can find a howto here: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/XPUB_publication_2023-2025#How_to_add_images_to_the_publication%3F
• we will meet on Monday the 23rd of June at 10:00, to check in with each other to see what needs to be done
• we divided some tasks:
  • anita will organize the paper
  • holding group will send poster out
  • website group will update https://floating.xpub.nl, before the communication will go out
  • distributing posters: everyone will get A3 versions of the posters that bernadette will print
  • lorenzo and riviera will put the timeline somewhere (probably kanboard)
  • victor will draft a colophon
  • manetta will write a making of text for the publication
  • printing/binding group energy now includes: Anita, bernadette, victor, mania, maria, alessia?, wang, zuzu
  • we decided to go for 1 license for the whole publication: the CC4r, any comments/thoughts can be send to Maria before tomorrow evening
  • riviera will make a wiki page for the 600 EUR collective budget, where the expenses can be tracked
  • (added later) we decided to make 100 copies

session #7

Monday 23 June

10:00: collective check in! to see what needs to be done (gradshow related in general + publication related)!

gradshow

Thursday 3 - Sunday 6 July

• launch publication