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Sounds of Making: Protocols for Collective Performance

Date: 20th November 2024
Time: 15:00 – 20:00
Location: UBIK (Worm, Boomgaardsstraat 71, 3012 XA Rotterdam)

XPUB 1, in collaboration with WORM, invites you to participate in our first public event on November 20th. Through a series of experiments at Radio WORM, we’ve been asking ourselves: What is radio? What does it mean to “go live” and perform together? Imagine the thrill—and the nerves—of creating something live, using your voice, thoughts, and experimental sounds that use little to no conventional means of expression. More info, worm event link

This event is free and made possible with the financial support of the Network for Archives of Design and Digital Culture.

vulnerable interfaces - XPUB graduation show 2024

Opening Thursday 27th June 19:00 - 21:00
Exhibition Friday 28th June – Sunday 30th June 12:00 – 18:00
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Come to our graduation show at WORM’s Slash Gallery in Rotterdam! We are Stephen, Irmak, Aglaia, and Ada; four graduating students of Experimental Publishing. Experience our graduation projects, skim through our publications, and take part in our performances. On the opening evening there will be: 🍥 a performance of edible stories —come a little hungry inside, 🐝 chances to experience an interactive picture book — bring kids aged 7-80, 📇 performative bureaucratic reading sessions — come with a bureaucratic document that stresses you out and 😴 plays about work — bring your dreams and anxieties. ✼ ✼

Dumped Printers Modding Workshop

Dumped Printers Modding Workshop Thursday 25th April 2024 @ 10:00-16:00
WH.04.115 (Aquarium 4th floor Wijnhaven)

In this dumped printers modding workshop, we investigate the inner workings of a printer. With a DIY and DIWO approach we disassemble and reassemble printers “differently”. Why? We all are frustrated by the fact that printers often do not work!

More information: https://xpub.nl/2024/dpmw/

Special Issue #23: Peripheral centers and feminist servers

Peripheral centers and feminist servers
THURSDAY 28 MARCH @ 19:00-21:30
PRESENTATION @ 19:30 VARIA (Gouwstraat 3)

Peripheral centers and feminist servers investigate multiple approaches to the conditions of serving. It interrupts the endless flow of data that fuels the economy, exposing the cracks and gaps of the techno-scientific paradigm imposed on society. Where commands are executed, connections made, trust exchanged, and resources shared.

This feminist data center brings to light the physical infrastructure and actual labour which enable the processes we perform every day. In this exploration, we think through feminist approaches that reveal the concealed layers of our on(off)line interactions. We broaden our understanding of how this tangible, energy-intensive infrastructure truly operates behind the seemingly innocent notion of the ‘cloud’.

The various projects within Peripheral centers and feminist servers expose their infrastructure, emphasizing the material conditions of their production. We advocate that the fairy tale of immateriality has real socio-economic-environmental consequences.

PEN PLOTTING PARTY*

PEN PLOTTING PARTY*
MONDAY 12.FEB 6PM*
@Xpub Studio WH 4.f*

exciting news everyone: To kick of the new plotting-year there will be a PEN PLOTTING PARTY* on Monday feb 12. Save the date, and get ready for the launch of the PEN PLOTTING TABLE, PEN PLOTTING ZINE alongside various PEN PLOTTING ACTIVITIES*.

Not close to Rotterdam this day? Don’t worry and join us online for TWITCH™ PLAYS PLOTTER* (ref).

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More information: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/PEN-PLOTTING-PARTY/

Special Issue #22: Signal Lost: Archive Unzipped – 7 Dec @ WORM

– — Radio makers, listeners and electromagnetic wave enthusiasts, do you copy? — – – In the middle of an on-going apocalypse what should be preserved, and what forgotten?

Join us IRL on 7 December in the efforts of scavenging and resurrecting a sonic archive. It is only a question of time until all will be lost. Lend an ear as we collectively explore, activate and transmit the archive of Worm community Radio. We must listen closely, we must decide what remains and how we can rebuild upon a fractured past. BYOR (Bring your own Radio).

Become absorbed by a re-imagined reality through an archival deep-dive! Prepare (with us) for the event – – — and tune in to Radio WORM on 5 December at 10.00 for further instructions — – –.

• Date: 7 December
• Location: Wunderbar & Pirate Bay WORM, Rotterdam
• Open doors: 18:00
• Duration: 19:00 – 22:00
• More information: https://issue.xpub.nl/22/

SUMMONS! 7 NOV 19:00, Leeszaal

You have been summoned by Experimental Publishing second year (XPUB2) students! Feel free to join them on the 7th of November at Leeszaal West. The evening aims to make their graduation proposals public and open for judgement :)

✨ XPUB at Zine Camp 2023! ✨

4 + 5 November, Worm

https://zinecamp2023.hotglue.me/

We will bring publications and zines in diverse forms from current and past projects (Special Issues and Graduation works) 📚. And you can meet and talk with tutors and students from the program!

Come and visit the XPUB stall this weekend: Saturday 4 + Sunday 5 November.

Making Things Bubblic 🫧: Experimental Publishing Graduation Show & Shop 2023

https://worm.org/production/opening-experimental-publishing-graduation-show-shop-2023-making-things-bubblic-%f0%9f%ab%a7/

WORM S/ash Gallery
Boomgaardsstraat 69, Rotterdam

Opening: Thursday 29th June (18:00 - 22:30)

• 20:00 Commencement speech by Erica Gargaglione and Kimberley Cosmilla and XPUB1 presentation
• 21:00 Performance by mitsitron (mitsa chaida)

Expo runs Friday 30th June (12:00 - 21:00) - Sunday 2nd July (12:00 - 18:00)

• 12:00 - 13:00 on Friday + Saturday + Sunday

Free Collective lunch served daily, everyone is welcome!
Small loaf of Minor Stories by Chaeyoung Kim will be served on the side…

• 16:00 on Saturday

Performance by mitsitron (mitsa chaida)

• 13:00 on Sunday

Reading: “To whom it may affect” by Kimberley Cosmilla

WARM UP: Broadcasts on Radio WORM, hosted by Ål Nik (Alexandra Nikolova) and Gersande Schellinx.

• Friday 23rd June 20:00 - 21:00
  
• Tuesday 27th June 19:00 - 20:00
  

Special Issue #21 starts from a single technical object: a teletype machine. The teletype is the meeting point between typewriters and computer interfaces, a first automated translator of letters into bits. Equipped with a keyboard, a transmitter and a punchcard read-writer, it is a historical link between early transmission technology such as the telegraph and the Internet of today.

Guest Editor: Martino Morandi

Course syllabus
Video documentation

Special Issue #20: Console, was launched March 31, 2023, at Page Not Found in Den Haag.

Course syllabus
Video documentation
Mini site

not-just-a-fair: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 7-9 April

XPUB students + staff will be on hand at the not-just-a-fair .

Come meet students + staff in person, and sample recent and in-progress publications!

XPUB@zinecamp

XPUB was a proud participant in 2022’s edition of zinecamp Rotterdam @ WORM. Watch the video impression, featuring current and past XPUB/Media Design staff and students: Clara Balaguer, Aymeric Mansoux, Mara Karagianni, joak and a plotter, and more!

Walkie Talkie

The XPUB 2022 graduation was hosted at Worm and the academy.

Special Issue #19: garden ? @ leeszaal

Special Issue #19 was launched in December, 2023 at Leeszaal, a local library and community center in Rotterdam West.

Queerying Wikidata

XPUB, Anaïs Berck and queer artivist/wikimedian Z. Blace join forces to explore automatic writing experiments querying and queering Wikidata.

Paged.js Workshop

Julie Blanc and Julien Taquet from the paged.js project share their experiences at the intersection of design practice and technical standards.

Paged.js is a rendering tool for previewing, inspecting and designing a PDF in the browser, that is known for specifically accommodating designers using web-to-print techniques in their publications and book making practice. Julie and Julien both work (or have worked) as developers on the project, so the workshop gave students an opportunity to ask them about Paged.js as an open source project, and what it means to develop and maintain it. A nice example of paged.js in action is Walkie Talkie, the 2022 XPUB graduation catalog.

X-unPub

XPUB first years students presented their work during Special Issue #18 at a residency in Paris.

SWAAT #00

Software with an Attitude (SWAAT), Issue #00

Zine edited by Manetta Berends and Michael Murtaugh reflecting on the experiences of teaching programming and alternative tools in the context of the XPUB Prototyping class.

Zine (pdf)
Printable A5 booklet (pdf)

Screen Walk with Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam-Abbing

Online presentation by Aymeric Mansoux & Roel Roscam-Abbing including a description of XPUB as an example of making “systemic shifts” with alternative infrastructure.