publishing constitutes a public
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Read text version of presentation here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6GECLe4i1KCNlSDaX8pq7Jmor2pocj1zm4COAQRQbs/edit?usp=sharing Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group and The People’s E-book will present an overview of their current and past projects in order to showcase the different community-based funding models they use to support their practice. They will present an artistic production and publishing practice rooted in both the physical and digital worlds, and how their experiences shaped the building of The People’s E-book. The People’s E-Book is a free e-book creation platform for artists, authors, and alternative presses who want to experiment, publish new types of books, and push into new territory. After raising almost three times its Kickstarter goal in 2013, The People’s E-book is now in beta and its community is outputting reflowable .ePubs for free everyday.TRANSCRIPT
Publishing Constitutes a Public
Eleanor Hanson Wise & Oliver WiseThe Present Group @thepresentgroupThe People’s E-book @peoples_e
“A public is a space of discourse organized by nothing other than discourse itself. It is
autotelic; it exists only as the end for which books are published, shows broadcast,
websites posted, speeches delivered, opinions produced. It exists by being addressed.”
–Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics
Publishing creates a public.
A public enables publishing.
-Amanda Palmer
“When you ask people, you connect with them. And when you connect with people, they want
to help you….
Celebrity is about a lot of people loving you from a distance.” [the internet has changed that distance] “It’s about a few people loving
you up close, and those people being enough.”
The Present Group Art Subscription Service,
2006-2011
• limited editions commissioned and published 3 or 4x per year
• edition size related to subscriber base• catalogue essay and interview for each
gif-iti.tumblr.com handpainted animated street art
'Hollywood Dooom'by INSA x Stanley Donwood
5 improvisations within the mundane to affirm the present moment, Aaron GM,
2011, Issue 18 of TPG Art Subscription
Sometimes a book isn’t a book.• 360 degree navigation /
interaction
Art Micro Patronage
Online E-Book Creator: Free, visual, quick
The People’s E-book: The Photocopier of the internet.
an ex t by David Horvitz and Lauren van
Haaften-Schick, forthcomingA book doesn’t have to be static
There is a moment of course when the disappearer might re-consider their position. !!After all, there are bills to pay and future generations that may want to know. !They might think, I might not really want to do this right now, or, those people aren’t really so bad, or, the show was supposed to go on. !!!!After all, there are bills to pay and future generations that may want to know. !They might think, I might not really want to do this right now, or, those people aren’t really so bad, or, the show was supposed to go on.!!!!They might think, I might not really want to do this right now, or, those people aren’t really so bad, or, the show was supposed to go on.
Artists help push technology forward
Sonia Landy Sheridan, Artist in Residence, 3M’s Color Research Lab, 1971 & 1976!Xerox PAIR at Xerox PARC, Artist in Residence Program, started 1993, no longer active
Thank You! Eleanor Hanson Wise @thepresentgroup Oliver Wise @owise1