Silvio Lorusso (IUAV) The P—DPA: An Inventory of Speculative Strategies + Discussion
Channel: Disruptivemedia
Date: 20/10/2014

Recently launched, the Post-Digital Publishing Archive (P—DPA) is an online platform to systematically collect, organise and keep trace of art and design experiences at the intersection of publishing and digital technology. Filling a gap in the discussion, which is generally led by the narrative of innovation, P—DPA focuses on projects that investigate the social, cultural and economic dynamics of publishing through a DIY approach, custom tools and counterintuitive employment of popular platforms. Like every archive, P—DPA embodies a specific attitude that is mainly expressed by the criteria employed to select the works and by the multiple relations among them. How can the materiality of such works be properly defined through a categorisation system? What technological, processual and signifying aspects need to be taken into account? By acting as an inventory of speculative strategies, P—DPA aims to become a reference point for designers and artists interested in publishing and indirectly extend its very notion.

Currently literary media are changing ­ again ­ with the read-write controlled consumption interfaces of e-books, smart phones, tablets and web 2.0 reading-writing platforms. In this short talk, Pold aims to sketch out how we can apply an interface criticism to these changes in order to find out how the contemporary literary and cultural interfaces are structured and how they can be explored critically and reflexively in art practice.

Part of the seminar 'The aesthetics of the humanities: towards a poetic knowledge production'

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