[spectre] Printed Strategies, printed matter in a digital environment

[Alessandro Ludovico]

Printed Strategies, printed matter in a digital environment

Neural magazine continues to celebrate 15 years of publishing teaming 
up with Ink-Elektro, a print on demand focused cultural association. 
A workshop held by Simon Worthington (UK) and Nat Muller (NL) will 
inform about the current strategies of publishing in different 
contexts in the ever changing online/offline publishing relationship.

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February 21 and 22, 2009, from 9AM to 6PM
Meridia Consortium, Bari (Italy)
http://www.inkelektro.com/

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"Paper Dreams: the Mute paper and pixel experience"
Simon Worthington
Mute experience is quite unique in exploring new and innovative ways 
of conjugating an ethical and sustainable printed production with the 
myriad of possibilities of online technologies. Their projects and 
experiments has shed light on a different future for independent 
publishing.

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"Precarious Printing: Contextual Tales of  Publishing in the Middle East"
Nat Muller
What are the hurdles and difficulties of print publishing and 
distribution in a region which is politically volatile? Moreover, 
when does print make sense and when doesn't it?  What has happened to 
the age-old adage of "Cairo Writes, Beirut Publishes and Baghdad 
reads"? A few case studies and personal anecdotes are analyzed and 
contextualized.

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Biographies:

Simon Worthington (UK)
Is co-director and co-founder of the cyberculture magazine Mute and 
Mute organisation, London, and has been involved in various projects 
with the latter. In addition he is co-founder of 'Mag.Net (Electronic 
Cultural Publishers organization).
http://www.metamute.org

Nat Muller (NL)
Is an independent curator and critic based (mostly) in Rotterdam. She 
has held positions as staff curator at V2_, Institute for Unstable 
Media (Rotterdam) and De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics 
(Amsterdam). Her main interests include: the intersections of 
aesthetics, media and politics; visual culture, (new) media and art 
in the Middle East. She has published articles in off- and online 
media. She has taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy (NL), ALBA 
(Beirut), the Lebanese American University (Beirut) and the American 
University of Dubai (UAE). She is curator-in-residence at the 
Townhouse Gallery in Cairo from April 2008 to April 2009.
http://www.labforculture.org/en/labforculture/blogs/10739
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Alessandro Ludovico
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