Wednesday 28th March 2018
Doors Open: 19:00
Time: 19:30
Location: Worm
Free Admission
Special Issue 5 - OuNuPo
XPUB, Varia and WORM invite you for an evening of book scanning, short
presentations, discussions and software experiments in the context of text
digitisation and processing.
OuNuPo, Ouvroir de Numérisation Potentielle, the workshop of potential
digitisation.
From January until the end of March 2018 the practitioners of the Media Design
Experimental Publishing Master course (XPUB) of the Piet Zwart Institute, in
collaboration with Manetta Berends & Cristina Cochior (Varia) and the WORM
Pirate Bay, have set sail on the vast sea of DIY book scanning, feminist
research methodologies, constraint writing, algorithmic literature and the
cultures of text digitisation and processing.
The term OuNuPo is derived from OuLiPo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle),
founded in 1960. OuLiPo is a mostly French speaking
gathering of writers and mathematicians interested in constrained writing
techniques. A famous technique is for instance the lipogram
that generates texts in which one or more letters have been excluded. OuLiPo
eventually led to OuXPo to expand these creative constraints to other practices
(OuCiPo for film making, OuPeinPo for painting, etc). Following this expansion,
XPUB launches OuNuPo, Ouvroir de Numérisation Potentielle, the workshop of
potential digitisation, turning the book scanner as a platform for media design
and publishing experiments.
In the past three months, the XPUB practioners have used the OuNuPo as a means
to reflect on several topics: how culture is shaped by book scanning? Who has
access and who is excluded from digital culture? How free software and open
source hardware have bootstrapped a new culture of librarians? What happens to
text when it becomes data that can be transformed, manipulated and analysed ad
nauseam?
To answer these questions, the XPUB practitioners have written software and
assembled a unique printed reader, informed by critical and feminist research
methodologies and that explore the themes of the digital transfer of cultural
biases, Techno/Cyber/Xeno-Feminism, orality in the context of knowledge
sharing, shadow libraries, database narratives, gender and future librarians.
The content of the reader will be scanned by a DIY book scanner built in the
past months, and processed by different software processes and performances
written by the XPUB practitioners, from chat bots to concrete poetry generators
and speech recognition feedback loops.
For more information:
[https://issue.xpub.nl/05](https://pzwart.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=46cd0b1375588de7d555236dc&id=78075d054f&e=e9acc98463)
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