Geert Lovink - Mobility Shifts | The New School

The New School (http://www.newschool.edu) presents Geert Lovink - Do-It-Together: Digital Publishing Experiments at the Institute of Network Cultures a part of a panel on The Future of Learning: Academic Publishing, Peer to Peer Grading and Text Books panel - a part of Mobility Shifts (http://mobilityshifts.org/) a panel on Digital Fluencies for the 21st Century Just as its enthusiasts say, the digital revolution has empowered individuals to create and publish their own content through cheap, easy-to-use tools and platforms. But there are a few complications. To explore this perplexing landscape - and reacting to the often slow and conservative arena of academic publishing - the Amsterdam-based Institute of Network Cultures (INC) has developed a number of publishing series of its own. This lecture gives an overview of INC's practice-based research into different publishing strategies: free newspapers, open access journal software, a book series in collaboration with a traditional publisher (NAi), digital typography experiments, print-on-demand offerings through Lulu and the Expresso Book Machine and various reading platforms from pdf and HTML 5 to e-pub and Scribd. This initiative is ultimately a political project: perhaps to confound older systems that are starting to crumble anyway, while in the meantime building alternative, sustainable models for free cooperation and knowledge production. Geert Lovink, founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and net critic. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and in 2003 was at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. In 2004 Lovink was appointed as Research Professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Associate Professor at University of Amsterdam. He is the founder of Internet projects such as nettime and fibreculture and recently organized research networks, conferences and publications on the culture of search, online video, urban screens, critique of creative industries, digital publishing and global Wikipedia research. His recent book titles are Dark Fiber (2002), Uncanny Networks (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007) and Networks without a Cause (2011). Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue - Friday October 14th 2011, 5:00-7:30 pm