INTRODUCTION

Our project of a website about graphic design and media (in a broad sense) is meant to create a place on the web to publish critical materials, and to open to discussion. Numerous blogs on graphic design or media already exist, and their number is growing in an exponential way. They usually consists in a collection of announcements, hyperlinks, personal statements… usually from a single and sometimes few authors, and regularly updated. Besides them, theoretical texts do exist (Eye, Emigre, Dot Dot Dot…) but their presence on the web, in the case they have an online version, is not as strong as their printed version: they usually just reproduce their articles without using the potential of the internet.

Internet is a distributed media, and gives in theory the possibility for everybody to elaborate the content. So, It interfers with a general printed based paradigm, with publishers and authors on one hand, and readers on the other hand. But if everybody can be an author, it brings the problematic of his authority.

So we want to publish, organized around a theme, new or existing texts, interviews, critiques, analysis on graphic design with new methods of access and appropriation. The nature of the different contents of a theme can vary. It can be a regular text, or an interview, an interview by episodes (for example, if we interview by mail, each answer of the interview will be added when received by the author), a video/audio interview. These contents can be made by ourselves, by people we ask to, or by the users (we could make a general call for contributions for the next theme). A theme can also provide "live" events. We would like to try different possibilities:

• live interview audio or textual, that gives the possibility to users to react via a chat
• a chat with users about a question in relation to the theme;
• a "live" collaborative text that can be augmented for a given amount of time by a few invited people;
• …

Every live event will be archived afterwards in the website.

The first theme would be about publishing online. For the interviews, we thought about Daniel Eatock who refused, Jouke Kleerebezem who accepted and David Reinfurt (still waiting for an answer).

Jouke Kleerebezem

http://www.nqpaofu.com/∞
http://www.idie.enclavexquise.com∞
http://www.misenmedia.com∞
http://www.ubiscribe.net/∞
http://www.enclavexquise.com/∞
http://www.nqpaofu.com/offgoogle/∞
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/4_4_cv/cv_d_kle.html∞

David Reinfurt

http://o-r-g.com∞
http://dextersinister.org∞
http://welcometolab.com∞

LINKS

editing platforms

http://indexhibit.org∞
http://drupal.org∞
Flash theme for Wordpress http://motionandcolor.com∞ — http://motionandcolor.com/wrapper∞
Ajax, Scriptaculous theme for Wordpress http://www.bloxpress.org/demo/∞

publishing

ubiscribe http://www.ubiscribe.net∞
ubuweb http://www.ubu.com∞
mute magazine http://www.metamute.org∞
openmute http://www.openmute.org∞
lulu http://www.lulu.com∞
rosab http://www.rosab.net/∞ New online magazine: first issue on Edition

misc.

The Frankfurt Kitchen http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1331_modernism/highlights_18.html∞
Transliteracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteracy∞
Production and Research in Transliteracy http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/blogs/part/∞

TEXTS

O'DOHERTY, Brian, Inside the white cube: the ideology of the gallery space
Making Things Public, Atmosheres of Democracy, edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/expositions/002_parliament.html∞
CHARTIER, Roger, "Readers and Readings in the Electronic Age", http://www.text-e.org/conf/index.cfm?ConfText_ID=5∞
ECO, Umberto, "Authors and Authority", http://www.text-e.org/conf/index.cfm?ConfText_ID=11∞