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Baltan Session: The Tools Series #6

30/05/2012 11:00 to 19:00 

THE REMIXED BOOK
A workshop led by Alessandro Ludovico

time: 11:00 – 17:00 (workshop for max 10-12 participants)
17:00 – 19:00 public presentation of workshop results and drinks
location: Onomatopee, Bleekstraat 23, Eindhoven
A collaboration between Baltan Laboratories and Onomatopee

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This workshop will focus on the ‘remixed book’ and the ‘digital scrapbook’. Participants will work together to find and scan sample chapters or parts from printed books (samples should mainly be chapters, or other printed materials of one page or more in length). They will then remix these samples into new publications. Other participants will work on ‘digital scrapbooks’. They will integrate printed scraps with digital ones (taken from the web or other digital sources and then printed) in the space of a classic scrapbook. The end results of the workshop will be one-off printed publications that reflect the hybrid nature of the printed medium and its relationship to the digital realm.

Alessandro Ludovico is the editor and publisher of Neural, a magazine for new media arts, and lives in Bari, Italy. For more than twenty years, he has been working at the edges and fringes of print publishing and politically engaged digital art.

SCHEDULE

11:00-11:30 Introduction by Alessandro + a look at the book scanner
11:30-12:00 A look at the theme of the workshop
12:00-13:00 Groups are formed around specific material and interests. First choices are made about what material people want to scan, and why.
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Scanning and remixing and scrapbooking
16:00-16:45 Putting things together in a presentable format. Documenting projects.
16:45-17:00 Short break.
17:00-18:00 Introduction by Alessandro to the topic and results of the day. Introduction of participants and presentations by each group about their remixed books or scrapbooks.
18:00-19:00 Drinks and snacks

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