At the occasion of the launch of the magazine, we will set up a live round table, as a chat session, moderated by Arie Altena, with Jouke Kleerebezem and Harrisson.

Arie Altena, Moderator

Arie has a background in Literary Theory but shifted his writing/critic activity towards the new media since 1994. He was also editor at Mediamatic magazine, and worked for Metropolis M. He now works as an editor/researcher at V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, and teaches theory at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. He took part to the Ubiscribe project when he was at the Jan van Eyck Academie.

Jouke Kleerebezem

Jouke is very hard to present because of the multiple activities he has done: design, art, curating, writing, publishing... He was also advising researcher until 2006 at the Jan van Eyck Academie, notably setting up the Ubiscribe project.

He has been strongly engaged in Internet and new media since 1994. We first knew about him for his harsh critique of the First Things First manifesto, and then his writings concerning the Web, blogs, etc.

He now lives in Burgundy in France, restoring an old manor to transform it into an art residence.

Harrisson

Harrisson is a French graphic designer and typographer based in Liege and Brussels. Open Source practice is strongly present in all of his works and concerns. He created with Pierre Huyghebaert, Nicolas Maleve and Femke Snelting the Open Source Publishing project.

Harrisson was also a researcher in the Tomorrow Book Project lead at the Jan van Eyck Academie with advising researchers such as Jouke Kleerebezem, and Daniel van der Velden.

This magazine is meant to be a place of discussion around critical materials, about graphic design in a broad sense, with a focus on new media.

The reason why we made this project is in a way explained through this first theme "publishing online" (and probably through all the themes we will cover afterwards). But in résumé, besides we wanted to share a certain kind of materials, it was important to us to create a place of discussion and critique. The existing platforms such as blogs or wikis don't fit for what we intended to. Either there are no possibilities to comment the content — or it is in a very general way by giving a general appreciation. Therefore the interface has been thought in order to help the confrontation of the different texts, and their discussion/critique. The different times to post the different texts has been set up in order to take time to read and comment each text.

This first issue is not completely as we imagined the project to be. This will hopefully be fixed within the next issue: French translation, printable version, advanced search tool, content gathering, etc. We would like the project to be collaborative, we are opened to any kind of contribution in short or long term.

Alexandre Leray and Stéphanie Vilayphiou — contact us

This magazine is meant to be a place of discussion around critical materials, about graphic design in a broad sense, with a focus on new media. The interface has been designed in order to help confronting the different contents and making precise, critical comments.

The magazine is organized around themes; the first one would be about publishing online, with texts and interviews from/with David Reinfurt, Jouke Kleerebezem and Roger Chartier.

A text is added each day to leave time to people to read and comment them.

Monday, 17^th March

• Launch of the magazine
• Editorial
• "One Possible Scenario for a Collective Future"
  by David Reinfurt
• Chat announcement

Tuesday, 18^th March

• Open Source for Publishing and Graphic Design
  interview with David Reinfurt

Wednesday, 19^th March

• Interview with Jouke Kleerebezem

Thursday, 20^th March

• "Readers and Readings in the Electronic Age"
  by Roger Chartier

Friday, 21^st March

• Live Round Table
  with Arie Altena, Jouke Kleerebezem and Harrisson