ubiscribe        is a research project     conducted at the Jan van Eyck Academie          Maastricht        the Netherlands Post-Academic Institute for Research and Production in                                   Arts       Design        Theory     ubiscribe wiki: http://www.ubiscribe.net/ubipod/wiki

UbiScribe          pervasive publishing in networked media     read/write     access    navigate     gather/edit        store/serve Focus content text, image and sound — for information, review, opinion, fiction production writing (including translation), authoring, contextualizing, lay-out, interface, (final) editing? conduit Internet/www, mobile media, situated screening and printing, screen/print hybrids? distribution web wide/privileged, P2P, addressee customized, periodicity, subscription base, affiliation, on demand? context individual, institutional, corporate, event? memory retrievable, conservancy, collection, back-issues? economy fee, ad-base, tip jar, zero revenue, subsidized?

UbiScribe          narrative space     architecture     readability    scrollscape     volumes        series Key media saturation pervasive publishing personal editing file sharing multiple front-ends 24/7 Intuition wild talent wild edit format abundance containment content urgency versus information porn niche-to-niche special interest publishing site-specific publication micro publishing content placement disk-to-server-to-disk management

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call for          research proposals / idées fortes / best practices UbiScribe looks into server fed, network spread, serialized publishing, for screen and print. No canned formats are solicited, unless (part of) their content can be updated, e.g. in hybrid cross-media productions. Conducted at the Jan van Eyck Academie the project's aim is to build a research catalogue and body of publications which invite further research and production in the field. Send us your project records, guide us to your sites, drop us a note on publications that you are testing out there, or would like to experiment. The Jan van Eyck Academie is an active publishing partner in old and new media, for artists, designers and theoreticians. The current project allows for individual and collaborative projects to be supported in various ways. With its rich research library and archive documentation center the Academie has a core interest in cultural production and innovation in contemporary arts, design and theory. Please send you credentials to Jouke Kleerebezem, jk@janvaneyck.nl, or by postal mail to: Jan van Eyck Academie UbiScribe Academieplein 1 6211 KM Maastricht the Netherlands