Publishing as Artistic Practice

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What does it mean to publish today? In the face of a changing media landscape institutional upheavals and discursive shifts in the legal artistic and political fields concepts of ownership authorship work accessibility and publicity are being renegotiated. The field of publishing not only stands at the intersection of these developments but is also introducing new ruptures. How the traditional publishing framework has been cast adrift and which opportunities are surfacing in its stead is discussed here by artists publishers and scholars through the examination of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene where publishing is often part of an encompassing artistic practice. The number and diversity of projects among the artists writers and publishers concerned with these matters show that it is time to move the question of publishing from the margin to the center of aesthetic and academic discourse. Contributors Hannes Bajohr Paul Benzon K. Antranik Cassem Bernhard Cella Annette Gilbert Hanna Kuusela Antoine Lefebvre Matt Longabucco Alessandro Ludovico Lucas W. Melkane Anne Moeglin-Delcroix Aurlie Noury Valentina Parisi Michalis Pichler Anna-Sophie Springer Alexander Starre Nick Thurston Rachel Valinsky Eva Weinmayr Vadim Zakharov