Campagna et. al. (2025) .expub | Exploring Expanded Publishing | Institute of Network Cultures

Edited by Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, Carolina Valente Pinto

.expub | exploring expanded publishing is the final publication of a two-year collaborative project exploring the infrastructures, politics, and networks of contemporary publishing. How can publishing infrastructures become more sustainable, modular, and open? What formats could fully embrace the long-standing promises of multimedia publishing? What does the future of publishing look like beyond platform monopolies and print/digital binaries? Part reader, part toolkit, part living archive, this book gathers essays, interviews, and hybrid publishing tools — from podcasts to print-on-demand, stream-based releases to online collaborative writing. Written and edited collaboratively using Etherport — an open-source tool linking live writing to web-to-print publishing — the book reflects the very practices it investigates: decentralized, modular, transmedial, and open-ended.

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This book is the outcome of the two-year research project .expub | Exploring Expanded Publishing, initiated and supported by the Creative Europe grant. The project brought together four institutions and publishing initiatives from across Europe: Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art (Ljubljana), NERO Editions (Rome), and Echo Chamber (Brussels).

The first section includes contributions by: Sepp Eckenhaussen, Geert Lovink, Ezequiel Soriano, Annette Gilbert, Jordi Viader Guerrero, and Ilan Manouach.

The second section documents a series of conversations held at NERO Editions in Rome, from July 2–4, 2024. Consortium members — Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti, Marcela Okretič, Janez Fakin Janša, Ilan Manouach, Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, and Carolina Valente Pinto — interviewed:

Clusterduck, Silvio Lorusso, Thomas Spies, Irene de Craen, Geoff Cox, Gijs de Heij, Yancey Strickler, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Dušan Barok.

We thank them for their time and generosity in sharing their thoughts and ideas.

Editors: Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, Carolina Valente Pinto

Project Coordination: Tommaso Campagna

Interview Moderators: Carolina Valente Pinto, Marta Ceccarelli

Editorial Assistance and Tagging: Ruben Stoffelen, Salome Berdzenishvili, Anielek Niemyjski

Audio-Visual Recording & Editing: Tommaso Campagna

Proofreading: Ruben Stoffelen, Marta Ceccarelli, Chloë Arkenbaut, Anielek Niemyjski, Sepp Eckenhaussen

Development of publication tool Etherport: Gijs de Heij (Open Source Publishing)

Design, Web Development & Custom Typography: Alix Stria

Printer: GPS Group

Typeface: Junicode by Peter S. Baker

Published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2025.

ISBN: 978-90-835209-5-7

Contact: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)

Email: info@networkcultures.org

Web: www.networkcultures.org

Order a copy or download this publication at: www.networkcultures.org/publication2025.

This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit www.creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-sa/4.0./

This project has been funded with the support from the European Commission through the Creative Europe Program.