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A great inspiration for those working with personal photography and online photo-sharing is this project by the UC Barkley School of Information : you can review the project’s aims here

downlod some of their studies and position papers from here, namely

Nancy Van House et al- From “What?” to “Why?”:The Social Uses of Personal Photo, University of California at Berkeley
School of Information; or Nancy Van House-New Photographic Technology and the Social Uses of Images School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley

Reading [follow the links for online material or the printed reader]
WEEK 02: Tuesday 10 October 2006
Artists’ books and conceptual art: 1960s- onwords
Gwendolyn J. Miller. Discovering Artists Books- The art, the artist and the issues

Barbara Bader. Books as Collections: Dieter Roth’s Artists’ Books as Case in Point.

Janis Ekdahl .Artists’ Books and Beyond: The Library of The Museum Of Modern Art As A Curatorial And Research Resource

WEEK 03: Tuesday 17 october 2006
Photo magazines, collection books and visual culture 1960s- onwards
Martin Lister et al. New media and Visual Culture, chapt 2 In New Media: A Critical Introduction (97-107)

third space

out of Print Ohio- a Magazine art Project. David Brittain + Bob Jardine

Manisha Jothady, «Peter Piller, A Tennis Ball Discovered While Cutting the Hedge is Like a Bird of Prey’s Pellet in: Camera Austria, 89/2005

In Almost Every Picture. Edited by Erik Kessels.

Jonathan Bell: What goes around, comes around – Martin Parr Boring Postcards, Boring Postcards USA, Langweilige Postkarten

Val Williams . Loving Your Pictures by Erik Kessels Eye Magazine, vol.14, spring 2005

WEEK 04: Tuesday 24 october 2006
Photo-participatory communities as gaming/ performative cultural practice

Instant Images: The Recording, Distribution and Consumption of Reality Predestined by Digital Photography [1]
Kathrin Peters
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/photo_byte/instant_images/print/
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/photo_byte/instant_images/

WEEK 05: Tuesday 31 october 2006
Self-Publishing, intro to POD/ Networked Distribution Services
Wikipedia: Print On Demand

A Story of Alternate Publishing Universes

A Lightning Source Book Example- a print-on-demand case study with costs and profits

discuss, based on both texts, where the print-on-demand and traditional publishing models diverge.
Color Print on Demand (POD) Economics
Be prepared to discuss the economics of b&w vs color pod printing

WEEK 06: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Licensing/ distribution schemes: product codes and projects with photo tags and identifiers

creative commons (browse all sections on licensing schemes)

Lawrence Lessig. Free Culture. (chapts 2: mere copyists and 9: collectors) download pdf

creative commons and digital photography

Adam Curr vs Weekend tabloid (Flickr//Creative Commons license)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/22/creative_commons_dutch_court_ruling/
http://curry.podshow.com/?p=49

WEEK 08: Tuesday 21 November 2006
Intermediality: text/image coupling and GUIs
Susanne Holschbach- Continuities and differences between photographic and post-photographic
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/photo_byte/photographic_post-photographic/ [w/ photo examples]
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/photo_byte/photographic_post-photographic/print/

WEEK 09: Tuesday 28 November 2006
digital anarchive, database and transmission
Jens Schröter. Archive—Post/photographic.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/photo_byte/archive_post_photographic/1/

WEEK 10: Tuesday 5 December 2006
self-publishing movement
several self-publishing projects to browse through

wikipedia: self-publishing
Publish and Be Damned london self-publishing fair.

Roma Publications- an independent publishing project, founded by artist Mark Manders and graphic designer Roger Willems.
Revolver: Publisher of artists books
ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media.
MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE The projet project explores the long held tradition of bookmobiles as traveling libraries that promote the distribution of information.
BookMooch-project by John Buckman for exchanging used books: it lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.
Sal Randolph FREE WORDS is a book which belongs to whoever finds it.
Distributed Library project. Use this system to lend, borrow, catalogue and review books, leaflets, music and videos you own that have little or no other distribution and metadata infrastructure.

WEEKS 11/12 No reading assigned

8.2 Optional Materials

Your own research on photo-publications, posted to yur blog and and tagged in your del.icio.us account