Welcome to ServPub

ServPub is an experimental platform for research and practice on experimental and computational publishing, to reflect collectively on affective infrastructures, minor tech and autonomous networks within, and beyond, institutional constraints.

ServPub aims to Serve and Publish.

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ServPub will be run by artists, coders, activists, collectives, scholars, researchers using FOSS, who share feminist values and practices. We aim to build shared knowledge and resources which operate at small scale and as part of grassroots community networks to explore alternatives. Participating communities/institutions include CSNI at LSBU, Slade School of Fine Art, SHAPE at Aarhus University, In-grid, Systerserver, Creative Crowds and Minor Compositions.


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We began our process with a series of workshops, during which we established and configured the Servpub infrastructure, and demonstrated our working methodologies in practice.

Workshop 1

Creative Computing Institute, UAL, London, UK
26th June, 2023, 12.00-17.00.
Workshop Listing

This workshop was a knowledge sharing session. Systerserver and Varia members shared information about their collective practices and technological knowledge about servers and Virtual Private Networks. We began setting up the first Raspberry Pi that now hosts servpub.net

Workshop 2

Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London, UK
24th Novemeber, 2023, 13:00-17:00
Workshop Listing

This workshop introduced ServPub as a project and as a network of technical and social components. We also took visitors through the technical setup of the Raspberry Pi which now holds Wiki4print. We reflected on the process by wrapping up the day with a collective documentation exercise and group discussion with Q&A.

This workshop was facilitated by In-grid with contributions from Systerserver members.

Wiki4print Setup

This was carried out over multiple remote working sessions facilitated by Creative Crowds.

Content/Form Research Workshop 2024

Transmediale 2024, Berlin Germany
Workshop Details

The participants of the 2024 workshop presented their reflections on ways to collapse traditional workflows of academic publishing, drawing form and content more closely together. Rooted by the interest of researchers in how technological and social forms come together, the presentations, as well as the resulting publication, invite the audience to reflect on the use and value of affective infrastructures, autonomous networks, and shared organisational processes. In support of this, the participants used Wiki4Print, an experimental platform for research and practice on computational publishing, facilitated by In-grid, Systerserver, and Creative Crowds. Creative Crowds designed the Content/Form Newspaper over the course of the workshop, it was released to the public on the Saturday of the conference.

Workshop participants: Bilyana Palankasova, Denise Sumi, Pierre Depaz, Martyna Marciniak, Edoardo Biscossi, Anya Shchetvina, Esther Rizo Casado, Luca Cacini, Sin Yi Choi, Kendal Beynon, Mateus Domingos, Marie Naja Lauritzen Dias, Asker Bryld Staunæs, Maja Bak Herrie, Duncan Paterson, Mariana Marangoni.

In collaboration with Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox, Winnie Soon, Pablo Velasco, Søren Pold, Rachel Falconer, In-grid (George Simms, Rebecca Aston, Katie Tindle, Batool Desouky, Sunni Liao), Systerserver (Mara Karagianni, ooooo) and Varia/CC (Manetta Berends, Simon Browne).

The workshop was organised by SHAPE Digital Citizenship and Digital Aesthetics Research Center (Aarhus University), and the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (London South Bank University), in collaboration with transmediale.

A collective publication, Content/Form, was subsequently launched and is available here.

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Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project 'Servpub - A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish'

A project supported by The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF's call for experimental book projects.

Read more here, and follow our progress as the project evolves.

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