Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

The traditional publishing model faces inability to include all new emerging knowledge in its existing formats, especially knowledge from experimental, artistic or niche practices. A book cannot carry a sound, a theater performance is not the same if seen online, a participatory practices cannot be published. The traditional publishing model has been facing serious troubles, deriving from supply chain crisis, insufficient and poor usage of tech options available, and disinterested audiences (especially true for niche and smaller publishers).

On the other hand, the emerging Expanded Publishing (EP) that has potential to tackle these issues, never got through experimental phase and remains fragmented without a common model. The EX-Pub project is about researching and producing new EP formats and their combinations, develop a Toolkit for EP, and prototype these actions into a novel operating model for Expanded Publishing. These 3 key deliverables provide new capacities, new professional opportunities for creative sector, and sustainable potential for future spin-offs, upgrades, replications, scale-ups, etc.

Target groups include: publishers, editors, producers, artists, art directors, curators, grass-root collectives, technicians, art researchers, and wider audiences: students, theorists, music, comics and art enthusiasts, performers, clubbers, etc. They will all be actively involved in the EP formats and Toolkit development. EX-Pub will be realized through 10+ complementary approaches and methods. Activities include research-production-dissemination axis, prototyping and development, commissioned artworks, and snowball-like progressing of EP formats processing the main theme: internet aesthetics. Main results are: 20 new EP formats, 8 combinations of those formats, 1 digital EP Toolkit, 1 operational model for EP, 9 capacity-building activities, 8 direct (conference, live events) and indirect (booklets, zines etc.) activities of audience engagement and cooperation. [vir: FTOP.]

Aksioma Institute

(Partner)

All projects of Slovenian producer

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age

Foreign producers in the supported project

Stiching Hogeschool van Amsterdam (leader)

Netherlands (EU)
Produzioni Nero s.c.r.l. (partner)

Italy (EU)
Echo Chamber ASBL (partner)

Belgium (EU)

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age