‘Postdigital’, ‘Publishing’ and ‘Platform’ are key concepts at the heart of all our projects. Postdigital, as no longer considering digital technologies emerging or new but already deeply imbedded in our lives and in being human. Publishing as in making public, sharing, disseminating original thinking and practice based research, in 3 formats; open access online, print form and public events. Plat
form as a shared and collaborative network and virtual space for multidisciplinary modes of inquiry and production of new knowledge. For the past 10 years, bookRoom has surveyed and published the impact of digital technologies on emerging publishing practices, bringing in contact the various perspective of artists, publishers, thinkers, collectors while always acknowledging an affinity with the artists book, the kind of books that enabled artists, writers and thinkers to operate at the critical edge and on the margins of art institutions, conventional publishing and their respective gate keepers. In 2016 bookRoom started to formulate new research questions around post digital interaction and collaborative modes of research and publishing. bookRoom welcomes application for practice-based research degrees or PhD by publication on the following themes:
Photography and the book – Contemporary dialogue between electronic and print culture – Political and social history of independent publishing and artist books – The interplay between the book and other time based medium; photography, writing, moving images, music, performance art – Postdigital interaction.
