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Title: Publishing Partyline
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Category: event
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Tags: publishing, software studies, tools, partylines
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Slug: publishing-partyline
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lang: en
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event_start: 2022-10-14 11:00
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event_duration: 29h
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featured_image:/images/publishing-partyline.png
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summary: Join us for the Publishing Partyline on the 14th and 15th of October, to dive into the dependency relations that are being formed when working with web-to-print techniques, between designers-and-tools and between tools-and-standards.
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In 2014, CSS regions became unsupported by browsers such as Chrome, Chromium and Opera. Until then, this had been a way to deal with multiple text flows in web-to-print publications, mostly for multi-lingual and multi-purpose texts to sit close together in a layout. What followed was not just an adaptation to the new standard, but also attempts to maintain the old one with hacks and workarounds. Shifting standards precipitate adaptations to a new way of working, as well as careful preservation of tried-and-true methods. Along the way, however, the stories around these practices are often lost to time as the tools take centre stage in the narrative.
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Now, we would like to import, export and lay out conversations between graphic designers, tool developers and those who maintain and propose standards. This two-day session will make space for collective learning, with a specific focus on the relations between individuals, groups and tools working on/with **web-to-print design practices**. Tools that are used in this practices include paged media tools such as CSS, Paged.js, Weasyprint and many more.
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Concretely, during the Publishing Partyline we would like to dive into the dependency relations that are being formed when working with web-to-print techniques, between designers-and-tools and between tools-and-standards. Over two days we will listen to each other and record stories around these tools, the moments of stress, excitement, discomfort and adventure. We'll do this by using a range of web-to-print workflows that different collectives have been working with throughout the years, including Ethertoff (OSP), pad2print (Luuse) and Octomode (Varia).
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We will depart on this journey with a **radio series** with practicioners from this field. Tune in to <https://stream.vvvvvvaria.org> on the following days:
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* Wednesday September 7th, 18:00-19:00 (CEST): with [OSP](http://osp.kitchen/)
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* Wednesday September 21th, 18:00-19:00 (CEST): with [Paged.js](https://pagedjs.org/)
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* Wednesday October 5th, 18:00-19:00 (CEST): with [Julien Biderot](https://www.accentgrave.net/) (TBC)
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To register interest in participating in this Partyline, please send an email to [info@varia.zone](mailto:info@varia.zone) with **[publishing partyline]** in the subject by the <del>30st of September, 2022</del> 7th of October, 2022. We are looking for a group of designers who are curious about, or have working experience with web-to-print techniques. To get the best out of the **Publishing Partyline**\*, attendance on both days is important & appreciated. The Publishing Partyline is organised by Manetta Berends and Simon Browne.
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Follow our log to get a glimpse on the preperations: <https://vvvvvvaria.org/logs/publishing-partyline/>
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**Date**: Friday October 14th and Saturday October 15th, 2022<br>
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**Time**: 11:00-18:00 on both days (with an hour lunch break between 13:00-14:00)<br>
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**Location**: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
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\***Partylines** are two day-long semi-structured collective learning situations. The name is inspired by local loop telephone circuits between neighbours, which made it possible to tune into a collective call. These so called "partylines" quickly became a source of entertainment, a place where gossip is shared, but also where emergencies would be communicated. The convivial and communal function of the historical partylines is what inspired us to organise 5 thematic partylines in the 2022 Varia programme.
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<small>This project is supported by the [Creative Industries Fund NL](https://www.stimuleringsfonds.nl/).</small>
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<img src="/images/stimu.en.gif" style="height: 75px; width: auto;">
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