Projects

Re-writing video feeds for distribution and revenue generation on IPTV (inc YouView)
Over the course of leading the Art of Digital London (AoDL) workshops for ACE London's 275 RFOs, we made a survey of their online video production, identifying 81 organisations producing video. As an experiment we collected their video feeds here http://aodl.mirocommunity.org (the list of organisations is held here http://linkme2.net/np )
AoDL's video workshop summary is here: http://linkme2.net/ob
 
We would like to make a web service through which UK RFOs and cultural organisations could have metadata automatically added to their content, making it compliant with, and accessible through, IPTV platforms/services.
 
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Fri, 12/31/2010 - 13:58
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Progressive Publishing System (PPS)

 

A conversion and distribution system
 
The Progressive Publishing System Web 2.0 service and API gives easy access to the new electronic book publishing platforms (POD, eBooks, iPhone, iPads/tablets, mobiles and Apps) and associated revenues.
It enables publishers to independently publish free and/or paid book content. Target clients span the professional sector of established publishing houses as well as 'non-professional' users, ranging from individuals to companies to informal groups.
PPS will look to format content into an XML-structured document, with an XML rule set for the content to adhere to and then CSS-styled outputs. Secondly, it will provide the XML metadata crucial to a systematic integration into other sales/distribution systems.
PPS is designed to function as providing a 'stepping stone' service facilitating access to other content conversion services (Smashwords...
Fri, 12/31/2010 - 13:15
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No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City

The Picopress commission is to design and layout the book, create a POD print book, distribute this online throught Amazon and the clients own web site. Second is to create an eBook and dirstibute the book as far and wide as possible to online free to share systems; Google books, Scribd, P2P. Lastly Picopress will mount a promotion on partner web sites and social networks.

 

About the book

As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making. Focusing on artists and consultants who have engaged critically with the exclusionary politics of urban regeneration, their analysis locates such practice within a schematic history of urban development’s neoliberal mode. Breaking down into a report and...

Mon, 01/11/2010 - 16:07
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Social by Social

For Social by Social we created a colour POD book, a web site, a PDF download, a Scibd document, Google books doc, Amazon Search Inside file and also handle the sales and fulfillment.

The project was a NESTA commission, see the project web site Socialbysocial.com


About the book

This is a book about the social uses of technology

Not technology for the sake of it, but how to take these trendy new tools and use them for things that really matter

We believe that the power of the internet, mobile phones,...

Fri, 01/08/2010 - 16:43
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Nick Wapplington artists book series

A series of ten hardback artists photography books for a show at the Whitechapel Gallery London. The books were printed as POD books with handmade multi coloured covers and foil lettering, the set of ten different books were then held in custom made cloth covered folio box as a limited edition.

 

About the book

The other part of the show is a collection of 10 books with 100 similar images in each ('You are what you see'), a kind of choose your own adventure experience in which individual experience is questioned from a different angle. An unforgettable...

Fri, 01/08/2010 - 16:41
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