using global media workshop

using global media

this workshop provides tools for using social, material, and digital media globally

Workshop leader Matthew Stadler has begun to focus the workshop's concerns around the question of publication: how do our social, material, and digital practices beckon a public into being? This question is explored through active projects in publication, principally via a new entity called the Publication Studio. On December 20, 2009, Publication Studio will convene three free information sessions expanding on the workshop's inquiries at a holiday Publication Fair at the Ace Hotel, 1022 SW Stark Street, Portland, Ore.. For details, contact Publication Studio or look at their website.

* * * * *

The workshop meets when and wherever 8 or 10 people (or thereabouts) decide they’d like to sponsor and participate in a session. A session typically comprises 20 – 30 hours of meetings over a week to ten weeks, depending on schedules and arrangements with the workshop leader, Matthew Stadler. Afterwards, workshop members continue their association via the workshop’s shared resource data base and publication in the workshop reader. Thus, the community of the workshop grows session by session to include members wherever there is sufficient interest. So far sessions have been held or are scheduled for Portland, Oregon (USA), Berlin (Germany), Mexico, and Vancouver, B.C. (Canada).

If you have a group interested in the workshop, please e-mail usingglobalmedia@gmail.com to make a proposal. If you have fewer than enough people, send a note anyway, and we’ll try to assemble a session that includes you.

Matthew Stadler is a novelist and editor, co-founder of Clear Cut Press, former literary editor of Nest Magazine, and founder/collaborator with the back room and Publication Studio.

Social Media

how to create community conversations
setting the table — public discourse and public dining
finding the right room
making the mix — connecting to people you don't know
taking your show on the road

Material Media

how to make a mass market book for $400
publish and distribute well-made books on-demand (with hardly any money)
getting your story to editors (without an agent)
making potent objects — the allure of beauty and scarcity
newsprint circulars and wheatpaste posters
mail art
finding (or founding) global independent distribution networks
making news — how to use global corporate news systems
the art of the spectacle
making things together with others

Digital Media

the web: what is it good for?
web masquerades (making companies, institutions, and others on the web)
creating and maintaining interactive digital communities
Social media: Tweets, Facebook, Wave
finding and linking to fellow travelers
minimal interventions — how to make sites that others activate

For more information write to usingglobalmedia@gmail.com

for writers, artists, and activists who want to reach (or help create) communities near and far