Announcing the launch of Photomediations: An Open Book

I’m a little delayed uploading this post but hey we are still…

… pleased to announce the launch of Photomediations: An Open Book.

The project redesigns a coffee-table book as an online experience to

produce a creative resource that explores the dynamic relationship

between photography and other media. Photomediations: An Open Book uses

open (libre) content, drawn from various online repositories (Europeana,

Wikipedia Commons, Flickr Commons) and tagged with the CC-BY licence and

other open licences. In this way, the book showcases the possibility of

the creative reuse of image-based digital resources.

Through a comprehensive introduction and four specially commissioned

chapters on light, movement, hybridity and networks that include over

200 images, Photomediations: An Open Book tells a unique story about the

relationship between photography and other media. The book’s four main

chapters are followed by three ‘open’ chapters, which will be populated

with further content over the next 18 months. The three open chapters

are made up of a social space, an online exhibition and an open reader.

A version of the reader, featuring academic and curatorial texts on

photomediations, will be published in a stand-alone book form later in

2015, in collaboration with Open Humanities Press.

Photomediations: An Open Book’s online form allows for easy sharing of

its content with educators, students, publishers, museums and galleries,

as well as any other interested parties. Promoting the socially

significant issues of ‘open access’, ‘open scholarship’ and ‘open

education’, the project also explores a low-cost hybrid publishing model

as an alternative to the increasingly threatened traditional publishing

structures.

Photomediations: An Open Book is a collaboration between academics from

Goldsmiths, University of London, and Coventry University. It is part of

Europeana Space, a project funded by the European Union’s ICT Policy

Support Programme under GA n° 621037. It is also a sister project to the

curated online site Photomediations Machine:

Project team: Professor Joanna Zylinska, Dr Kamila Kuc, Jonathan Shaw,

Ross Varney, Dr Michael Wamposzyc. Project advisor: Professor Gary Hall.

Visit Photomediations: An Open Book: http://photomediationsopenbook.net

For further enquiries please contact: j.zylinska@gold.ac.uk