Open! has launched a new series of essays on "commonist aesthetics" (that's not a typo). I'm on Open's editorial board, which involves meetings at Jorinde Seijdel's kitchen table a couple of times per year, and I wrote a brief introduction. At this stage we don't know exactly how long this series will run, and exactly where it will take us, but we have some excellent authors lined up.
The Dutch magazine Open, which had to cease publication due to the cuts, is now online as Open! under http://www.onlineopen.org/ As before, Open! continues deal critically and theoretically with intersections of art, media and activism as a way of charting the transformations of publicness and the production of commons. In addition to new essays (and links to the old issues), the site is publishing a series of short columns that take stock of the situation and/or propose new projects. I contributed one of these columns, "The Conversation."
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