print "soapbox"
the project is a fanzine made with free software.
images of fanzine: http://textzi.net/imgs4piksel
it is typeset with groff. perl is used to generate groff mark-up dynamically. this `programmatic' design aspect is documented here:
http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~ilopez/blog/?p=31
it uses not-courier sans, a font designed by open source publishing.
i use the fanzine to self-publish the following text:
http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~ilopez/attachment/essay.pdf
this text deals with the intersections of code and self-publishing. does it make sense to self-publish code? how are print cultures remediated by code? part of section 10 of the text is a recursive look at the assemblage of this fanzine itself as pseudocode.
also, i draw the parallel between fanzines and code as practices that are tied to consumer technologies. if fanzine culture of the 1990s was a by-product of consumer computing, are script kiddies emancipated consumers? is script kiddism a form of empowerment?
Artist name:
ivan monroy lopez
URL: http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~ilopez/blog
high-res image:
