Networks as an instrumental distribution infrastructure.

How a magazine can be an infrastructure.
From officially produced stickers to a hacked version. Putting stickers on books in commercial libraries.

Notepad by S.W.A.M.P 2008
The Pirate Book, 2016 Nicolas Maigret, Maria M...szkowska
http://th epiratecinema.com/book/
the content (repacked source files) 5 GB
including problematic content such as the Led Zeppelin material that a legal case was based on.
Four page legal document with the stapled usb drive (in forensic style ;)
... lawyers summary of why distributing the usb content wouldn't be considered illegal.
Thus the magazine is present in something like 150 academic libraries via the magazine.

Distributed archives/Temporary libraries
Richness of the "neural archive" / library ... a rich collection of books given by many individuals/institutions, avoid asking for funding that might terminate in future and thus kill the library

How to go beyond public library (depending on subsidies) and give back.

Histories have not been well preserved!
We will make a database and publish it online to "give back" (MMars: When every one is librarian, library will be everywhere)
Acknowledge the existence of these books.
Neural archive online; http://archive.neural.it/  (~ 1200 listings )
For him, not a fan of distributing PDFs (of neural itself)
Issues with publishing pdfs without authorization.

How to be a good, active node in a network.
FOr isntance, allowing federated search / search between organisations.
Christina Piga is digital librarian doing most of the work getting the db online: scanning the cover, including table of contents.

Not wanting to interfere in other people's practices (in terms of piracy).

How to preserve printarchives of underground cultures. 

Library and the nerve centre

The physicality of the publications is of importance
Bemoaning the sad state of media art sections of libraries (Auto Cad manual + Lev Manovich, New Media Reader in the Computer Science section )
"librarians have a hard time with media-culture"

Breaking the walls of the library
(circulation without giving up on preservation)

Walking libraries!
The bookmobile (US 1930) practices of moving books to rural areas, borrowable for a week / 
Fahrende Bucherei Freiburg

"liminal librarianship"
Garbage collectors collecting books [see also http://www.leeszaalrotterdamwest.nl/]
Coordination to remove books from the trash and collect them (Ankara, around 6000 books)

intersticial library spaces
Temporay Library co-curated with Annette Gilbert at Transmediale 2017
Ask for donations, asked publishers for 200 books (got 170 of them), publishers agreed because understanding they are part of something bigger
Students taking the books to make pictures of interesting ones

UdK library acquired the collection, condition: if someone else would want to display the collection it would make an effort.
Also done in Latin America, curated around Latin American Media Art at ISEA 2017
co-curated with Andres Burbano? .. afterward to Univ de Caldas in Maniz..
new practices: people suggesting books, transporting books to festival etc
Another one Michelle Teran in Trondheim.

Bibliographies distributed.
http://fbaul-dcnm.pt/temporarylibrary/

Media-art -- why and how it has changed?
Classic motivation: making the missing magazine

Filters? Being a filter in a network, networked filtering
The filter changed to survive. From essential good to luxury. Freshness vs sustainability

"we are in the post-whatever period"
"as soon as you are stuck, you start to die"
"sadly 'promoted content' works quite well"
"if you take it as an adventurous task, you can cope with it"

Libraries are keen to subscribe to digital editions.
Restarted printing locally.
Shipping is difficult (affordable resource recently stopped)

Paywalled pdf - happy that nobody pirated the pdfs. "Flattered by the choice"
(Desire that at "some time" they would be present on platforms like archive.org, but not now while he' (and the org) is still dependent financially on ppl willing to pay for access / physical copies

"paywalls are a contradiction"

Handing over

Integrating Neural archive in Monoskop? Make available for search (without PDFs)
Different politics of sharing materials - integrating data ok?
Bridges between islands ... 
Caring about receiving organisations also caring about the collection (for instance, didn't end up in Trondheim U as they were unsure, instead found a more caring home)
But what about the digital, this makes sense for physical books...
In the case of the archive, making links to the publsher.


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[liminal librarianship - librarians at the edge? Is metadata enough to open those liminal spaces? Non-aligned communities? Permission culture -- how circulation happens across borders of the collections/... And what about dubious legality]
Could monoskop join as partners by sharing standards of exchange?