Public Knowledge: Online Seminar Series on Expanded Ecologies of Publishing

Wednesdays, 10am ET | October 21 – November 25, 2026
Free | Online via Zoom
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Stevphen Shukaitis (October 21) and Ana Rodríguez Navas (October 28)

How do we turn content into conversations? The fact that it has never been so easy to spread information only makes it harder to build meaningful discourse and affinities around it. It may be time to completely rethink our ecologies of publishing.

With that in mind, Public Knowledge offers a free online seminar series aimed at exploring publishing in the arts, academia, and popular culture. It asks how a wide range of publication platforms—from books to screenings, from exhibitions to gossip—both collaborate and compete to materialize knowledge, form communities, and produce (relatively) stable frameworks of interpretation.

The program is based on weekly presentations by specialists in the area. Guests include Stevphen Shukaitis, editor at Minor Compositions; Ana Rodríguez Navas, author of Ideal Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature; Janneke Adema, principal investigator of Open Book Futures and the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs; Anna Anthropy, game developer and author of The Rise of the Videogame Zinesters; Lukas Brasiskis, curator of Film and Video at e-flux and editor of e-flux Film Notes; and Divina Prado & Vitor Cesar, respectively Editorial and Design coordinators at Tomie Ohtake Institute.

Janneke Adema (November 04) and Anna Anthropy (November 11)

Sessions take place on Zoom every Wednesday, 10am ET, between October 21 and November 25. Participation is free. To register individually for each session, please follow the links below. To keep up to date with the program, subscribe to the Besides the Screen mailing list.

Publishing as Collective Infrastructure, with Stevphen Shukaitis
October 21, 2026 | Register

Private/Public Knowledge: Gossip and its Uses, with Ana Rodríguez Navas
October 28, 2026 | Register

Experimental Publishing & Materialities of Knowledge Production, with Janneke Adema
November 04, 2026 | Register

Shareware Visions, with Anna Anthropy
November 11, 2026 | Register

e-flux Film: Creating a Discourse around Artists’ Moving Images, with Lukas Basiskis
November 18, 2026 | Register

Essay-Notebooks, with Divina Prado & Vitor Cesar
November 25, 2026 | Register

Public Knowledge is hosted by Besides the Screen with the support of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council and Queen’s University Department of Film & Media. The program is curated by Gabriel Menotti with support from Habibi Wang.

Lukas Basiskis (November 18) and Divina Prado & Vitor Cesar (November 25)

About Besides the Screen

Besides the Screen is an international research network and festival focused on media circulation and audiovisual arts. It has organized conferences, exhibitions, and workshops in the UK, Brazil, China, Portugal, China, Mexico and Canada.

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