Read text version of presentation here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6GECLe4i1KCNlSDaX8pq7Jmor2pocj1zm4COAQRQbs/edit?usp=sharing Oliver Wise and Eleanor Hanson Wise of The Present Group and The People’s E-book will present an overview of their current and past projects in order to showcase the different community-based funding models they use to support their practice. They will present an artistic production and publishing practice rooted in both the physical and digital worlds, and how their experiences shaped the building of The People’s E-book. The People’s E-Book is a free e-book creation platform for artists, authors, and alternative presses who want to experiment, publish new types of books, and push into new territory. After raising almost three times its Kickstarter goal in 2013, The People’s E-book is now in beta and its community is outputting reflowable .ePubs for free everyday.

1. Publishing Constitutes a Public
Eleanor Hanson Wise & Oliver Wise
The Present Group @thepresentgroup
The People’s E-book @peoples_e

2. “A public is a space of discourse organized by
nothing other than discourse itself. It is
autotelic; it exists only as the end for which
books are published, shows broadcast,
websites posted, speeches delivered, opinions
produced. It exists by being addressed.”
–Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics

3. Publishing creates a public.
A public enables publishing.

4. -Amanda Palmer
“When you ask people, you connect with them.
And when you connect with people, they want
to help you….
Celebrity is about a lot of people loving you
from a distance.” [the internet has changed
that distance] “It’s about a few people loving
you up close, and those people being enough.”

5. The Present Group Art
Subscription Service,
2006-2011
• limited editions commissioned and
published 3 or 4x per year
• edition size related to subscriber base
• catalogue essay and interview for each

10. gif-iti.tumblr.com
handpainted animated street art
'Hollywood Dooom'
by INSA x Stanley Donwood

11. 5 improvisations within the mundane to
affirm the present moment, Aaron GM,
2011, Issue 18 of TPG Art Subscription
Sometimes a book isn’t a book.
• 360 degree navigation /
interaction

12. Art Micro Patronage

16. Online E-Book Creator: Free, visual, quick

18. The People’s E-book: The Photocopier of the internet.

19. an ex t
by David Horvitz and Lauren van
Haaften-Schick, forthcoming
A book doesn’t have to be static
There is a moment of course when the
disappearer might re-consider their
position. !
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After all, there are bills to pay and future
generations that may want to know. !
They might think, I might not really want to
do this right now, or, those people aren’t
really so bad, or, the show was supposed
to go on. !
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After all, there are bills to pay and future
generations that may want to know. !
They might think, I might not really want to
do this right now, or, those people aren’t
really so bad, or, the show was supposed
to go on.!
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They might think, I might not really want to
do this right now, or, those people aren’t
really so bad, or, the show was supposed
to go on.

20. Artists help push
technology forward
Sonia Landy Sheridan, Artist in Residence, 3M’s
Color Research Lab, 1971 & 1976
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Xerox PAIR at Xerox PARC, Artist in Residence
Program, started 1993, no longer active

21. streambooks.thepeoplesebook.net

22. Thank You!
Eleanor Hanson Wise @thepresentgroup
Oliver Wise @owise1