Simon Browne

artistiek onderzoek - design - publicatie

Simon Browne is an artist, researcher and designer whose research interests are based around networked publishing, digital archives, web-to-print and design within the public domain. He is a current maintainer of PrePostPrint, an international network based around design tools and resources using free/libre open-source software (F/LOSS). He holds a Master's degree from the Experimental Publishing programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, and lives and works in Rotterdam, where he is active as a member of the collective Varia.

Toward a Minor Tech, a peer-reviewed newspaper - This publication is the 12th edition of this Peer-reviewed Newspaper, a publication series of research/PhD workshops investigating contemporary digital culture. The newspaper was presented at the transmediale festival 2023, and organised by DARC/SHAPE at Aarhus University, CSNI at London South Bank University, in collaboration with King's College, Queen's University, Varia and transmediale. The publication was designed by Varia members Simon Browne and Manetta Berends, within a wiki-to-print environment hosted on CC (Creative Crowds), a server for publishing experiments.

Publishing Partyline - Preceded by a series of three online radio broadcasts, this two-day session made space for collective learning, with a specific focus on the relations between individuals, groups and tools working on/with web-to-print design practices. The Publishing Partyline was organised by Varia members Simon Browne and Manetta Berends.