PPPirates meeting at Césure on 4 & 5 April organised by PrePostPrint

The event is FULL, it's not possible to bring other guests. Please respect this as we have gauges to respect inside the rooms.

Practicalities

• Venue : Césure 13 Rue Santeuil, 75005 Paris
• Dates : Friday April 4 and Saturday April 5, 2025
• Times : From 9:30 a.m. on both days, we’ll welcome you with coffee.
  • Metro 7 Censier-Daubenton
  • Metro 5 Campo-Formio
• Room : 3rd floor, Las Vergnas

The room we have reserved is Las Vergnas, on the 3rd floor. You enter through the gate at 13 rue Santeuil, which is the main entrance to Césure. You then have to cross the courtyard to get to the welcome hall (blue) in the building opposite. The Las Vergnas room is on the third floor. When you get to the third floor, it’s on the left, at the end of the corridor. We’ll put up posters so you can find your way around.

The round table will take place in amphitheatre A, on the first floor, on the left as you enter the welcome hall.

On Friday evenings, the café/bar Le Censier (101 Rue Monge, 5e Paris) is booked for around 40 people. There’s plenty to eat and drink!

Contact

mail : pppirates@kittens.army

Wifi

• login: PlateauUrbain
• pass: Bonjour*2425

Program

Friday, April 4

• 9h45-10h: Welcome and breakfast
• 10am-12pm: introductory session for newcomers
• 12pm: Self-catered lunch
• 2-6pm: Discussion and PPPirateries workshop
• 7pm-9pm: Round table “Tools for the free circulation of knowledge” (open to all, amphitheater A)
• 9pm: Café/bar le Censier (101 Rue Monge, 5e Paris) reserved for around 40 people. Food and drink available!

Saturday, April 5

• 9h45-10h: Welcome and breakfast
• From 10am and all day: PPPirateries discussions and workshops, interspersed with 10-minute presentations (at 2pm and 4.30pm)
• Data-fair organized by Outdoors Computer Club https://outdoorcomputer.club1.fr

Meals

Meals are provided for Saturday lunchtime only. Please bring some change to participate. Bring your own mugs! All reported allergies have been taken into account, and it will be vegan :)

Additional information

• What to bring: your favorite mug, extension cords and power strips, USB sticks, your computer.
• For the Data-fair, bring data you’d like to share! Images, sound files, videos, text documents, tools, etc.
• A health protocol is in place: if you are ill, please wear a mask.
• Photos of the event will be taken. We’ll be setting up a tagging system to keep track of all our guests.

prentations && propositions

Detailed programm

Friday 4th of April

10am : Introduction

Room Las Vergnas

On friday morning, 10am, we start by introducing to new comers the questions and practices PrePostPrint wishes to investigate.

We’ll tell stories of layout technics and tools, in an attempt to throw light on the practices behing PrePostPrint.

Four voices and four practices will be bound together in the printing of an object, marking an end to the moment.

pppirates-discussion-workshop">2pm: PPPPirates discussion & workshop

It’s up to you to come up with your own ideas and desires! You could write in advance some proposals of things you would like to investigate by editing the yellow background at the top.

Ideas of what you could do :

• present a tool
• make a collaborative edition, a zine, an exquisite corpse
• sort through your computer
• write something
• share files on USB sticks and resources
• Take a moment to work together on something.
• comment on your scripts and other little tricks with a view to sharing them
• add things to the PPP “Resources” page
• contribute to other people’s projects during this friendly time

7 to 9pm : Tools for the free circulation of knowledge

Amphitéatre A

The PrePostPrint collective invites you to attend a conversation between artists, researchers and activists on the circulation of knowledge and alternative, free and open source publishing models.

The terms ‘pirate’ and ‘piracy’ were revived by Internet sharing practices at the turn of the 2000s: from a pecuniary pursuit consisting of amassing and then reselling, the figure of the pirate now corresponds much more to a desire to liberate wealth held back by the dynamics of exploitation. In this cybernetic field, the ‘pirate’ approach consists of building open communities, in opposition to a commercial and controlling system. The same is true of design-related practices that hijack tools and software, imagining new ways of distributing and disseminating content, books, images and creative resources. Outside the law, perhaps, but certainly within the city, pirates are developing methods and techniques that are resolutely democratic, documented, emancipatory and, in a way, revolutionary. In a capitalist context that tends to turn all creation into a marketable product, who are those who reject proprietary software by using open-source tools to make books, who oppose the mechanisms that lock down culture and who hijack the means of distribution? Who are the pirates who are designing a more sustainable world?

The PrePostPrint collective - which brings together designers, researchers, developers and anyone interested in sharing experimental publishing techniques using free software - is proposing to reflect on and explore this theme at a round table with the artists’ collective RYBN, the artist Benjamin Cadon and the hacktivist Spideralex, among others. Each of them will present their practices and research, and share their views on the need for and ways of using dissident, disobedient, free, open and collaborative modes of dissemination. Marie Lechner, journalist and curator, and author of the preface to The Pirate Book (Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, Askioma, 2015) will then lead a conversation.

Saturday 5th of April

10am - 6pm: PPPirates discussion & workshop

Room Las Vergnas

Like Saturday, this is a self-organised day, so it’s up to you to come along with your ideas and desires!

Data-fair organised by Outdoor Computer Club, stand open all day

At the entrance to the room Las Vergnas

The Outdoor Computer Club is a collective that explores ways of demystifying and collectively reappropriating network and information technologies.

The data-fair is a particular form of what is known as a snearkernet (or floppy net or pigeon net). The sneakernet is a file transfer network based on the movement of storage media in physical space (unlike the Internet, which transmits data over cables and airwaves). The sneakernet appears in contexts where the Internet is lacking, where the data transferred is sensitive, or under very restrictive censorship regimes.

The data-fair is the point of contact for a network of digital file exchanges outside the Internet. The data in the data-foire network travels with the participants, on USB sticks in their pockets, and is exchanged at data-foire stands. The data-foire stand is a space equipped with one (or more) computers with a hard disk and possibly printers, scanners, speakers or headphones. Connected to the computer, the hard drive hosts files submitted by participants, which can be consulted and downloaded by others. You can also bring paper documents to be scanned and shared on the data-foire network. And conversely, you can print out a file found on your hard drive (image, text document) and leave with a paper version. Ideally, data-fairs promote the exchange of files that do not or hardly exist on the Internet, personal creations, finds, rips (digital extraction of a file contained on a physical storage medium: DVD, cassette, vinyl, etc.), but this is not an obligation. As well as being a hub for the file exchange network, the data-fair is a physical space for meetings, parties and reading. The data-fair stand can be equipped with speakers, drinks, a bookcase, chairs, a video projector, and so on. A data fair can take place in the public space, within a pre-existing event or in more or less exclusive spaces, depending on the communities it wants to reach. A market, a festival, a park, a pedestrianised street, a library, a squat, a fanzine festival, a demonstration… https://outdoorcomputer.club1.fr