For five years now Open is a cahier that reflects upon contemporary public domain from a cultural perspective. Through a thematic investigation into the changing conditions of public domain and through new ideas relating to this space, Open aims to make a structural contribution to the development of theories about these subjects and to function as a platform for reflection on socio-cultural and artistic practices. Among the international authors writing for Open are philosophers of culture, sociologists, media theorists, architecture and art critics and political scientists.
Open also works together with artists and designers, often in the form of special supplements, and occasionally invites guest editors to produce issues. The cahier is aimed at a diverse public that is interested in critical discourses and discussions about the relationship between cultural production and the public domain, and in the implications for this of processes such as globalization and mediatisation. Open wants to thus create and stimulate autonomous and experimental ideas concerning art and the public domain.

> Published twice a year
> In addition to essays and more project-related texts, Open also includes book reviews and interviews with artists and theorists.
> Theme issues (featured such subjects as security, memory, visibility, sound, tolerance, hybrid space, cultural freedom, informal media, art as a public issue, social engineering and privacy.)

Open is edited by Jorinde Seijdel (editor in chief) and Liesbeth Melis (final editing) and appears twice a year in a Dutch and an English edition. The graphic design is by Thomas Buxo. Open is an initiative of SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain and is published by NAI Publishers. For information and subscriptions and www. opencahier.nl

Open is an initiative of SKOR. SKOR is an Amsterdam-based organization whose objective is to realize special art projects in public and semi-public settings throughout the Netherlands.
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Open is published by NAI Publishers since issue 6.

Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis (editors.) Open 22 Transparency Publicity and Secrecy in the Age of WikiLeaks Design: Thomas Buxó and Klaartje van Eijk, Paperback, Illustrated (colour and b/w), 176 pages, 17 x 24 cm English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-839-0, € 23.50 Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-822-2 In association with SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain This issue of Open investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a special case. The contributors consider the public’s intrinsic bond with the secret, the political potential of transparency and transparency as fetish, and the ideal of free flows of information versus the struggle for information. WikiLeaks is certainly not an isolated phenomenon. The whistleblower website expresses the growing public desire for openness and transparency from the state, businesses and administrators. It is a demand for publicity that stems in part from the growing number of sensational social and political revelations. While people often regard secrecy within the public sphere as impermissible and clandestine, transparency is associated with democracy, participation and accessibility. But is transparency really so liberating? Might it equally well result in concealment or stricter control of information? And is transparency not the ultimate manifestation of the banality of the contemporary society of spectacle, in which everything revolves around pure visibility and the production of affects? Open 22 addresses these questions and much more. Open is a cahier that reflects upon contemporary public space from a cultural perspective. With contributions by Sven Lütticken, Boris Groys, Felix Stalder, Jodi Dean, Jill Magid, Stefan Nowotny, Geert Lovink and others > Order now at NAi Booksellers