Residency Exhibition 20/6/25 -19/7/25
Browne works within an experimental publishing practice that aims to develop artistic, collective and critical approaches to technology. His practice is based around nurturing convivial conditions for working and learning together and publishing through using whatever means are available, yet with a preference for free/libre open-source software (F/LOSS). My artistic research and experimental publishing projects produce outcomes such as drawings, workshops, work sessions, meetups, graphic diagrams, plastic diagrams, digital tools, archives, libraries, knowledge-sharing systems and print and web publications. He is interested in developing localised, intimate particular publishing systems as strategies for commoning, solidarity and resistance.
Browne is a member of the collective Varia and Open Source Publishing. He uses F/LOSS as a design tool and for collective study. He participates in CC (creative crowds), a server which operates as a “pedagogical space in flux”, offering digital publishing tools while reflecting on inter-dependency relationships between software and creative practice.
Simon Browne
Simon Browne is an artist, designer and researcher based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His practice travels between; DIY (Do It Yourself) and DIWO (Do It With Others), designing and publishing, software and hardware, books and library collections, OSP and Varia, Brussels and Rotterdam. Simon’s work touches upon libraries, graphic design, knowledge distribution, experimental publishing, free/libre open-source software and free culture. His practice combines a variety of media, such as books and printed matter, food, sculpture, websites and software. He holds a Master’s degree in Art and Design from the Experimental Publishing programme at the Piet Zwart Institute. Simon is a member of Varia, the Center for Everyday Technology in Rotterdam and Open Source Publishing in Brussels, and a peer at a server for publishing experiments called creative crowds. Among other venues, his work has been presented at Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Transmediale (Berlin), Varia (Rotterdam), The Photographer’s Gallery (London), The International Festival of Computer Arts (Maribor) and Art Meets Radical Openness (Linz).
