Kim Kleinert programs books, websites and tools.

Currently
GitPub

GitPub is a collaborative web to print tool based on the git version control software. gitpub.directory  2026

thinking about
Projects
workshops
GitPub at AMRO

I participated in this years iteration of Art Meets Radical Openness with a workshop introducing GitPub. You can find the repository and zine we made here  2026

sites and paths

In March Francois invited me to teach in his coding class at KABK Den Haag (NL). Together with Graphic Design first year students we made websites as routes: interlinking multiple pages, meanwhile learning about file paths. workshop page  2026

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Coding Workshop together with Karen Czock at HBK Braunschweig 2024

Shoulder Surfing

Workshop together with Karen Czock for the Hackers & Designers Summer Camp 2024

  • An open laptop is surrounded by four computer mice.
  • Eight different computer mice lined up on a table.
  • On an old laptops graphical interface, multiple mouse cursors draw a green lawn all together

Writing on the margins of the web

Workshop together with Polina Lobanova at the Stand-in School for Graphic Design 2024

publications
Graduation Publication

Experimental Publishing's 2026 Graduation Publication "Turning it Off and On Again: a Collective Glossary" was made using GitPub together with Tessa, Feline and Kiara, containing contributions from the entire class. 2026

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annual rings

gitlab.com/km_kt/annual-rings 2025

layer

gitlab.com/km_kt/layer 2025

See you many times

issue.xpub.nl/27 2025 (archived)

  • two small light blue books lie on a black table. Their covers show traces of lists and a clock.
Terms of Servers

A hybrid publication that can be read in the computer terminal and as printed booklet.
You can find a static snapshot of it here (archived). Developed together with Claudio (C3) and exhibited at the Telecom Museum Rotterdam. 2025

  • scan of a green booklet with askii cover
  • scan of a green booklet showing text and script
  • a small screen showing white text on black background attatched to a wall. Many cables connect it to a small server, layed bare, its green circuitboard and actively spinning fan become visible.

Klasse Digitale Grafik Archive

kim-kleinert.digitale-grafik.com/index 2021 - 2024

Network Matters

network-matters.xyz 2024

Tracing Networks Backwards

/tnb (archived)  2024

Notes on Publishing Ecologies

ecologies.online  2023

  • A white book cover with loosely scattered black numbers.
  • An open book presents shifting text blocks on white ground.
  • A white back cover with loosely scattered black numbers.

presentations
Layers

I presented some of my work and research under the notion of layers, layering and looking underneath at KABK Den Haag (NL). slides  2026

  • A woman with short hair points at a large screen behind her, showing a simple sketch of layered documents.
  • A Poster on a glass door announces a 'Lunch Lecture'. It has a warm gray background and pixelated shapes in muted colors.

print2web2print

I presented some of my projects and current research in the theme of web to print tools at Fragen Festival organized by HAW Hamburg slides  2026

  • image of a computer screen with an askii venn diagram on it. the center of the diagram reads "web 2 print". The three intersecting areas contain: Standards, new design practices and open source.
Interfacing Time

A presentation and worksession at the Homemade Computer Club2024

On Contamination

A performative reading on contamination as a method in digital publishing at Naive Yearly in Ljubiljana. 2024

Intertextual Intimacies

Presentation for the Are.na Annual launch with waf.gmbh and Klasse Digitale Grafik 2023

writing
Sharing Context

"Sharing Context: Metadata, Markup Language and Articulation Work" (MA Thesis) thesis.gitpub.directory  2026

In this text I examine how technology coordinates collaborative work in the production of text, drawing from historical examples and present day tendencies. With todays increasingly diffuse, opaque platforms and the prevalence of metadata that shifts readability towards machines, collaboration becomes subject to automation. This does not resolve work but displaces where and how articulation work occurs.

On Contamination

An essay in footnotes read on Are.na 2025

Websites for
Gal Sherizly

foodfrommemory.world  2025

Lina von Jaruntowski

linavonjaruntowski.com  2025

Meret Kern

meretkern.de  2025

Sebastian Donath

sebastian-donath.com 2024 update 2025

Soph Boobyer

sophboobyer.xyz  2024

Vanessa Bosch

hydrofem-manifesto.xyz  2023

Never Ready

Website and Graphic Design for Never Ready: A congress on the visuality of the internet never-ready.hfbk.net 2022

  • A poster with black letters on white ground. The text becomes a shape itself
  • Two speakers sit on a colorful stage in front of a screen which shows a graphical animation.
  • A blue lit room filled with people in motion, captured from the back.

Friends Webs

Sevgi Uma Polina Karen Chae Kiara Doriane Karla Kamo Tessa Marie

About
me

I am currently based in Rotterdam (NL) where I work between graphic design, programming and artistic research. My main interests are subversive forms of publishing and their on- and offline infrastructures which I explore through different formats such as books, tools, websites or preparing workshops.

I am open for commissioned or collaborative projects ~ feel free to reach out mail@kimkleinert.com

this page

This page is set up using Pelican, which enables me to write all contents in markdown and generate them into a static website. For its appearance I wrote a few nested template snipptes in Jinja that are focused on default system fonts and native html elements.
Besides a small script that fetches the latest Are.na Block from this Channel the site does not use Javascript or any Frameworks, with the intention to keep dependencies low, it's size small and let it degrade gracefully across operating systems and devices.

contact

Gitlab
@k2mt
@prettyboykim
E-mail

This page was last updated 16.07.2026