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Frances Dyson - Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture
University of California Press, 2009, English, ISBN-13: 978-0520258990, U.S.A.The most obvious link between sound and new media is that both are immaterial. Obviously there's more, especially through combination. Frances Dyson goes well beyond this point, adopting an interesting and original strategy: she argues that new media represents an "accumulation of the auditive technologies of the past." Specifically, she methodically examines ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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N.O. Cantsin - A Neoist Research Project
ISBN 978-1-906496-46-3, OpenMute, 2010, EnglishForget about certainties. Forget about authors. Forget about fancy graphic design. Forget about colors. Forget about greyscale. Forget even about page numbers. This is a Neoist book and its content was meant to radically break the rules in the eighties. And it still does. It's a comprehensive anthology of Neoism through an abundance of writings and strictly black and white ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Beryl Graham, Sarah Cook - Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013888, English, U.S.A., 2010After fifteen years of recurrent and animated debates about the peculiarities of new media art, it is still almost always considered as inappropriate in terms of classic museum and collector standards. There is also the undisguised frustration of being snubbed by the majority of the contemporary art world. Here is the best chance to start to definitively solve this ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Barri J. Gold - ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013727, 2010, English, U.S.A.There's an ethereal legacy between the nineteenth century (most of it was the so called Victorian era), science and technological innovation and the current digital age, almost two centuries after. Beyond recognizing the ancestors of technologies (the telegraph as the "Victorian Internet") and the subcultures producing fascinating atypical machines and settings (the steampunk ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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André Nusselder - Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
The MIT Press, English, ISBN-13: 978-0262513005, U.S.A., 2009Psychologists have been rarely very helpful in understanding the most deep and intimate relationships between men and machines. At the end of nineties one of the early scientific books investigating this field out: "The Psychology of the Internet" by Patricia Wallace. It tried to analyze emotional emergences rising on the net, which were mainly caused by the new mediated type of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Ingeborg Reichle - Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art
Springer Verlag, Austria, English, ISBN-13: 978-3211781609The laboratory as an atelier: this seems to be one of the paradigms of art and science. "Art" and "science" are two terms that have been juxtaposed way too often, sometimes describing either "creative" science or art only citing scientific elements. This book is far away from these misunderstandings. The work restricts its field of research to three areas (genetic engineering, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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(edited by) Alka Pande, Nils Röller - Visual Arts, The India Habitat Centre's Art Journal
India Habitat Centre, volume 9, April 2008 - March 2009, India, English, 2009How much we really know about artists using communication technologies in countries not deeply involved in the art market? Not much, of course, and just thinking about that gives the impression that we're missing out on a lot of culture. India is certainly one of these territories. Since the Dutch-Indian establishment of Sarai in New Delhi, there was an entry point in a country ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann, T. Tissot - Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899552782, English, Germany, 2010According to Olia Lialina: "Two ideas have occupied the minds of new media designers for several decades: humanization of computers and the materialization of digital phenomena." While the former is far from truly being realized, the latter is a huge trend, especially when it comes to data visualization. Quantities and relationships ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Toy instruments - Design Nostalgia Music, from the collection of Eric Schneider, introduction by DJ Spooky
Mark Batty Publisher, ISBN 978-0982075487, USA, 2010, EnglishSquare and compact, this book is reminiscent of an old tin box, like those used to contain ginger biscuits or other mysterious delicacies. From his personal collection, Eric Schneider has created this delightful collection of toy musical instruments from around the world. The earliest pieces ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter - Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-0816666119, USA, 2009, EnglishActivism (or better hacktivism) usually conjugates with video games when a new political or highly controversial art-game (or artistic intervention in a game platform) is announced. Otherwise the most profitable entertainment industry is not very affected by political criticism, and neither are the hordes of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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various editors - monochrom #26-34 Ye Olde Self-Referentiality
edition mono/monochrom, ISBN 978-3950237269, Austria, 2010, EnglishPrinting a 500-page book using the look and feel of a nineties xeroxed fanzine, with an impressive number of essays is a clear statement in 2010. This is not meant to be an outrageously expensive art book for collectors, nor a sleek coffee table book to be flipped through in an alternative club. It is ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Caleb Kelly - Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262013147
, USA, 2009, EnglishSince John Cage we have started to prefigure what is now called the "aesthetics of failure." Reconsidering accidents as opportunities has been the conceptual terrain of different avant garde artists ever since. All the major musicians that have founded their own career researching the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Mattin & Anthony Iles - Noise & Capitalism
Arteleku Audiolab, ISBN 978-8479086221, Spain, 2009, EnglishThis book is an exception to the rule that a product can be judged from its price. It is free (either downloading it or trading a printed copy) and it sports professional editing, graphic design and production. But it seems just a direct consequence of the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Elizabeth Losh - Virtualpolitik
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262123044, USA, 2009, EnglishIn middle nineties EFF founder John Perry Barlow wrote "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" formalizing the new autonomy from the real world bureaucracy and its walls as felt then by the Internet elite. Among the different statements it still can be read as a mounting impatience with digitally illiterate bureaucrats and their failing rhetoric, generated by a growing fear of an open and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Franco "Bifo" Berardi - The Soul at Work
Semiotext(e), ISBN 978-1584350767, USA, 2009, EnglishThe life of the Italian philosopher Franco Bifo Berardi has been often connected to contemporaneity. After his seminal gestures and exploits in the seventies, his fundamental writings in the nineties about communication technologies and social movements, and his pivotal contribution to the birth of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Bill Wasik - And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Viking Adult, ISBN 978-0670020843
, USA, 2009, EnglishBill Wasik makes internet experiments on viral culture. He organized the first (pointless) flash mob in New York, and went on with other effective strategies, exploiting online trust and community building techniques. It's the good old meme resurgence in the times of social networking, tested through a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Konrad Becker and Felix Stalder - Deep Search: The Politics of Search Beyond Google
Studienverlag & Transaction Publishers, ISBN 978-3706547956, Austria, 2009, EnglishThe centrality of search engines in everyday lives has recently been focused on by different institutions involved in the critical analysis of Internet culture. Among them are the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, and the World-Information Institute in Vienna that organized the Deep Search conference, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Wolfgang Sützl & Geoff Cox - Creating Insecurity: art and culture in the age of security, DATA browser 04
Autonomedia, ISBN 978-1570272059, UK, 2009, EnglishThe 4th anthology of texts realized by the DATA Browser series editorial group, is focused on "security", an ambiguous yet extremely popular concept, exploited by governments in order to claim its necessity, programmability and the consequent need to build a security infrastructure. The artificiality of this approach and the dangerous consequences of the current unilateral concern for security inspired the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mary Flanagan - Critical Play, Radical Game Design
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262062688, USA, 2009, EnglishAfter a few years of serious and prolific videogame studies, fed by the industry boom, the research is starting to focus on reconnecting with the history of games through strong links that would help to understand and expand videogame paradigms. In this articulate book Flanagan starts with a major ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Iman Moradi. Ant Scott, Joe Gilmore, Christopher Murphy - Glitch: Designing Imperfection
Mark Batty Publisher, ISBN 978-0979966668, USA, 2009, EnglishError, and even more importantly, its perception and visual beauty are at the heart of the "glitch art" movement. Be it ethereal, as with a few seconds of uncertainty in the graphic rendering, or fixed, as a more or less stable bug in a file, the glitch is a recurrent, yet peripheral visual component. This is the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Dragan Espenschied, Olia Lialina - Digital Folklore: To Computer Users, with Love and Respect
Merz Akademie, ISBN-13: 978-3937982250, Germany, 2009, EnglishOlga Lialina and Dragan Espenschied have invested a huge amount of time in investigating something that others have simplistically dismissed as "mundane". They have been among the very few to understand the importance of a historic moment (the first years of the world wide web) and the birth of its "pop culture" - a history they appropriately define as "digital folklore". Beyond the recurrent naivete ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Cornelia Lund, Holger Lund - Audio.Visual: On Visual and Related Media
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3897902930, Germany, 2009, EnglishCornelia and Holger Lund established and run the Fluctuating Images gallery in Stuttgart since 2004, and in 2009 they relocated to Berlin. Their activity was centered on connecting the local audiovisual artist community (with a special care for the VJ scene) with the international one through works and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013475, U.S.A., 2010, EnglishSound waves can't usually damage your ears unless you constantly keep headphone volume too high,or you insist on standing very close to tall speakers during a concert for too long. Used in the right way (or wrong way), however, they can be a scary armament, able to inflict various degrees of harassment, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Cornelia Sollfrank - Expanded Original
Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775723909, Germany, 2009, English, GermanThe work of Cornelia Sollfrank is one of the most enlightening attempts to describe the consequences of immateriality in art. She consistently points to the obsolescence of concepts such as "original" and "copyrighted", developing a full spectrum of perspectives. Even if the core of her work comes out of the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sherry Turkle - Simulation and Its Discontents
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262012706, USA, 2009, EnglishStarting with two ethnographic studies she undertook twenty years apart, Sherry Turkle is able to make a timely investigation in this book, addressing the role played by simulation in higher education, physics, chemistry and architecture research. The pivotal perception shift that is pervading the younger "world creators" seems highly risky, especially when seen from the previous generation's perspective, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Arjen Mulder, Joke Brouwer - Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph
NAi Publishers, ISBN 978-9056626006, The Netherlands, 2009, EnglishThe slow and almost unavoidable disintegration of pieces of early electronic art is part of a broader problem that involves the preservation of both their materials and their historical documentation. This task can be accomplished only by trying to systematize the rescued documents, in order to ease the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schopf, Gerfried Stocker - Ars Electronica 1979-2009 the First 30 Years: The Network for Art Technology and Society
Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775725231, Germany, 2009, English, GermanCondensing thirty years of the Ars Electronica festival history into six hundred pages is the challenge of this book. It's a tough task to make a selection and to deal with the inevitable incompleteness and redundancy, as the author's disclaimer suggests: "the selection... by no means reflects any sort of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Manuel Castells - Communication Power
Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199567041, U.S.A., 2009, English"Where does power lie in the network society?" This is the central question that Manuel Castells tries to answer in his first book in ten years. After the disillusionment of the internet utopia as a liberating medium per se, Castells describes society using hardware/software terminology, drawing a stimulating picture. He grounds his analysis of the network society through different mass media conflicts like the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Edward A. Shanken - Art and Electronic Media
Phaidon Press, ISBN-13: 978-0714847825, UK, 2009, EnglishThe size of a book is often influencing the reader. The so called "coffee table" size is either meant to entertain the casual reader in a usually public reading space, or to enhance the publisher's effort on the chosen topic, giving it the physical status of a referential book. "Art and Electronic Media" is a coffee ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Rita Raley - Tactical Media
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816651511, USA, 2009, EnglishDespite being developed from a singular historical context, tactical media has shown remarkable staying power as a conceptual framework for politically engaged media art projects. In the classic theorization by Geert Lovink and David Garcia for the Next Five Minutes events, Michel de Certeau’s ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Francesco Brunotti/Various Authors - Nocturne
Persistencebit Records, Italy, 2009This is a product in the Bitmedia series, developed by the eclectic label Persistencebit. It is devoted to the production of multimedia works related to the ambient and modern electronics scenes. It's a book of photographs by Francesco Brunotti properly entitled "Nocturne" that includes a cd album stuck to the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Tatiana Bazzichelli - Networking, The Net as Artwork
Digital Aesthetic Research Center, Aarhus University, ISBN 8791810086
, Denmark, 2009, EnglishThis text is a summary of the author's efforts (beginning in the late-nineties) to analyse and facilitate opportunities to link digital artists and activists. Bazzichelli is the founder of the AHA mailing list, the most popular in Italian art and hacktivism. Here she relates a few of the scene's more peculiar moments ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International - Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
Melville House, ISBN 978-0091636586, USA, 2008, EnglishThe representation of space, the reclaiming of space and the recoding of space through a collective negotiation of coordinates and facts are a few of the issues that "geography" at large has posed after our spatial perceptions have been enormously amplified by the internet. A full set of new "visions" ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Matteo Pasquinelli - Animal Spirits, A Bestiary of the Commons
NAi Publishers, ISBN 978-9056626631, The Netherlands, 2009, EnglishHow can gentrification, free culture, pornography and Baudrillard coexist in the pages of the same book? Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons is a peculiar and oblique work that challenges many of cyberculture's recurring narratives. Matteo Pasquinelli, media activist and net porn expert, successfully ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mathieu O'Neil - Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0745327969, UK, 2009, EnglishThe internet, in the early days of social spreading, has represented the utopia of a medium fully supporting horizontal organizations within self established communities. If this has partially happened, especially in the most successful cases, it is also thanks to an internal organization that explicitly or implicitly establishes hierarchies. The communities that are able to produce outstanding outcomes ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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