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edited by Luís Costa & Rui Costa, Three Years in Nodar: Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural Portugal
book+2CD
, Edições Nodar,
315 pages
, Nodar 003,
ISBN 978-9899720503This thick book, coming with two CDs, is the outcome of a three-year program of international sound art residencies made by twin brothers who have here focused on their Portuguese hometown - Nodar. Forty sound artists were involved in reading, watching and listening to the documentation of the respective projects. In the several hundred color pages of the catalogue the reader can be temporary ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Stephen Jones , Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975
The MIT Press
, English,
464 pp.,
ISBN 978-0262014960This book is a small gem among the many dealing with the history of media art. Stephen Jones has undertaken an excellent and extensive research project, digging not only into his valuable personal archive of Australian media art (patiently assembled over decades) but also sifting through public libraries and private collections. This is neither a dispassionate nor pretentious academic work. It is, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Leah Lievrouw, Alternative and Activist New Media
Polity Press, 200 pages, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-0745641843Defining new media has always been tricky. Here, the author gives a clear and thorough definition of new media based on three components: the device/artifact which enables the ability to communicate, the communication activity/practice, and the social arrangements and organizational forms created around the artifact and the practice. This is a strong base that, coupled with an explicit reference to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Joanna Demers Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
216 pages, Oxford University Press, 2010, English, ISBN-13: 978-0195387667The stated purpose of Demers in this book is to find a unifying (strictly speaking) aesthetics for electronic music, despite the very different ideologies the different genres come from. Although the task would seem too vast, she restricts the timespan considered from the 1980s onwards. 1980 has been chosen because it represents a pivotal moment for democratization of electronic music ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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R. Klanten, M. Hubner, Alain Bieber Art & Agenda, Political Art and Activism
ISBN: 978-3899553420, 288 pages, 2011, English, Gestalten"Activism" in art has become a fashionable topic, especially after the beginning of the global financial crisis. Critiquing the system, formalizing regrets about the past and expressing fears about an uncertain future have become daily topics for major media. Artists are now also reflecting these feelings (maybe even more than during the sixties and seventies) with an abundance of creativity, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Margit Rosen - A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961—1973
576 pages,
The MIT Press
, 2011,
English,
ISBN: 978-0262515818In the history of media art, Zagreb has definitively been on the map since the very beginning. In 1961 there was a seminal movement called "New Tendencies", which officially started with a pioneering exhibition curated by Matko Mestrovic at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This international group of (self-defined) researchers were investigating how emerging computer technologies could be used to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Song-Ming Ang, Kim Cascone - The Book of Guilty Pleasures
Song-Ming Ang,
English
, Pages 208
, ISBN 978-9810880699Published on the occasion of the Singapore Biennial, 2011, this book is a collection of "confessions" from a selection of one hundred artists, curators, musicians, and writers about what they think are their aural guilty pleasures. These contributions certainly have a glamorous quality and are potentially scandalous – they are revealing things that would usually not be mentioned. This generates much ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Kate Mondloch - Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art
208 pages
, Universuty Of Minnesota Press
, 2010,
English,
ISBN 978-0816665228How many screens do we face in our daily lives? How much time each day do our eyes spend watching screens of various kinds? The answer can almost feel embarrassing, but it brings the huge influence that these mediation devices have on contemporary culture into focus. Unquestionably, we "see" differently now than how we "saw" twenty or forty years ago. Kate Mondloch focuses this essential ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mirko Tobias Schafer, Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
249 pages, Amsterdam University Press, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-9089642561Internet has been since the beginning of its commercial diffusion a popular medium, but only recently has there been a rising interest in its own internal social dynamics, including its folklore and how it has radically reshaped the relationship ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jussi Parikka - Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Univ Of Minnesota Press, English, 320 pages, 2010, ISBN: 978-0816667406For networked societies, emergent intelligence and swarms have taken on important explanatory power in terms of highly distributed modes of behavior, ranging over contexts and discussions as wide as military theory, economics, the development of software algorithms, political organisation and user-led content generation. Indeed, as new media theorists Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker have ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Bro Pold, Interface Criticism - Aesthetics Beyond Buttons
Aarhus University Press, ISBN: 978-8779345041, 2011, 296 pages, EnglishWorking on interface aesthetics since the early 2000s, the Digital Aesthetics Research Center at the University of Aarhus never gave up its pioneering research goals. Hosting the ReadMe software art festival in 2004, the organization started to ground its research on software culture, joining the local scholars of an active international scene. It's not by accident that in the introduction Andersen and Pøld ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Arjen Mulder, Joke Brouwer, Lars Spuybroek - The Politics of the Impure, Towards a Theory of the Imperfect
V2_ Publishing/NAi Publishers, ISBN: 978-9056627485, 208 pages, English, 2010Did technology historically foster the concept of "purity"? If we look back, we find in mechanical sounds and visual reproduction an attitude towards imitation and then improvement and enhancement of embedded characteristics. "High fidelity" and "high definition" are still popular approaches to sensory delight and the unstoppable complexity of technology has supported this for decades. It's the same ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Douglas Rushkoff - Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
OR Books, ISBN: 978-1935928157, 140 pages, 2010, EnglishIn the early days of digital networks there was a set of social conventions, called Netiquette, meant to facilitate interaction over networks (they were even codified in an official Internet Engineering Task Force document: RFC 1855). The time/space coordinates of the new medium (the network) were causing various embarrassing communication problems among online users, so the rules were ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša - Podpis / Signature
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, ISBN 978-9619219218, Ljubljana, 2010, English, SlovenianOne of the artistic projects that has been successfully able to challenge the bureaucratic concept of identity in its very essence is undoubtedly "Janez Janša". The three artists who all changed their names to that of the Slovenian prime minister have gone a long way since they started to play with their new identities, misleading media and the public through various actions. The uniqueness of a name, and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Joss Hands - @ Is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance And Rebellion In A Digital Culture
Pluto Press, ISBN: 978-0745327006, 2011, English, 224 pagesAfter all the myths about the magical use of digital networks for political reasons, including the north African uprisings, and the consequent hype, it's healthy to read a book focusing on giving context and perspective to practices. Hands feels it a necessity to question what Slavoj Zizek calls "interpassivity", or the illusion of doing something (like the popular act of signing online petitions) which don't really affect ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Ivana Bago, Olga Majcen Linn, Sunčica Ostoić Kontejner: Curatorial Perspectives on the Body, Science and Technology
ISBN: 978-3868951387, Kontejner/Revolver, Croatia, 2010, 242 pagesIf you don't know Kontejner you've missed something important. This curatorial collective based in Zagreb has already a decade of history (celebrated in this book), running three different triennials about body, art, science and technology, while developing impressive relationships between the corporeal and the incorporeal. In the recurrent celebration of institutions' existence in multiples of five, this is one ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Salome Voegelin - Listening to Noise and Silence: Toward a Philosophy of Sound Art
Continuum Publishing Corporation, ISBN-13: 978-1441162076, 2010, English, 256 pagesThe shared perception that sound art is either a restricted field with a fairly short number of valid artists, or an expanding field that would soon become a loose way of describing an artwork (like "video art") can be disputed only with significant research and enough supporting documentation. Salome Voegelin has written an excellent book about sound art, escaping cliché and easy categorizations. She ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Zizi Papacharissi A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites [Paperback]
![Zizi Papacharissi, A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites [Paperback], 336 pages, Routledge, English, ISBN: 978-0415801812, a_networked_self_Zizi_Papacharissi.jpg](http://www.neural.it/art/images6/a_networked_self_Zizi_Papacharissi.jpg)
336 pages, Routledge, English, ISBN: 978-0415801812Although hundreds of millions of people use social media platforms almost instinctively, the value, the meaning and the scale of what they are doing there is often missed, or, at best, only guessed at. In the context of a sort of global social experiment (which can't be disconnected from the rise of related industries), personal dynamics have to deal with a completely different dimension that does not ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Nilo Casares, Brian Mackern - netart_latino database
MEIAC, ISBN: 978- 8461343942Supported by the work of the curator Nilo Casares, this book is unique. Not only because it's printed in a limited edition number of copies, but more because of its content. Produced in collaboration with the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáno (MEIAC) in Spain, it focuses on Brian Mackern's "netart_latino database" - the primary work of this Uruguayan visual, net and sound ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jean-Yves Leloup - Digital Magma
Sternberg Press, 2010, English, ISBN 978-1-933128-70-2, 176 pagesA trajectory of almost thirty years is taken as a sort of hypertext path by Jean-Yves Leloup in his parceled examination of electronic music and its rapid and compelling evolution. It's composed of short chapters focusing on a single topic. It starts with the amorphous spaces of the "Rave", and continues with the music "Territories", between tourism, nomadism and connected globalism, and the "Mix", with ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Eve Shapiro - Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415996969, 248 pages, February 9, 2010, EnglishHow technologies are shaping and affecting our body has been often discussed in terms of "representation" and identity. Eve Shapiro is a sociologist researching the dynamic relationship between identity, embodiment and community, mainly within North America. In this book she's able to investigate various aspects of the definition of gender through a number of different ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Adrian Mackenzie - Wirelessness, Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures
The MIT Press, 2010, 256 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01464-9After years talking about the revolution in space perception induced by the real time IT networks, the strong industrial trend to go wireless whenever possible has pervaded space and habits. We're slowly "getting rid of cables", pushed by the industry as if cables were parasites, but unconsciously changing our culture without being aware of what is really happening technologically. Mackenzie fruitfully ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson, Theo Van Leeuwen V01CE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media
The MIT Press, August 2010, ISBN: 978-0262013901, A Leonardo Book, 440 pp., 20 illus.Born in the context of the rich Australian audio and sound studies (as all the three editors are), this is an anthology of texts with a wide range of perspectives, dealing with the essence of the voice as a primary method of communicating and expressing, at various levels, the countless mediations that technologies apply. The symbolic, strategical or significant use of voice in dance, cinema, online ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Chris Salter - Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance
The MIT Press, 480 pages, English, ISBN-13: 978-0262195881There are few books that can be described as "essential" in a specific field. This is one of them. Salter extensively explores performances intertwined with technology in all the major contemporary domains (theatre, music, dance, visual arts, architecture, interactive environments), advocating its centrality. Although vast in size (more than 400 pages), this is a very focused research project and extremely ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jaishree K. Odin - Hypertext and the Female Imaginary
Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2010, Language: English, ISBN-13: 978-0816666690Hypertext represents a cornerstone in experimental literature. From the first experiments until the late adopters, it has evolved from a technique to a literary strategy. Hypertext appears to have been the cultural base for the current fragmented, multi-device and multitasking way of dealing with information. This multi-dimensional discontinuity is the terrain allowinr writers to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Edited by LAb[au] - MetaDeSIGN
![lab[au]_metadesign.jpg](http://www.neural.it/art/images6/lab%5Bau%5D_metadesign.jpg)
Edited by LAb[au], MetaDeSIGN, Les presses du réel, 2010, English, French, 224 pages, ISBN: 978-2- 84066-404-8This is a comprehensive monograph of LAb[au], laboratory for architecture and urbanism and artist group founded in Brussels in 1997. The group’s name merges two different meanings: a phonetic and a written one: that of the French and Dutch pronunciation of "labo" which relates to an experimental approach and that of "bau", the German term for construction. LAb[au] has a rigorous approach ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Gerald Raunig - A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement
Semiotext(e), ISBN-13: 978-1584350859, March 31, 2010, EnglishAfter "Art and Revolution", Gerald Raunig has written a different book elaborating on a concept formulated by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari about the machine, seen not as technical apparatus, but as a social composition. The reference is quite evident in the title ("A Thousand Machines"), but it's only the starting point. Although close to "Art and Revolution", with which it shares some material, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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VJing by 375 Wikipedians
Greyscale Press, ISBN 978-2-9700706-0-3, August 2010, Format: Paperback, 4.25" x 6.875", 122 pagesIn her introduction, Ana Carvalho describes the production process of this book as a "wiki-sprint." It is, in fact, the result of gathering together the various people who contributed to the extensive defining of "Vjing" during a week-long writing marathon at the Mapping Festival in Geneva in May 2010. Some of them were physically present, others were online, but people from a number of countries formed the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Carsten Nicolai - Moiré Index
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899553086, 312 pages, August 1, 2010, EnglishCarsten Nicolai has multiple attitudes towards sound, art, science and graphic design, but they are almost perfectly consistent with each other. A follow-up to "Grid Index" (a comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems), this new heavyweight book is dedicated to moiré, the graphical pattern created when two grids are overlaid at an angle. The beauty of this graphical interference (which every ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Clare Butcher, Angela Plohman - The Future of the Lab
Baltan Laboratories, ISBN 9789081583015, English, 2010After the establishment of the MIT Media Lab in 1985 the concept of a "Lab", meant as a space for research and experimentation with technologies and media in general, has evolved profoundly. If in the beginning the lab was a privileged space to use unaffordable tools, increasing access to technology has resulted in a shift towards the sharing of skills and visions as the primary focus. In its initial mission ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Edited by Brandon LaBelle, Manual for the construction of a sound as a device to elaborate social connection
Errant Bodies Press: Surface Tension Supplement No. 4, ISBN: 978-0-9772594-8-9, 104 page + CDAs sound art is a mostly conceptual process, it can be easily set in the autonomous ecosystem of social public spaces. Sound art practices can be easily grafted into transportation systems or other crowded places without losing their aura. The "Manual" project, which was staged in Oslo, gave six experimental media artists from around Europe the opportunity to work on different projects in the city space. Parts ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Dieter Daniels, Gunther Reisinger - Net Pioneers 1.0, Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art
Sternberg Press, ISBN: 978-1-933128-71-9, July 2010 / Hardcover / 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches / 244 pp / 15 b&wThere was a time when harsh debates took place about the "fundamental" difference between net.art and net art (with or without the dot). In the subtitle of this book is a small revolution that intrinsically coins a new, more comprehensive term: "net-based art". What we will call it in twenty years is hard to predict, but books like this will turn out to be necessary for future art historians. In this book ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain - Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262514354, 656 pages, April 30, 2010, EnglishTwo years after "Access Denied", the same team of editors have published a new thick book about internet censorship and filtering. It's another project by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a consortium of academics focused on free speech and government interactions with the Internet. This sequel is divided in two parts. The first includes "theory and analysis" with very informative essays that the editors also ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, LUST - Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture
Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN-13: 978-1568989372, September 1, 2010, EnglishThis book is based on the sharing of knowledge between two colleagues at UCLA (Reas, one of the two Processing creators, and McWilliams) and the Dutch LUST collective. It is divided into five chapters that take their names from actions that sound like powerful programming language instructions: Repeat, Transform, Parameterize, Visualize and Simulate. It could be mistook for a purely educational book, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Vito Campanelli - Web Aesthetics, How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society
NAI Publishers, 2010, 276 pages, English, ISBN 978-90-5662-770-6The aesthetics of networks and the web, approached from the most acknowledged definition of aesthetics, is an underdeveloped field despite more than a decade of web design and hundreds of web-based artworks. What can be called "Web Aesthetics" is the main research focus of Vito Campanelli (media theorist and Neural contributor), who analyzed the web and its role since the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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