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AAVV - Sound Exchange, Experimental Music Cultures In Central And Eastern Europe
 edited by: Carsten Seiffarth, Carsten Stabenow, Golo Föllmer - PFAU Verlag, ISBN 978-3897274877, 416 pages, 2012, German, EnglishThere was a long tradition of dismissing and repressing experimental music in Central and Eastern Europe during socialist times. And even after 1989 the West didn't fully explore what was missed in those decisive few decades. This book begins the process of making up for lost time, bypassing the classic academic approach ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Acoustic Space #11 - Techno-Ecologies
 edited by Rasa Smite, Eric Kluitenberg and Raitis Smits - RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture, ISSN: 1407-2858, 168 pages, 2012, EnglishAcoustic Space is a journal founded in 1998 that for a few years now has functioned as a peer-reviewed journal, usually printed every year and coinciding with a festival on the same topic (including conferences and an exhibition), held in Riga (Latvia). The main theme of issue #11 (relating to the 2011 event) is shaped on Felix Guattari's ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jussi Parikka - What is Media Archaeology?
 Polity, ISBN: 9780745650265, 200 pages, 2012, English To understand the "futuristic" present we live in it's very important to know our past. This seems particularly true when it comes to media culture. In fact it appears that the only feasible kind of time traveling is what is usually defined as "media archaeology", which allows us to re-create and use the same mediations on content that ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jon Wozencroft, Neville Brody - Fuse 1-20: From Invention to Antimatter - Twenty Years of FUSE
 Taschen, ISBN: 978-3836525015, 416 pages, 2012, EnglishIn 1991 two of the most talented graphic designers of all time (Jon Wozencroft and Neville Brody) launched a unique experiment: FUSE, an annual publication packaged in a cardboard box that contained a printed zine with articles relating to typography culture, a floppy disk with four fonts and four posters that utilized ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Fujiko Nakaya, Anne-Marie Duguet - Anarchive n°5: Fog
 Brouillard Anarchive [book + DVD-rom + DVD], ISBN: 978-2951813229, English, Japanese, FrenchIn what format can a monograph be shaped in current times? It's an open question that deals with two main domains of problems: the content should be as complete as possible in every direction; and to prolong its intrinsic referential attitude, it should be accessible for as long as possible. This monograph ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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E. Gabriella Coleman - Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
Princeton University Press, ISBN: 978-0691144610, 264 pages, 2012, EnglishThe whole ecosystem of hacking and FLOSS has rarely been considered by academic research, despite often being recognized as a terrific collective production. It has been considered more as a "tool" and not recognized as an important abstract "laboratory" of labour and freedom. Coleman focuses on hacker communities ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Tony D. Sampson - Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 978-0816670055, 248 pages, 2012, EnglishThe concept of "virality" in networks was initially associated with the infection of computer viruses (and partly still is), before coming to describe the rapid and endemic spreading of content (typically visual), something that has become a holy grail for marketers concerned with commercial reward. The former ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Charles R. Acland, Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence
Duke University Press, ISBN: 978-0822349198, 328 pages, 2012, EnglishSubliminal communication, or being exposed to messages too quick or hidden to be consciously perceived, is an enduringly popular topic, thanks to its almost magical way of affecting us. Despite plenty of scientific evidence debunking the effectiveness of such techniques, they have permeated the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Peter Cusack - Sounds From Dangerous Places
Rer Megacorp [2CD + book], ISBN: 9780956018410, 80 pages, 2012, EnglishPeter Cusack has traveled to what he defines as "dangerous places", including sites that have suffered environmental devastation (think Chernobyl) and locations at the edges of military zones. In many such places it is the local population who suffer the most. The author engaged in field recording activities in ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey - Evil Media
 The MIT Press, ISBN: 978 0262017855, 248 pages, 2012, EnglishThe term "multimedia" has sounded obsolete for more than a decade now. This book by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey brings its archaic status into even sharper relief. Here "media" or the strategies of mediating information proliferate almost indefinitely, being mostly digital or networked ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Frans Evers - The Academy of The Senses: Synesthetics in Science, Art and Education
 ArtScience Interfaculty Press - [book] ISBN: 978-94-6190-819-3, 300 pages, 2012, English The study of cross-modal perception or synesthesia is a subject of research that has found a renewed interest also due to the growth of audiovisual experimentation and the convergence of traditional media in the digital era. While there have been several recent publications on the subject, this book offers ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Carolyn Guertin - Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art
 Continuum, ISBN13: 9781441131904, 304 pages, EnglishGuertin begins to define the territory of her investigation as the "third space of authorship", borrowing a definition from Homi Bhabha's "Location of Culture". According to the author this is a site of resistance and renegotiation, in contrast to the first space of authorship as "oral culture", and the second space as "solitary genius" ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Alexander R. Galloway - The Interface Effect
Polity, ISBN: 9780745662534, 200 pages, 2012, English
Galloway defines interfaces as "action-oriented processes." They have "effects" (thus the title), "as they transform material states and are themselves effects of other things." This theoretical work investigates how such transformations occur and the effects they enable. It starts by discussing the actuality of Manovich's "Language of new media" book
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Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues
edited by Sarah Cook, Sara Diamond - Riverside Architectural Press / ABC Art Books Canada [book + DVD-ROM], ISBN: 9781894773225, 1100 pages, 2012, English
This imposing tome of more than one thousand pages is not too big once you realize that it hosts a systematized archive of ten years of dialogues at the seminal Banff New Media Institute from 1995 to 2005. There are 150 original transcripts obtained from thousands of hours of recordings of various events, including the annual "Interactive Screen
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Eduardo Navas - Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling
Springer Vienna Architecture, ISBN: 9783709112625, 230 pages, 2012, English
The act of remixing, enabled by the technical possibility of sampling, innate in the structural definition of digital technologies, has a seminal contemporary importance. But despite its ubiquitous use, there are very few books that engage with "remix" as a paradigm, beyond its music composition applications and/or copyright consequences
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Shoshana Amielle Magnet - When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, And The Technology Of Identity
Duke University, ISBN: 9780822351351, 224 pages, 2011, English
Despite a decade of proliferation in pervasive control systems, the analysis of the effectiveness of these systems and the criticism of the lack of counter-control over their extensive application seems to be quite weak. The basic functionality of these technologies has improved over the years and they have started to enter our daily lives - an example being face recognition software
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Site Of Sound: Of Architecture And The Ear: Vol 2
edited by Brandon LaBelle, Claudia Martinho - Errant Bodies Press; Pap/Com [book + cd], ISBN: 9780982743904, 304 pages, 2011, English
A historical displacement has radically changed our notions of "local" and "remote" through the embracing of digital networks in our daily life, which are socially - and more so politically - shaping how "we sense where we are". In this book this displacement is analyzed from the sound artist’s point of view, treated in many different ways
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Towards The Third Culture - The Co-existence Of Art, Science And Technology
edited by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński - Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, ISBN: 9788361587545, 192 pages, 2011, English, Polish
The "Third Culture" category refers to a seminal John Brockman book from 1995, in which the author examines the work of several renowned scientists who were communicating their new ideas directly to the general public (Brockman in return refers to Charles Percy Snow's book from 1959 entitled "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution"
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Madeline Schwartzman- See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception
Black Dog, ISBN: 9781907317293, 192 pages, 2011, English
Beyond the abundance of discourses concerned with our becoming more like cyborgs (the extending of our abilities through various technological means and having our perceptive systems reprogrammed by the constant use of screens, headphones and tactile interfaces), there is a certain matter of fact: we are perceiving our bodies
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Marcus Wohlsen - Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life
 Current, ISBN: 9781617230028, 256 pages, 2011, English
In the 2000s one of the most influential (yet mostly silent) social phenomena involving digital media was the so-called "Makers", whose name derived from the magazine "Make", which aimed to support and inspire a growing community of digital bricoleurs. In a sense this was a pop outcome of the vast underground hacker culture
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Charlie Gere - Community Without Community In Digital Culture
Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9781137026668, 208 pages, 2012, English
The title of this book very effectively synthesizes a complex essence in a few words. Gere is here investigating how digital technologies, despite their promise to create spaces for virtual communication that bring people together, also offer "non-relations", and so "non-communities." The author argues that technologies
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The Social Media Reader
edited by Michael Mandiberg - NYU Press, ISBN: 9780814764060, 299 pages, 2012, English
Although the majority of internet users have become greatly fascinated with commercial social media platforms, the cultural consequences of this mass adoption of new habits and conventions in daily personal
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Geert Lovink - Networks Without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media
Polity, ISBN: 9780745649689, 220 pages, 2012, English
Geert Lovink's network theories have regularly found their way into academic publishing over the last decade, during another decade of life for the networks themselves. Here Lovink effectively interweaves his own research with stimuli from the multiple initiatives he has regularly
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Matthew K. Gold - Debates in the Digital Humanities
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 9780816677955, 504 pages, 2012, English
Does the fact that even Google started to pay (widely announced) grants to digital humanities scholars legitimize the "digital humanist" title and definition? This comprehensive collection of essays begins the process of questioning what constitutes this phenomenon. It's worth noting that effort has been made here to stay away from the usual process of coining another definition. Originating from conferences
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Stefan Szczelkun, Anthony Iles - Agit Disco
Mute Books, ISBN: 9781906496517, 184 pages, 2011, English
This is a conceptual, readable book with a well-developed and unique theme. Agit Disco, in fact, is a "collection of annotated playlists made by 23 writers documenting how music has politically influenced them." The editors call it an "archive project" and it's doubtless that, but it's also a live archive as the editors have personally involved the contributors in a process of sharing music, thoughts and
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edited by Alexei Monroe State of Emergence: The First NSK Citizens' Congress in Berlin
Plöttner Verlag Gmbh, ISBN: 9783862110483, 2011, 256 pages, English
Although self-proclaimed states are not a new concept, not even in art, the "NSK State in Time" established by the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) in 1992, was one of the most consistent and historically remarkable experiment. In fact it came out as a supreme expression of freedom in the beginning of the collapsing ex-Yugoslavia, creating a boundless state and issuing very plausible
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Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin - Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life
The MIT Press,
ISBN: 978-0262042482
, 304 pages, 2011, English
One of the first broad discussions engaged in software art circles in the early 2000s concerned the pervasiveness of software in everyday life, at that time already perceivable in the daily transformations of the world. This book stems and flourishes from a similar starting point, investigating deeply the fundamental relationship between code and how it produces/creates/conditions space (physical or
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Howard Rheingold - Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
The MIT Press, ISBN: 9780262017459, 272 pages, 2012, English
Howard Rheingold has already proved himself a one-of-a-kind writer when it comes to technology and society. He's not a theorist, nor a classic academic, but a skilled researcher and writer whose approach to technology is factual, analytical and clarifying, all viewed from a social perspective. Here he addresses one of the most underestimated dangers of the internet as a collective tool to grow: the deadly mixture
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edited by Sabine Himmelsbach - produced@
Revolver Berlin,
ISBN: 978-3868951950
256 pages, German, English, 2012
Thinking for a minute of all the books celebrating the histories of different singular institutions put together, we can then imagine a sort of heterogeneous encyclopedia, comprehensively detailing a large chunk of a specific cultural scene (in this case media art). Tracing back what a single active entity has done over the years is not self-celebrating, but rather an important act of documentation. Here Edith-
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Timothy C. Campbell - Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 9780816674657, 232 pages, English, 2011
In "Improper Life" Campbell develops his thought-provoking philosophical writing around the contrast between biopolitics and its current degeneration, which he terms "thanatopolitics" (politics obsessed by death.) The author looks at instances of this idea in the work of famous recent philosophers like Agamben, Esposito and Sloterdijk, and especially on "apparatus" as analyzed by Heidegger and his
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Roberto Simanowski, Jörgen Schäfer, Peter Gendolla - Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. A Handbook
Transcript Verlag, ISBN: 9783837611304, 350 pages, 2011, English
After distancing and distinguishing itself from traditional literature as much as possible, digital literature has achieved a stable academic status and a decent number of departments are now dedicated to its study. Still the general impression is that it remains a liquid and experimental territory with many different directions, still lacking a consistent identity in order to be properly acknowledged. This book
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VV.AA. - Störung: Sound & Visual Art
Störung/Cameo, Book+DVD, str009, 2012
Per diverso tempo, la natura effimera dei festival (eventi nei quali è possibile rapportarsi ad opere d’arte, conferenze e live acts che terminano appena la manifestazione si conclude) è stata messa in discussione. Sono stati portati avanti diversi tentativi di fornire esperienze più durature attraverso YouTube e Vimeo Channel, i live streaming, i set fotografici su Flickr e le pagine Facebook, ma
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Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Janis Jefferies, Rachel Zerihan - Interfaces of Performance
Ashgate, ISBN: 9780754675761, 232 pages, 2009, English
The concept of the performance space has been definitively questioned by the use of media technologies, multiplying the possible dimensions and extending the borders. Even more important, perhaps, is the role of the "interface" in the performance field. Here the term "interface" is very well defined as "a shared space of exchange and dialogue as well as a site of contestation and
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Edited by Caleb Kelly - Sound
Whitechapel Gallery, ISBN-13: 9780854881871, 240 pages, 2011, English
There seems to be a kind of sub-genre in sound art books: the anthology of historical texts. Perhaps because sound art is still a hybrid which lacks a well defined and acknowledged identity, this attitude towards compiling selections of important texts from renowned artists and musicians seems quite peculiar. Somehow it feels like a huge effort to be exhaustive and consistent, as with a comprehensive
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James Gleick - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Pantheon, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-0375423727, Hardcover: 544 pages
This is an excellent history of information theory and science. The quantification and qualification of information is a process here investigated through key historical moments and figures, contextualized through biographical facts and narratives, starting with the amazing mechanisms of the "Talking drums
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