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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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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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The Composites, law enforcement media and literature
The Composites opens up a new space between language and software, harnessing some of the masterpieces of literary fiction (in terms of character names and descriptions of physical appearance - mug-shots basically) and putting these into a 'law enforcement sketch' programme. Online since mid-February 2012 it is growing in cult status. Viewers of the site input ideas and suggestions; ('Many
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edited by Thomas Bartscherer, Roderick Coover - Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts
448 pages
, University Of Chicago Press
, 2011, English
, ISBN: 978-0226038315The communication problem between humanism and science (defined in the past as the "two cultures" problem) is not a recent one: even William Gibson, in the late eighties, was encouraging people to talk about the slash between humanism and science. This book is trying to focus on the topic using a new methodology. It's an edited collection of texts, but not just a mere anthology: it's intended as a dialogue ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sea and Spar between, digital poetical ocean
"Sea and Spar between", a work by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland, is a generator of poetic lines formed by melding words and expressions from "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville and the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The work looks like a huge blue "ocean" of digital lines (about 225 trillion in total) explorable by randomly moving the mouse or by choosing precise coordinates similar to
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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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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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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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Microcodes, the world without syntax errors
The descriptive, literary role of programming code has not being properly exploited, especially by writers and poets. Yet there's an incredible potential to create sense through the syntax and grammar rules of a programming language. Pall Thayer has started to rigorously write concepts in Perl in his Microcodes project. Slowly progressing from
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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, visual sound poetry for iPhone
As Geoff Huth wrote, "we are living through what might be the greatest age of visual poetry, in a time when the methods of production and distribution are such that the form can prosper without the need for extensive capital". A convergence of factors, including the Internet, print-on-demand publishing,
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Embroidered text messages, stitching virtual memory
Are we in danger of losing our memory? Lynne Brindley, Head of the British Library, has warned that as websites come and go, the memory of the nation may disappear too, leaving historians and citizens of the future with a "black hole in the knowledge base of the 21st century". On a more personal level,
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Evan Roth - Explicit Content Only
Inge Records, USA, 2008, EnglishThe "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" logo in black and white stripes, as with all mandatory logos, has been creatively used for ironising a feature which is still very typical of the U.S.: governmental support for parental paranoia. In fact the sticker was pushed by the Parents Music Resource Center ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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KeyTweeter, Twitting Without Filters
It has been almost ten years since the launch of Life Sharing by the (then) enfants terribles of net.art known as 0100101110101101.org. The project, which lasted three years, involved the automatic publication in real time of all the data stored on the artists' computer. Documents, emails and
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Thumbarumba, turning the ordinary web into a textual treasure hunt
"Tumbarumba" by New York-based media artist Ethan Ham is a Firefox extension that implants stories by "outstanding authors" into the text of ordinary websites. This unexpected infiltration of poetry into common everyday web surfing presents a shift in context away from the mundane act of visiting a website into a literary
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Qwitter, the Darwinian side of social networks
Twitter is the web service that perfectly epitomizes the information sharing addiction of our age. The micro-blogging platform allows users to create a constant flow of short text-based messages (tweets) that can be spread with different systems, such as SMS, RSS or Instant Messaging. Updates usually
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum - Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262113113, U.S.A., 2008, EnglishThe cover of Mechanisms shows a hard drive recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Centre, a scorched and partially destroyed ‘black box’ from which data was nevertheless successfully recovered in the aftermath of the terrorist disaster. A haunted artifact, this unsettling image speaks volumes of the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Street Radio, oral tradition digitally spread
The public installation project Street Radio has been recently launched by Armin Medosch at the central Southampton railway station, and it'll last till November 2008. Medosch has realized a radio network drawing on Hivenetworks technology and Alexei
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Memetic Simulation no. 2, memetic shoot 'em up
Shoot 'em up (or shmup for short) is a computer and video game genre where the player usually controls a vehicle or character and fights large numbers of enemies with shooting attacks, typically of a highly stylized nature. In Japan, where the genre is still a lively one, they are simply known as "shooting games"
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New American Dictionary: Security/Fear Edition, lexicon for warmongers
The last Canadian Institute for Infinitely Small Things action is both provocative and funny. They distributed in the culturally exciting city of Vancouver public libraries and bookstores around 40 copies of the New American Dictionary: Security/Fear Edition.
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Richard Barbrook - The Class of the New
book - Openmute - ISBN 0955066476Identifying the 'new' in economical and social evolution has been a necessity for the capital since it reached a global status. Then after expanding intrinsically into a networked environment the urge of tracking innovation nurtured by productive workers has dramatically arisen. But this nothing newer ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Concrete Dialogues, narrating the city
The cultural mediation applied by the web to a territory representation is often conveyed by Google Maps, unfortunately the proprietary de facto standard for urban mapping. But even within its software constraints, many initiatives has started to capitalize on the possibility of collectively share some data,
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Peoplequotepeople, software against authorship
Peoplequotepeople is another valuable fist against that heavy and tired unhistorical giant called authorship, who is still trying to stop the provocative and revolutionary evolution of the network(ed) culture. The project seemingly takes the
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Bloomsday On Twitter
Perhaps one day we will remember Twitter as the peak of exhibitionism on the Internet, a phenomenon that started with blogs and social networks. It is hard to imagine anything more compulsive: Twitter is a community of thousands of people who publish brief
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Spamland, scripting video with spam
Spamland is the series of movies produced by the The Brothers McLeod using as scripts 'inauthentic text' used in spam messages. Inauthentic text is a generated grammatically-correct nonsense that spammers use on top
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(edited by) Femke Snelting and Peter Westenberg - The Language of Sharing
book - Constant V/J9This is the catalogue of Verbindigen/Jonction 9 festival that took place in 2005 between Brussels, Liège and Antwerp. Taking over language as a medium, being the most complex and naturally one related to local, cultural, historical and social development was the utopia of choice pursued by the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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[the] xxxxx [reader]
xxxxx/OpenMute - ISBN 0955066441Well placed in the underground tradition of obscure and fascinating books, this anthology edited by the Berlin-based collective xxxxx take the challenge to conceptually intertwine two different sign domains: programming code and word. The book is defined by its authors as 'a radical, new space for artistic ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, Stephanie Strickland - Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One
cd-rom - Electronic Literature Organization - ISSN 19322011Even if (unfortunately) mostly celebrated in the native English, electronic literature is a huge, and often underestimated field of research in terms of computer art aesthetic. It's a field where the brain processes as usual the language, while the works show up an added 'machinic' calculation causing a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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WhisperBox, interactive sound installation in Second Life
Second Life, one of the most populated MMORPG, is an important watching point to verify how the borderline between real and virtual tends to become more and more ephemeral. In the last months Second Life has seen many famous names and brands of the real world coming into its virtual spaces. The Reuters news agency has opened a virtual editorial office, IBM decided to test here its v-business
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Wordie, words as a networked pleasure
Let's say that almost the whole Google page ranking (so the fundaments of the web economy at large) is based on (key)words excellence. Let's say that words are still the only human understandable parameters used for content full-indexing and for multimedia data classification. Let's say that the
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Phonetica, similarities in babel territories
Phonetica by Nao Tokui is a project that identifies homophones in the more than six thousands existing world languages. It's a cross-disciplinary project that, reconciling art and science, propose an innovative key to the reading of the
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Charade, oral tradition in the electronic era
Imagine that your most precious book is about to be wiped out. Will you be able to memorize a paragraph, a chapter or the whole text? This is the statement in the call for joining Charade, the last effort by Simon Pope (a member of the historical I/O/D
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Difference Engine, extracting the metaphysics from the net
Difference Engine is an installation made by James Coupe for the Stills Gallery Edinburgh in 2005. It takes its name from the famous project made by the mathematician Charles Babbage at the beginning of the nineteenth century that wanted to
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Siegfried Zielinski - Deep Time of the Media
Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, The MIT Press, ISBN 0262240491Stop barely deducting, let's find new sources. This seem to be the healthy and rich spirit that inspires the Zielinski's precious research, finally able to radically call into question the so hackneyed new media historiography. Instead of enjoying the usual well-known media archeology references, the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Themail, electronic mail content relationships
Themail is a project developed by Judith Donath (MIT Media Labs), Fernanda B. Viégas (IBM Research) and Scott Golder (HP Laboratories). The starting point of the research is: the majority of internet users
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Ten-sided, ten identities in a blog
 Ten-sided is a project based on a blog (programmed using the r-Planet free software developed by Joel Watson, Phil Hagelberg e Andre Arko), that invited ten international artists (among them Francis Hwang) with very different
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