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Random Selection In Random Image - Hypermateriality
Jan Robert Leegte’s new works re-examine the hypermateriality of the digital domain. Educated as a sculptor and architect this Dutch artist has a unique approach to art in the context of the internet. His recent online work‚ Random Selection in Random Image pushes the boundaries of both the notion of creativity and of individual perception. Leegte has created a smart commentary on the
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Facebook Demetricator - De-quantifier Of Social Connections
The reward-return system Facebook uses to entice users back to their profile to check for likes on posted photographs, comments on their status updates and peruse their ever-growing friend count creates an algorithm of addiction most users can testify to. Statistical number-crunching and manipulation of this data
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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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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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PirateBox DIY - Networking Surroundings
The number of times we find ourselves in a public place looking for an open or accessible wireless network shows to what extent we have to negotiate our digital presence and relationship with the digital entities surrounding us. The resulting "net-scape" is definitively flat with mostly closed commercial and home-based networks. David Darts' "PirateBox" is a self-contained mobile communication
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Plinko Poetry - Poetic Tweets Juice
"Obama texting Past convicted Catch receive Egypt’s dog". Here is an example of a poem signed by Plinko Poetry , an interactive poetry generator designed by Deqing Sun and Inessah Selditz. The single verses are composed by recombining words contained in NYTimes and Foxnews tweets, through a playful and interactive selection mechanism
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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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Street Ghosts - Virtualised Reality Made Real
The grid swallows us. Increasingly it defines and shapes our positions. Italian artist Paolo Cirio uses this uncomfortable fact as the basis for a new work. Street Ghosts reveals a sense of the awkwardness generated by the invasion of public streets by indiscreet media organisations. Google Street View, for
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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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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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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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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory
The MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0262015424, 256 pages, 2011, English
Programmability as ideology. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is originally discussing how the unavoidability of networked computation in our society has permeated its own basic functioning principles and structures and the social potential consequences of the ephemerality of software. Furthermore the "ambiguity and specificity" of software make it a "thing" especially for the relationships it enables, including what the
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Facebook ID Card, hyperreal online ID
Sometimes it seems as if a few IT companies are slowly preparing to rule the world one day. Facebook and Google in particular have a tendency to stretch the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviour. German artist Tobias Leingruber has responded to the on-going privacy breeches by Facebook by creating a Facebook identity card in anticipation of the coming Facebook World Order. The project is
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YouGlitch, deliberate video failures
YouGlitch is a website created by Martial Geoffre-Rouland and Benjamin Gaulon, based on Corrupt, their web-based Glitch Art Software. Corrupt, built back in 2004 with Proce55ing, enables the corruption of image files through repetitive replacements that can lead to numerous corrupted versions. The process is simple and clear: after users download and install
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ScratchML, encoding scratches
ScratchML is a project planned by Michael Auger, Jamie Wilkinson and Kyle McDonald with the goal of creating a new markup language for encoding the musical scratches of Dj sets in realtime. Afterwards, the scratches are analyzed, re-created and shared through databases. During the Brooklyn Hack Day 2012 the first prototypes of this project were developed by the planners together with other
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Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl, Birgit Rinagl, Franz Thalmair - Content. Form. Im-material
Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nurnberg, ISBN-13: 978-3869841878, 264 pages, English, 2011
This book starts with an excellent question: "Why is it still easier to get an entire museum collection on the Internet than to get a single work of Internet-based Art in a museum space?". It coherently synthesizes five years of work by the Vienna-based collective CONT3XT.NET, founded in 2006 and active in the production of artworks and exhibitions of internet-based art. Reflecting their own methodology
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edited by Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, Mashup Cultures
Springer
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256 pages, 2010, English
Participatory strategies involving the collective manipulation of digital content were hampered in the past due to worries about intellectual property rights, but they are increasingly becoming welcomed now that commercial online social networks have begun to understand the inherent recreational potential. Sonvilla-Weiss has stated that he picked the title of this book because in "web developments [it]
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Olga Goriunova - Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415893107, 176 pages, 2011, English
Beyond being a co-organizer of four editions of the mythical read.me software art festivals (each of which was documented in a reader she co-edited) Olga Goriunova is an author who has spent a lot of research time delving into concepts of software in art and society. For many years she also co-curated the online software art repository runme.org, which collected digital artworks dealing with the
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The Deleted City, social web archeology
The project of Richard Vijgen Deleted City is an interactive data visualization of the myriad of data hosted on the free web hosting Geocities, that was very popular at the dawn of the commercial web. The city was the successful metaphor that characterized this site: the users could easily create their own Web pages and click on the "city" in which they preferred to live based on the type of content
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Antidatamining BOT, financial kamikaze
Since 2006, the RYBN collective has been using the tools of data mining (automated extraction of knowledge from large amounts of data) to subvert its own goals, building unusual representations and analyses of financial and social mechanisms. The project Antidatamining includes works such as "Flashcrash sonification", a graphic and sound representation of the 20-minute stock market crash
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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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Poser, invading digital photo frames
In a very short time since they appeared, digital photo frames have become so popular that they now regularly invite aesthetic experimentation. In his recent project Poser, Constant Dullaart has offered an ironic view of this media. Slipping inside the device, the artist has designed some chroma keys of
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Quantum Parallelograph, quantistic parallel lives
The ' Quantum Parallelograph ', designed by Patrick Stevenson-Keating, is a bizarre medical-looking white device made to translate our invisible inner workings into various languages interpreted by industry experts. The information produced by the machine is related to various
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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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TinyRiot, the sound of a thousand (tiny) riots
With most demonstra- tions and street protests it's hard to know exactly who hurled the first bottle. Amidst a sea of people engaged in a collaborative state of mind, the sense of anonymity generated can be very empowering. In the ever-congealing, international abyss of the iPhone (the networks, the users and the apparatus itself) anonymity in this perceived collective is curbed by a registered phone number
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Josephine Bosma - Nettitudes, Let's Talk Net Art
Institute of Network Cultures/NAi Publishers, ISBN: 978-9056628000, 272 pages, English, 2011Who needs another book on net art? After reading this book one is forced to answer: me! In fact, different from almost all the other books on this topic (some of which are reviewed here), this is the first one written by someone who has closely followed the net.art movement since the beginning. Josephine Bosma's privileged perspective is that of an insider journalist and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Boskoi, wilderness addiction
Boskoi is an application for Android mobiles that allows people to create a checklist of geo-localized spontaneous food in urban areas. Created by Joey van der Bie, Maarten van der Mark and Vincent Vijn the application was developed with Ushahidi, an useful open source platform for collecting, displaying and mapping information on mobile devices. Recently it has been tried in Amsterdam where
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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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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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FoodMatch, surfing the fridges
The single portions of food at the supermarket are a strange business entity. The skimpy, perfect packaging directly links with the little windows of the huge buildings of one-room flats that are filling up all the big cities. The quantity of food inside them is always slightly more than necessary, so
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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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Highscreen, hacking public spaces with media archaeology
Net.Art already belongs to media archaeology as Oslo 2003 “Written in Stone” exhibition clearly stated. Exhibiting net art has always been all about commitment, because it is simply not possible to avoid interpretation if you want to show this art in a way that engages the audience in an exhibition space beyond the click of a mouse. But what happens if the action of exhibiting net.art, becomes an artwork in itself and the display area is the public space?
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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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Newstweek, mutant news
In a crowded restaurant a small plastic box attached to a power outlet goes unnoticed. It could be a transformer or a charger. The box conceals, in fact, a small computer capable of mapping the traffic of the wireless network environment. The mini-device accesses the intercepted network by creating an SSH tunnel. Using a simple "search and replace" process, the online content viewed by users
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