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book . sound art
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) |
art . media . net . visual
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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art . festival . media
Open Your City - Share Festival 2012 Report
 Check the Open Your City - Share Festival 2012 Report photo set here.
Reappropriation of urban space, visions about the city of the future and grassroots participation. These main themes of Share Festival 2012 were given expression in the edition’s title - Open Your City - an imperative formula suggestive of sharing spaces and services and stressing the need for active involvement in the process of technological and social transition. This year’s Share prize included six finalists connected
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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) |
art . media . net
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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magazine . media
Raffael Dörig - COMPILER 04
Replay Compiler / Tweaklab [booklet + DVD], ISBN 978-3952285930, 2012, EnglishThe fourth volume of Compiler is dedicated to the multiplicity of reuse practices in audiovisual artworks produced with digital tools, interfaces and paradigms. The development of this attitude was once the preserve of artists, though in the second half of the 00s social media and the phenomenon ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
performance . robot . sound art
Pendulum Choir - Complex Polyphonies And Gravitational Force
Cod.Act's Pendulum Choir explores the relationship between gravity, vocal movement in space and choral composition by placing a 9-piece choir on tilting, continuously moving platforms. A revolving, undulating hydraulic jack supports each singer. These movements have a direct physical impact on the singers, causing
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book . media
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) |
art . performance . science
Algae Opera - Nurturing Algae With Soprano's Voice
Algae Opera is a work realized between Mezzo-Soprano Louise Ashcroft, composer Gameshow Outpatient and actor Samuel Lewis that uses a novel approach to cross-wire the sense of hearing and taste using algae. During a performance of this work CO2 gas which is extracted from the singers breath
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book . floppy disk . magazine
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) |
art . biotech . performance
The Decelerator - Real Slow Motion
"The decelerator" designed by German artist Lorenz Potthast is a helmet made with reflective metal, aiming to provide total detachment from reality. The helmet does not generate a virtual or augmented reality, but instead changes the temporal perception of what is happening outside: it gives the user a "slow motion"
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art . book . dvd . performance . video
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) |
art . hacking . media
Tworse Key - A Twitter Telegraph
In recent decades, and perhaps nudged by the exponential growth of new technologies, media artists have demonstrated not only an increasing interest in the history of technology, but also with the non-synchronous merging of incongruous technologies in their artworks. Vintage futurism and
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book . hacktivism
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) |
art . media . performance . psychogeography
Blind Smell Stick - Emotional Urban Nose
Exploring the urban space with the nose: the work "Blind Smell Stick" by Peter de Cupere invites us to rediscover the familiar spaces in which we live. The object created looks like an ordinary walking stick but functions like the nose of a guide dog for the blind. The lower part of the stick is able to pick up odours through
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book . media . net
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) |
art . privacy
Directory Of Fictitious Telephone Numbers - Impossible Transmissions
An aseptic space. One white table and on it a printed directory, accompanied by an apparently normal looking telephone. It would seem the right environment to make a call. And calls are, in fact, made. The phone operates automatically, dialling random numbers from the many listed in the phone book
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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) |
art . hacking . media
deFacebook - Glitched Portraits
The work "deFacebook" by Indian artist Nandan Ghiya consists of a series of portraits made from images taken from popular social networks and physically printed on canvas. The selected photos are classic half-length or full-figured portraits, (partially) set up according to the classical canons of the family portrait. The wooden or
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dvd . sound art . visual
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - The Keystone Cut Ups
 DVD - Illegal ArtVicky Bennett (People Like Us) has become well known for her audio/visual collages that draw from old movie archives. The Keystone Cut Ups is the brilliant outcome of a collaboration with Ergo Phizmiz, a "collagist" whose style matches Bennett's perfectly. The two have already composed two albums ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . biotech
Cipher - A Macro Wiev Of Micro
Bacteria, beings measuring just a thousandth of a millimetre across, are the most widespread organisms on Earth. They are everywhere and can survive in extreme conditions. They mutate, adapt and seem able to communicate to collectively carry out actions that are not possible for a single bacterium acting alone
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CD . book . psychogeography . sound art
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) |
art . robot . science
Earthcode - Rooted Computing
The cognitive neuroscientist Michael A. Persinger formulated a hypothesis that the link between human beings and the earth is so strong that a new geomagnetic field around the Earth could directly influence human conscience. On the basis of this theory, Martin Howse, mentor of the platform micro_research
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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) |
art . sound
Five Introverted Machines - Disturbing Tape Head Orchestra
Stephen Cornford dedicates his experimental artistic work to the production of sounds through the employment of various manipulated objects and techniques. In his recent installation known as Five Introverted Machines, five identical first-generation Philips cassette players are set up on a white wall
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art . book . science
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) |
art . media
Amazon Random Shopper - Randomizing Compulsory Online Buying
With Amazon Random Shopper, Darius Kazemi applies the concept of random generation, already proposed in previous projects, to the process of online buying. After selecting a keyword from Wordnick API, a bot inserts it into the Amazon search engine and buys the first product in the list of the categories books, CDs and DVDs
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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) |
art . music
MR-808: Mechatronic 80s Drum Machine
The Roland TR-808 drum machine is an icon of electronic pop music that has spawned countless software emulators. Tired of making music in the physically constrained but potentially limitless environment of his computer, Moritz Simon Geist has created the MR-808, a physical version
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dvd . music . performance
Anaïs Prosaic - Eliane Radigue
 DVD - La Huit / Potemkine - 2012, French, EnglishVirtuoso Listening is a film which turns out to be a homage to one of the female pioneers of electronic music: Eliane Radigue. Former wife of famous contemporary artist Arman, after their split she started composing avant-garde music (1967). In those early days she met minimalists like Terry Riley ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art
Hermes: Robotic Mobile Phone Romance
“Hello! Hello! Can You Hear me?” is a leitmotif that constantly re-emerges in mobile phone conversations. Such phrases are often associated with rising volume levels in the speaker’s voice and sometimes represent a source of disturbance for nearby listeners extraneous to the exchange
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sound art
Yuri Suzuki - The Sound Of The Earth
Yuri Suzuki’s designs for unconventional players provide combinations of objects that re-mix not only the content of records but the reproduction media as well. One of his latest pieces presents us with a mix between a record player and a world globe. The Sound of the Earth
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art . biotech . performance . science
I Am A Camera - Very Intimate Pictures
Luke Evans and Josh Lake have created intriguing process-based photographs by turning their bodies into "cameras." Both ingested 35mm photographic film slides and allowed their natural bodily functions to do the rest of the work as the film travelled through their digestive systems. After expelling the film in a dark room it was fixed using standard photographic techniques
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book . hacktivism . media . software
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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activism . art . media . net
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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art . book . dvd . media
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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art . generative . video
Optical De-Dramatization Engine [O.D.E.] - Modulating Frames
Barbara Lattanzi's research engages with writing software that manipulates the sequence of time in movies, with aesthetically and structurally destabilizing results. Her Optical De-dramatization Engine (O.D.E. ) is a program "modulating" frames independently and dynamically from each minute of a movie. The artist works with early 20th-century silent films and the software starts in an "algorithmically-determined point
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book . copyright . literature . music
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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art . media . net
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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book . science . software
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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art . media . privacy
Pixelhead - Digital Mimesis
Pixelhead is a simple balaclava made with an elastic fabric very similar to swimsuit material. Its aesthetic appearance, however, is quite specific: the decorative pattern chosen by Martin Backes is indeed "pixelated" and the colour palette is similar to those that a face or a head shot would have if photographed by a digital camera
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CD . book . sound
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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art . interactive . sound art
Voice Array - Temporary Archive Of Visible Voices
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has been developing a certain attitude through his artworks, which feature space ordered matrixes and arrays of machine-controlled materials whose reactive movements unequivocally manifest an autonomous intelligence hidden somewhere
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book . media . science
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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I Love The Internet & The Internet Loves Me - The Power Of Text
Jamie Allen has used a classic strategy to connect two very different dimensions, the very intimate and the very public, maintaining their respective integrity in a very specific medium. His work "I Love the Internet and the Internet Loves Me", features a digital town crier, in the form of a column with a connected computer and a megaphone on top
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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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Little Bird - A Birdie Told Me A Secret
With the exponential growth information online, corporations and governments have stepped up efforts to control, regulate and track this information. Those who, conversely, have always supported the freedom of speech have continued to work, helping the Internet remain the powerful tool that we know today. The international organization Wikileaks has become
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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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Microsonic Landspaces - Song As 3D Sculptures
Moving beyond ubiquitous 2D visualizations of sound, Juan Manuel de J. Escalante (Realität) proposes a series of 3D sculptures that explore a new direction in the visual representation of music. "Microsonic Landspaces" is a series of 5 futuristic artifacts created with the data visualization software Processing
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neural
Neural 43, Networked Tangibility
The new Neural issue is hot from the press.Subscribe now!. You can also subscribe to the magazine Digital Edition accessing all issues since #29. Or you can buy the magazine from the closest of the almost 200 stores stocking it. A back issues pack is available. ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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art
I Wish I Said Hello - Street Art And A Second Chance For Love
Urban centres, parks, fashion clubs, bus stops. Humans are social animals. They meet up anywhere and check each other out continuously. Sometimes, however, these meetings don’t end up the way they were intended and are left incomplete. The street art project "I wish I said hello" started in May 2012 by Lisa Park and Andria Navarro
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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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art . media
Noisolation, low-tech augmented listening apparel
Since embedded audio processing gained attention during the years preceding the introduction of smartphones, a number of projects have been developed that employ computational means to establish new relationships between mobile audio devices and the acoustic environment
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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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art . videogame . visual
Harun Farocki Interview - Serious Games In Samos
It’s certainly not often that one gets to visit thought-provoking exhibitions while on summer vacation. But this year at Samos, the closest Greek island to the coast of Turkey, an exhibition by one of the most well-reputed film and video makers of our times took place. Harun Farocki, who lives and
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Oh Bright Coins, keeping Capitalism current
Jonathon Keats, Managing Director of The Electrochemical Currency Exchange Company, has worked his way easily into regular ‘Wired’ coverage, the foyer of the Rockefeller Building in New York and most recently the murky depths of Far East currency exchange. His latest thought-experiment goes well beyond thinking and into the dark heart of banking. His data
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activism . art . media . net . psychogeography . surveillance . visual
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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copyright . music . performance
Compro Auri, the time value of listening
 The debate over the value of intellectual property has been conducted along more or less similar lines since digital file sharing came to the fore in the late 90s. While the industry attempts to equate immaterial products with traditional goods, activists and disobedient consumers struggle to maintain free access to information. A project by Brazilian artist Giuliano Obici proposes a refreshing and radical
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book . net
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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book . music
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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art . book . software
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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dvd . music . software . sound art
Oval / OvalDNA
Shitkatapult,
CD+DVD
, Strike134, 2011
It took a decade to Markus Popp/Oval to return and release another album ("O") which radically changed its approach towards more classical sounds (with drums, guitar and a cheap computer using only pre-installed sounds and plug-ins). But, collecting together huge quantities of material from times past, now comes the magnum opus "OvalDNA". And it was worth waiting for – sporting, as it does, a twenty-five
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. PAGES: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 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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Virtual Light (1995)
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Wicked Style
nordiC (Dissonanze)
Virtual Light (1995)
Internet Underground Guide (1995) Suoni Futuri Digitali (2000)
Tecnologie di Liberazione (2001)
Resistant Maps (2006)
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assistant editor:
Aurelio Cianciotta Mendizza
contributors:
Josephine Bosma
Ylenia Cafaro
Vito Campanelli
Valentina Culatti
Michael Dieter
Daphne Dragona
Matteo Marangoni
Rachel O' Dwyer
Paolo Pedercini
Paul Prudence
Benedetta Sabatini
production and promotion:
Chiara Ciociola
infrastructure design
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Paolo Cirio
translations:
Roberto Orsini
Giuseppe Santoiemma
technical consulting:
Paolo Mangraviti
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