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Infrastructure Aesthetics

Edited by Solveig Daugaard, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and Frederik Tygstrup

"An upsurge in artworks negotiating the conditions of their own production, distribution, and reception has called attention to the infrastructural relations that shape the art world but have long been understudied. In response, this book introduces the concept of infrastructure aesthetics into the study of culture.

The concept is drawn from infrastructure studies, media theory, and aesthetic theory. This volume develops it further, addressing:

the analytical challenge of working with works that blur the boundaries between art and infrastructure, both historically and in the present,

the aesthetic problem of assessing artistic forms that operate on an infrastructural level, and

the politics of artistic agency on a social level, beyond the work's content or message.

As the relation between artworks and their institutional and social settings becomes infrastructural in nature, we need to move beyond the reductive division of the study of artworks into production, articulation, and reception. This book provides its readers with an innovative conceptual toolbox designed for precisely this task, as well as a forceful set of exemplary case studies applying the concepts in theory and practice."

Contributors: Tanya Ravn Ag, Emma Sofie Brogaard, Mathias Danbolt, Solveig Daugaard, Line Ellegaard, Kristoffer Gansing, Anna Meera Gaonkar, Rasmus Holmboe, Daniel Irrgang, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Eva la Cour, Joana Monbaron, Mathias Overgaard, Xenia Brown Pallesen, Kristine Ringsager, Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, Frida Sandström, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Amalie Skovmøller, Frederik Tygstrup, Katrine Wallevik.

 Publisher De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 4 November 2024
 ISBN 9783111349961
 Creative Commons NY-NC-ND 4.0 International License
 vii+418 pages
 PDF (61mb), PDFs
 EPUB (4mb)
 HTML

Publisher.

2024-11-25

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Radio as Radical Education

Edited by Gregoire Rousseau and Nora Sternfeld

"Welcome dear listeners and readers. Today, we’re presenting the book Radio as Radical Education. It brings together the voices and ideas of people who have worked on, with and in radio while understanding their radio projects as education projects or understanding radio as radical education."

With contributions by Alessandra Pomarico, Anja Steidinger, Damien Pollard, Eddie Choo Wen Yi, Giulia Crisci, Gregoire Rousseau, Julia Stolba, Minerva Juolahti, Nikolay Oleynikov, Nora Sternfeld, Özge Açıkkol, Seda Yıldız

Design and Concept: Maja Redlin

Coordination: Malin Kuht

Proofreading: Faith Gibson

Translation: Anthony DePasquale

 A collaboration between HFBK Hamburg and Station of Commons
 Published by Station of Commons, Helsinki, October 2024
 ISBN ePDF 9781350030237
 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License CC-BY-SA
 108 pages
 PDF (2mb)

Project, via. Book launch.

2024-10-09

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Zamotka

compiled by Freefilmers

"Zamotka is a kind of wrap made by spreading hummus on lavash flatbread and adding toppings of your liking, which was popularised by Mariupol’s underground creative scene in 2017–2018.

It is also the name given to a self-published zine that explores grassroots food practices, communal dining, food related trauma caused by the war and its social and personal dimensions in the context of Mariupol’s devastation. To honour this legendary wrap and personal memories of the city, Freefilmers have compiled a series of visual and textual contributions in Zamotka."

 Nychka Lishchynska: literary editing of the zine, text project coordination, interviews.
 Sashko Protiah: coordination, project management.
 Natasha Tseliuba: art and photo project coordination, design, zine layout.
 Concept and implementation: Freefilmers
 Published January 2024

2024-07-22

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Rikimbili: une étude sur la désobéissance technologique et quelques formes de réinvention

by Ernesto Oroza

"Quand nous acceptons le critère bourgeois qui sanctionne la nécessité comme indigne et celui qui exprime ses besoins comme faible et vulgaire, nous participons à la réduction systématique de la créativité et de la liberté qui pourrait se traduire dans la culture contemporaine." (Ernesto Oroza)

“PLOUGHSHARES AS TECHNOLOGICAL DISOBEDIENCE (CUBA)
Cite du design is a broad church. Whilst hordes of courtiers flocked around the Minister like starlings at sunset, copies of a subversive new book, by Ernesto Oroza, were being distributed by Cite’s publications team. Rikimbili – “a study of technological disobedience and other forms of re-invention” – describes how Cubans have adapted and recycled industrial objects during fifty years of US sanctions. The book’s title, Rikimbili, is named after a two-wheeled vehicle that started its life as a bicycle. The book is subversive because, for me anyway, it describes the kind of design we’ll be doing in the coming age of scarcity industrialism (a phrase of John Michael Greer). Design shows filled with shiny objects, by contrast, are best perceived as historical events about a pardigm that has passed. Write direct to obtain your copy of Rikimbili to: emilie.chabert at citedudesign dot com.” (John Thackara)

 Publisher Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, 2009
 Translated by Nicole Marchand-Zanartu
 French
 ISBN 978-2-86272-527-7
 67 pages
 PDF (8mb)

Video interview (8 min, 2013). Research blog (est. 2016). Author. Publisher.

See also

Ernesto Oroza, "Subvertir la panne. De la réparation à la prophylaxie", Techniques & culture 72: "En cas de panne", 2019, pp 108-125. (French)
Pénélope de Bozzi, Ernesto Oroza, Objets réinventés: la création populaire à Cuba, Paris: Alternatives, 2002, 125 pp. Author. Publisher. (French)

2024-07-17

File:Archiving Activism in the Digital Age 2024.pdf

Archiving Activism in the Digital Age

Edited by Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney

"The archiving of social movements has long contributed to their cultural impact. Given the wide availability of digital tools for the making and storing of records, ‘autonomous’ archiving is today becoming a significant part of the activist toolkit itself. In parallel, professional archiving has undergone significant change, leading to more participatory and community-based practices that belie the idea of ‘the Archive’ as an institution merely serving the interests of the state.

This collection brings together academics, archivists, and activists to explore some of the many new sites where activist archives are being produced at the present time. With case studies ranging between Turkey, Afghanistan, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, and the US, it offers new insights into the opportunities and challenges posed by digitization as well as into the tensions between autonomy and long-term sustainability. It shows above all the potential of archives to become sites of renewed critical engagement."

Contributors: Michelle Caswell, Özge Çelikaslan, Rosemary Grennan, Flore Janssen, Kera Lovell, Eline Pollaert, Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen, Paul van Trigt, Daniel Villar-Onrubia.

 Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, May 2024
 INC Theory on Demand #52
 ISBN 9789083328287
 Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
 153 pages
 PDF (9mb), EPUB (9mb)

Publisher.

2024-05-17

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