Post-digital aesthetics

Events

• Postdigitale Welten: Formatierung sozialer Räume seminar at HfG Karlsruhe, 2011/12. Facilitated by Marco Zampella und Ulrich Gehmann.
• Post-Digital Aesthetics, a panel at the ISEA conference, Sydney, 11 May 2013. With Florian Cramer, Alessandro Ludovico and Ian Andrews.
• post-digital-research, Kunsthal Aarhus, 7-9 Oct 2013. Organised by Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox, Tatiana Bazzichelli and Kristoffer Gansing.
• Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital, exhibition, MAD: Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 16 Oct 2013-1 Jun 2014. Curated by Ron Labaco. Review: Rogers (Leonardo).
• Post Digital Cultures, symposiums held at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Aula du Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, 6-7 Dec 2013 & 5-6 Dec 2014 & 4-5 Dec 2015. Direction: Patrick de Rham. Curators: Elise Lammer and Federica Martini.
• Afterglow conference, Transmediale, Berlin, 30 Jan-2 Feb 2014.
• Post-digital: critical responses, discussion, 11 June 2014, University of Sussex.
• The Post-Digital Scholar Conference: Publishing between Open Access, Piracy and Public Spheres, Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, 12-14 Nov 2014. [1], Videos.
• Pós-digital (media, artes, design), University of Lisbon, 20 Mar 2015.
• Post-Digital Institutions and Practices panel discussion, ICA, London, 7 Dec 2016.
• p0es1s – postdigital exhibition, Kunsttempel, Kassel, 14 Sep-15 Oct 2017. Curated by Friedrich W. Block. Selections from Post-Digital Publishing Archive. Documentation.
• Artificial imagination / Artificielle postdigital, a research seminar on contemporary art and artificial intelligence, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. Founded in 2017 by Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel and Grégory Chatonsky. Twitter.
• Launch of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, 7 Feb 2018.
• Vvitchvvave: Post-Digital Aesthetics symposium and exhibition, RMIT university Melbourne, Australia, 8 Dec 2018. Curated by Nancy Mauro-Flude and Thomas Penney.

Centres

• Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, est. 2018. Dir. Gary Hall.

Alessandro Ludovico, Post-Digital Print, 2012, Log, PDF.

A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Post-Digital Research, 2014, Log.

Martin Conrads, Franziska Morlok (eds.), War postdigital besser?, 2014, Log, PDF.

Publications

Books

• Robert Pepperell, Michael Punt, The Postdigital Membrane: Imagination, Technology and Desire, Bristol and Portland, OR: Intellect Books, 2000, 181 pp. [2]

• Maurizio Bolognini, Postdigitale. Conversazioni sull'arte e le nuove tecnologie, Rome: Carocci, 2008, 120 pp. Excerpts. (Italian),(English)

• Mel Alexenberg, The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness, 2nd ed., Bristol: Intellect, 2011, 270 pp.

• Alessandro Ludovico, Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894, Rotterdam: Creating 010, Hogeschool Rotterdam, and Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2012, 192 pp; 2nd ed., 2013; 3rd ed., 2018.
  • translations

• Khaldoun Zreik, Robin Gareus (eds.), PostDigital Art: Proceedings of the 3rd Computer Art Congress, Paris: Europia, 2012, 168 pp. [3] [4]

• Angela Geary, Paul Catanese, Post-Digital Printmaking: CNC, Traditional and Hybrid Techniques, New York: Bloomsbury, 2012, 160 pp. [5]
• Martin Conrads, Franziska Morlok (eds.), War postdigital besser?, Berlin: Revolver Books, 2014, 144 pp. (German)/(English)
• Jonathan Openshaw, Postdigital Artisans: Craftsmanship with a New Aesthetic in Fashion, Art, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam: Frame Publishers, 2015, 296 pp. [6]
• David M. Berry, Michael Dieter (eds.) Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 320 pp. Introduction. Publisher. [7]
• Danny Aldred, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé (eds.), Code—X – Paper, Ink, Pixel and Screen, forew. Alessandro Ludovico, endnotes John Warwicker, Farnham: bookRoom press, 2015, 276 pp. [8] [9]
• Scott Contreras-Koterbay, Łukasz Mirocha, The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016, 280 pp.
• Michael Betancourt, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics, Routledge, 2016.

• Ryan Bishop, Kristoffer Gansing, Jussi Parikka, Elvia Wilk (eds.), across & beyond: A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions, Berlin: Sternberg Press, and transmediale e.V., 2017, 348 pp. Introduction. Publisher. Publisher. Reviews: Galati (Leonardo), Keating (Furtherfield), Fan (TCS).

• Mario Hibert, Digitalni odrast i postdigitalna dobra. Kritičko bibliotekarstvo, disruptivni mediji i taktičko obrazovanje, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute & Institut za političku ekologiju, 2018, 152 pp. (Croatian)

• Michael Kargl, Franz Thalmair (eds.), originalcopy: Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, 375 pp. Research project. Publisher. [10]

• Demian Conrad, Rob van Leijsen, David Héritier (eds.), Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age: A Survey of Practices Fuelled by Creative Coding, Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2021, 608 pp. Publisher.

• Andrew Dewdney, Katrina Sluis (eds.), The Networked Image in Post-Digital Culture, Routledge, 2022, 248 pp. Publisher.

• Mara-Johanna Kölmel, Ursula Ströbele (eds.), The Sculptural in the (Post-)Digital Age, De Gruyter, 2023, 242 pp.

• Andreas Bülhoff, Annette Gilbert (eds.), Library of Artistic Print on Demand: Post-Digital Publishing in Times of Platform Capitalism, Leipzig: Spector Books, forthcoming Feb 2026, 600 pp. Snelson's essay. [11]

Journal issues and special sections

• Enculturation 3(1): "Post-Digital Studies", eds. David Rieder and Matthew Levy, 2000.
• Neural 44: "Post-Digital Print (postscript)", ed. Alessandro Ludovico, 2013. [12]
  • An interview with Florian Cramer, pp 38–42.
• A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 3(1): "Post-Digital Research", Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University, with Berlin: reSource transmedial culture Berlin/transmediale, 2014. [13]
• Post-Digital Culture, eds. Daniel Kulle, Cornelia Lund, Oliver Schmidt and David Ziegenhagen, 2015ff.
• Kunstforum 242: "Postdigital 1. Allgegenwart und Unsichtbarkeit eines Phänomens", Sep-Oct 2016. TOC. [14] (German)
• Kunstforum 243: "Postdigital 2. Erscheinungsformen und Ausbreitung eines Phänomens", ed. Franz Thalmair, 2016. [15] (German)

Book chapters, papers, articles, talks, discussions, blog posts

• Kim Cascone, "The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music", Computer Music Journal 24:4, MIT Press, Winter 2000, pp 12-18, HTML. DOI.

• Ian Andrews, "Post-digital Aesthetics and the return to Modernism", MAP-uts lecture, 2002. [16]
• Greg Shapley, "After the artefact: Post-digital photography in our post-media era", Journal of Visual Art Practice 10:1, Apr 2011, pp 5-20.
• Florian Cramer, "Net.art back to square one", in Josephine Bosma, Nettitudes: Let's Talk Net Art, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2011, pp 9-14.
• Florian Cramer, "Post-Digital Writing", Electronic Book Review, 12 Dec 2012. Originally given as the keynote lecture at the Electronic Literature Organization conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 22 Jun 2012. (English)
  • "Postdigitales Schreiben", in Code und Koncept. Literatur und das Digitale, ed. Hannes Bajohr, Berlin: Frohmann, 2016, pp 27-43. [17] (German)
• Rasmus Fleischer, "How Music Takes Place: Excerpts From “The Post-digital Manifesto”", e-flux 42 (Feb 2013).
• Florian Cramer, "Post-Digital Aesthetics", Jeu de Paume, 1 May 2013.
• David M. Berry, "Post-Digital Humanities", stunlaw (blog), Oct 2013.
• Søren Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen, Jonas Fritch, "Ink after Print – Post-Digital Reading-Writing and the Materiality of Post-Digital Books". Talk at the Literature, Media, Sound conference, Aarhus University, 28 November 2013. [18]
• Florian Cramer, "What Is 'Post-Digital'?", A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 3(1): "Post-Digital Research", Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, with Berlin: transmediale, 2014; repr. in Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation And Design, eds. David M. Berry and Michael Dieter, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp 12-26. [19]
• Christian Ulrik Andersen, Søren Pold, "Manifesto for a Post-Digital Interface Criticism", The New Everyday, 10 Jan 2014.
• Rasmus Fleischer, "Towards a Postdigital Sensibility: How to get Moved by too Much Music". Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research 7, 2015, pp 255-269.
• Christiane Paul, "From Immateriality to Neomateriality: Art and the Conditions of Digital Materiality". ISEA 2015: Proceedings, 2015.
• Sandra Alvaro, "Disruptive Strategies in the Post-Digital City". ISEA 2015: Proceedings, 2015.
• Florian Cramer, "Talking Past Each Other. On the word combinatorics of “post”, “media”, “digital” and “Internet”", 25 Mar 2015. Talk.
• Alessandro Ludovico, "Le reti come agenti nello scontro tra stampa post-digitale personale e industriale". Progetto grafico 28, Milan, 2015. (Italian)
  • "Networks as Agents in the Clash Between Personal and Industrial Post-Digital Print". Progetto grafico 28, Milan, 2015.
• Hugo Paquete, "Pareidolia: Glitch-Evento, Metodologia e Espectro", interact: Revista Online de Arte, Cultura e Tecnologia, 2015. [20]. (Portuguese)
• Florian Cramer, "Post-Digital Literary Studies", Materialities of Literature 4:1, 2016.
• Florian Cramer, "Nach dem Koitus oder nach dem Tod? Zur Begriffsverwirrung von „postdigital“, „Post-Internet“ und „Post-Media“", Kunstforum 242, 2016. (German)
• Enrique Tomas, "Politics of Musical Interfaces: Ideologies and Digital Disenchantment", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Politics of the Interface, Barcelona, Spain., 2016.
• Sissel Marie Tonn, et al., "Relay Conversation The Reading Room #27 & #28 – Post-Digital Publishing", InstrumentInventors.org, 2018.
• Nancy Mauro-Flude, "Performing The Internet: Post Digital Folklore", in Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific, eds. Shun-han Rebekah Wong, Haipeng Li and Min Chou, Hongkong: IGI-global, 2019, pp 200-227. Excerpt. [21]
• Kim West, "The Problem of Organisation", Kunstkritikk', 15 May 2019. Review of the 58th Venice Biennale.
  • "Organisationens problem", Kunstkritikk, 15 May 2019. (Swedish)
• Florian Cramer, Petar Jandrić, "Postdigital: A Term That Sucks but Is Useful", Postdigital Science and Education, Mar 2021, PDF.

Theses

• Gregory James Shapley, Sound of Failure: Experimental electronic music in our post-digital era, Sydney: University of Technology, 2012, 212 pp. [22]
• Sandra Alvaro, PostDigital City. Aesthetics and Politics in the Space of Embodied Virtuality, Barcelona: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2016, 268 pp.
• Vygandas Vegas Simbelis, Humanizing Technology Through Post-Digital Art, Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology, 2018, 212 pp.

List discussions

• "Hybrid Bookwork. Experimental eBooks, Post-Digital Publishing", -empyre-, February 2014. Moderated by Michael Dieter.
• "Post-digital", Nettime, March 2014.

Resources

• Post-Digital Publishing Archive, projects and artworks at the intersection of publishing and digital technology, by Silvio Lorusso.
• Post-Digital Print, a blog by Alessandro Ludovico.
• Post-Digital Blog by Nadine Roestenburg, researcher at Institute of Network Cultures.
• Post-Digital Culture, U Hamburg
• Stones That Calculate, collection of resources about post-digital materiality compiled by Jonas Parnow and Paul Heinicker.

See also

Film labs, Cassette culture, Zine culture, Postmedia, Post-internet art, Post-internet music, Post Production, New Materialism, Post-Capitalism.