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.
• Launch of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, 7 Feb 2018.

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

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

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)
• Alessandro Ludovico, Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894, Rotterdam: Creating 010, Hogeschool Rotterdam, and Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2012, 192 pp.
  • Post-Digital Print. La mutazione dell’editoria dal 1894, Altamura: CaratteriMobili, 2014, 249 pp. [3] (Italian)
  • Post-Digital Print: la mutation de l'édition depuis 1894, Paris: B42, 2016. [4] (French)
• Khaldoun Zreik, Robin Gareus (eds.), PostDigital Art: Proceedings of the 3rd Computer Art Congress, Paris: Europia, 2012, 168 pp. [5] [6]
• Angela Geary, Paul Catanese, Post-Digital Printmaking: CNC, Traditional and Hybrid Techniques, New York: Bloomsbury, 2012, 160 pp. [7]
• 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. [8]
• David M. Berry, Michael Dieter (eds.) Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 320 pp. [9]
• Danny Aldred, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé (eds.), Code—X – Paper, Ink, Pixel and Screen, forew. Alessandro Ludovico, endnotes John Warwicker, Farnham: bookRoom press, 2015, 276 pp. [10] [11]
• Scott Contreras-Koterbay, Łukasz Mirocha, The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016, 280 pp.
• Ryan Bishop, Kristoffer Gansing, Jussi Parikka, Elvia Wilk (eds.), across & beyond: A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions, Berlin: Sternberg & Transmediale, 2017, 348 pp. Introduction. [12], [13]. 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)

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. [14]
  • An interview with Florian Cramer, pp 38–42.
• A Peer-Reviewed Journal About "Post-Digital Research" 3:1, Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University, with Berlin: reSource transmedial culture Berlin/transmediale, 2014. [15]
• Post-Digital Culture, eds. Daniel Kulle, Cornelia Lund, Oliver Schmidt and David Ziegenhagen, 2015ff.
• Kunstforum 242: "Postdigital 1. Allgegenwart und Unsichtbarkeit eines Phänomens", 2016. [16] (German)
• Kunstforum 243: "Postdigital 2. Erscheinungsformen und Ausbreitung eines Phänomens", 2016. [17] (German)

Book chapters, Papers, Articles, Talks, Blog posts

• Cascone, Kim (December 2000). "The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music". Computer Music Journal 24 (4): 12–18.
• Andrews, Ian (2002). Post-digital Aesthetics and the return to Modernism. MAP-uts lecture. [18]
• Shapley, Greg (April 2011). "After the artefact: Post-digital photography in our post-media era". Journal of Visual Art Practice 10 (1): 5-20. [19]
• Cramer, Florian (2011). "Net.art back to square one". Nettitudes: Let's Talk Net Art. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers. pp. 9–14.
• Cramer, Florian (December 2012). "Post-Digital Writing". Electronic Book Review. Originally given as the keynote lecture at the Electronic Literature Organization conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 22 June 2012.
• Rasmus Fleischer, "How Music Takes Place: Excerpts From “The Post-digital Manifesto”", e-flux 42 (Feb 2013).
• Cramer, Florian (1 May 2013). "Post-Digital Aesthetics". Jeu de Paume.
• Berry, David M. (October 2013). "Post-Digital Humanities". stunlaw (blog).
• 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. [20]
• Cramer, Florian (2014). "What is 'Post-digital'?". A Peer-Reviewed Journal About "Post-Digital Research" 3:1, Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, with Berlin: transmediale.
• Andersen, Christian Ulrik; Pold, Søren (10 January 2014). "Manifesto for a Post-Digital Interface Criticism". The New Everyday.
• Fleischer, Rasmus (2015). "Towards a Postdigital Sensibility: How to get Moved by too Much Music". Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research 7: 255–269.
• Paul, Christiane (2015). "From Immateriality to Neomateriality: Art and the Conditions of Digital Materiality". ISEA 2015: Proceedings.
• Alvaro, Sandra (2015). "Disruptive Strategies in the Post-Digital City". ISEA 2015: Proceedings.
• Cramer, Florian (2015), "Talking Past Each Other. On the word combinatorics of “post”, “media”, “digital” and “Internet”", 25 Mar 2015. Talk.
• Ludovico, Alessandro (2015). "Le reti come agenti nello scontro tra stampa post-digitale personale e industriale". Progetto grafico 28. Milan. (Italian)
  • "Networks as Agents in the Clash Between Personal and Industrial Post-Digital Print". Progetto grafico 28. Milan.
• Cramer, Florian (2016), "Post-Digital Literary Studies". Materialities of Literature 4(1).
• Cramer, Florian (2016), "Nach dem Koitus oder nach dem Tod? Zur Begriffsverwirrung von „postdigital“, „Post-Internet“ und „Post-Media“", Kunstforum 242. (German)
• Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2019), Performing The Internet: Post Digital Folklore, "Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific Hongkong:IGI-global.
• Hugo Paquete, "Pareidolia: Glitch-Evento, Metodologia e Espectro", in "interact: Revista Online de Arte, Cultura e Tecnologia", 2015. [21] and [22] (Portuguese)

Theses

• Shapley, Gregory James (2012). Sound of Failure: Experimental electronic music in our post-digital era. Sydney: University of Technology. pp. 212. [23]
• Alvaro, Sandra (2016). PostDigital City. Aesthetics and Politics in the Space of Embodied Virtuality. Barcelona: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. pp. 268.

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.

See also

Film labs, Cassette culture, Zine culture, Postmedia.