The Mag.net Reader: Experiences in Electronic Cultural Publishing (2006)

“The story of Mag.net is the story of a networking effort by several European print magazines dealing with electronic culture. While this effort produced only mixed results and had to struggle hard for its successes, it was throughout characterised by a spirit of cooperation that had many positive effects and fostered lasting friendships among the participants.” (from the Introduction)

Contributions by Alessandro Ludovico, Slávo Krekovič, Mute, Miren Eraso, Nicolas Malevé, Monica Narula, Awadhendra Sharan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Christiane Fricke, Krystian Woznicki, Christian Höller, Joost Smiers & Marieke Van Schijndel.

Edited by Miren Eraso, Alexandro Ludovico, Slávo Krekovič
With introduction by Andreas Broeckmann
Publisher: Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
Creative Commons license. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
ISBN 8479075082
122 pages

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Nick Kaye: Multi-media: Video, Installation, Performance (2007)

“Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the worlds foremost artists. Nick Kaye explores the interdisciplinary history and character of experimental practices shaped in exchanges between music, installation, theatre, performance art, conceptual art, sculpture and video.

The book sets out key themes and concerns in multi-media practice, addressing time, space, the resurgence of ephemerality, liveness and aura. These chapters are interspersed with documentary artwork and essays by artists whose work continues to shape the field, including new articles from Vito Acconci, The Builders Association, John Jesurun, Pipilotti Rist, and Fiona Templeton.

Multi-Media also reintroduces a major documentary essay by Paolo Rosa of Studio Azzurro in a new, fully illustrated form. This book combinessophisticated scholarly analysis and fascinating original work to present a refreshing and creative investigation of current multi-media arts practice.”

Publisher Routledge, 2007
ISBN 0415283817, 9780415283816
249 pages

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Victoria Vesna (ed.): Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (2007)

Discovering the role of data in creating a new way of experiencing—and making—art.

Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. Here, the ways information is ordered and organized become artistic choices, and artists have an essential role in influencing and critiquing the digitization of daily life.

“Victoria Vesna’s edited anthology Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow provides a compelling collection of 16 essays that engage the shifting aesthetics of computational and interactive art forms. Database Aesthetics supplies the reader with an absorbing and diverse cross-section of stylistic, analytical and theoretical examinations of the meaning of the database to interactive (and, in some cases, traditional) media. Furthermore, it showcases several practical instances of artworks configured using databases and provides the reader with valuable insights from the artists into the design, implementation and execution of these projects. It offers a number of intellectually robust, rewarding and thought-provoking approaches for those already immersed in digital culture and its critical discourses. This book serves as a timely and valuable resource for both the classroom and beyond.” —Discourse

Contributors: Sharon Daniel, Steve Deitz, Lynn Hershman Leeson, George Legrady, Eduardo Kac, Norman Klein, John Klima, Lev Manovich, Robert F. Nideffer, Nancy Paterson, Christiane Paul, Marko Peljhan, Warren Sack, Bill Seaman, Grahame Weinbren.

Published by University Of Minnesota Press, 2007
ISBN 0816641196, 9780816641192
336 pages

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