Juan A. Gaitán (ed.): The End of Money (2011)

This publication accompanies the exhibition The End of Money held at Witte de With center on 22 May – 7 August 2011.

The publication includes texts by Dessislava Dimova, Donatien Grau, Dieter Roelstraete and Carolina Sanín, each contributing to the exhibition’s theme from the point of view of their own medium – be this fiction, art history, philosophy or criticism. Documentation of the exhibition is also included as well as material relating to the works of the participating in the exhibition.

Contributors: Dessislava Dimova, Donatien Grau, Hadley+Maxwell, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Dieter Roelstraete, Carolina Sanín, and Tonel.

Publisher Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-90-73362-98-7, 978-90-73362-00-0
146 pages

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Jiří Valoch (ed.): Computer Graphics, catalogue (1968) [Czech]

“In 1968, during the time of the Prague Spring, and still before Cybernetic Serendipity opened in London on August 2, 1968, and before Tendencies 4: Computers and Visual Research started in Zagreb on August 3, 1968, Jiří Valoch, a Czech concrete poet, organized in Czechoslovakia an exhibition of digital art. It was shown in February 1968 in Brno (at Dům umění města Brna, House of Arts), in March 1968 in Jihlava (Oblastní Galerie Vysočiny), and in April 1968 in Gottwaldov (now Zlín) (Oblastní galerie výtvarného umění). The show had a title Computer Graphics and presented works by Charles Csuri, Leslei Mezei, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, A. Michael Noll, and Lubomír Sochor. Frieder Nake gave a lecture at the Brno opening. This show was, most likely, the first digital art exhibition in Eastern Europe.” (source)

The catalogue includes six reproductions of the works (Nake, Nees, Sochor), texts Programované umění (Valoch, 1967), Projekty generativní estetiky (Max Bense, 1965, excerpt), Poznámky pro Jiřího Valocha (Nake, 1967), O realizaci mých grafik (Sochor, 1967), and short biographies of exhibiting artists.

Publisher Dům umění města Brna, Brno, 1968
16 pages

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Sher Doruff, Nancy Mauro-Flude (eds.): Connected: LiveArt (2005)

“The Connected! Programme spanned a two year period from January 2003 to January 2005. It officially concluded with a celebratory Birthday party for Art in the Theatrum Anatomicum of Waag Society, the local ‘home’-base of many Connected! projects. Although most of the people present at that event agreed with Federico Bonelli’s assessment “that art could have committed suicide in 1984″ – the research and the show goes on.

The Connected! Programme had four nested components: Projects, Artists-in-Residence, Sentient Creatures Lecture Series and Anatomic. This book documents many of the activities in these domains; the lectures, the events, the workshops, the performances, the installations, the discourse. Yet, it’s interesting to note that pulling together material for this publication was a bit like trying to capture the wind. Much of the work produced in this two-year period emphasized the real-time process of the making. Documentation of that often fragile, unstable and always already ephemeral process is sketchy at best and marginal to the actualization of the event itself. For many of these artists, documentation is a secondary concern, an afterthought. For others, documenting is an integral process indistinguishable from the event itself.

There are myriad photos in this catalogue of artists behind their laptops. Myriad photos that say little about the levels and layers of codified communication emitted from those unseen screens. These casual, unpretentious shots are images of social networks in progress – the translocal – a feedback loop of the local effecting the global affecting the local affecting the global. Not only does the artwork produced, or better transduced, scramble representational meaning but so too does the process of making. Performance practice that addresses the indeterminate dance-on-the-edge-of-chaos in compositional processes is a felt thing, an experience that doesn’t always translate well in laptop snapshots.”

Co-writers: Federico Bonelli, Beth Coleman, Josephine Dorado, Lucas Evers, Wander Eikelboom, Howard Goldkrand, Jan-Kees van Kampen, Arjen Keesmaat, Jeff Mann, Mark Meadows, Hellen Sky, Michelle Teran, Ananya Vajpeyi

Publisher Waag Society, Amsterdam, September 2005
Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 Netherlands License
160 pages

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