Diener & Diener (eds.): Common Pavilions (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, exhibition, history of architecture
A collection of essays and podcasts by 33 authors on the 29 national pavilions, the setting for both the Art Biennale and the Architecture Biennale in Venice.
“The essays written by architects, historians of art and architecture, artists, and philosophers, discuss the identity of the architecture and its perception in this unique public space. The authors either outline the premises and concepts that underpin the pavilions’ form to develop a loose history of ideas; discuss the ways the pavilions have been outfitted over time; or else talk about their own personal engagement with the architecture. Written in the respective national languages of the pavilions, the essays have been translated for the podcast into English and recorded by actors and presenters.”
Created for an installation for the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice 2012 by Diener & Diener Architects, Basel.
Photographs by Gabriele Basilico.
Also published as a book by Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich, 2013
ISBN 9783858817341
288 pages
SZUM: sztuka polska w rozszerzonym polu (2013–) [Polish]
Filed under magazine | Tags: · art, art criticism, contemporary art, curating, poland
A cutting-edge magazine on contemporary art from Poland, started 2013.
Founding editors: Jakub Banasiak and Adam Mazur
Publisher Fundacja Kultura Miejsca, Warsaw
PDFs:
No 1: Akademicy (2013, PDF)
No 2: Rynek (2013, PDF)
No 3: A-Z 2013 (2013, PDF)
No 4: Instytucje (2014, PDF)
No 5: Artyści (2014, PDF)
No 6: Internet (2014, PDF)
No 7: Alfabet młodych (2014, PDF)
No 8: Drugi kanon (2015, PDF)
No 9: Kuratorzy (2015, PDF)
No 10: Mapa sztuki polskiej 2015 (2015, PDF)
No 11: Konkursy artystyczne (2015-16, PDF)
No 12: Fotografia (2016, PDF)
No 13: Performans (2016, PDF)
No 14: Architektura (2016, PDF)
No 15: Rzeźba (2016, PDF)
No 16: Malarstwo (2017, PDF)
No 17: d14 Ateny (2017, PDF)
No 18: Kuratorski epicykl. documenta 14 (Kassel) (2017, added on 2019-10-1)
No 19: Abecadło (2017-2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 20: Duma i uprzedzenie (2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 21: Sztuka w Polsce 2013–2018. Pięć lat „Szumu” (2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 22: Artystów praca nie hańbi (2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 23: Rózgi i róże (2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 24: Podlegli (2019, added on 2019-10-1)
Matteo Pasquinelli (ed.): Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas (2015)
Filed under book | Tags: · algorithm, artificial intelligence, brain, cognition, computation, cybernetics, technology, thinking
“One day, it will not be arbitrary to reframe twentieth century thought and its intelligent machines as a quest for the positive definition of error, abnormality, trauma, and catastrophe—a set of concepts that need to be understood in their cognitive, technological and political composition. It may be surprising for some to find out that Foucault’s history of biopower and technologies of the self share common roots with cybernetics and its early error friendly universal machines. Or to learn that the desiring machines, which “continually break down as they run, and in fact run only when they are not functioning properly” (Deleuze and Guattari), were in fact echoing research on war traumas and brain plasticity from the First World War. Across the history of computation (from early cybernetics to artificial intelligence and current algorithmic capitalism) both mainstream technology and critical responses to it have shared a common belief in the determinism and positivism of the instrumental or technological rationality, to use the formulations of the Frankfurt School. Conversely, the aim of this anthology is to rediscover the role of error, trauma and catastrophe in the design of intelligent machines and the theory of augmented cognition. These are timely and urgent issues: the media hype of singularity occurring for artificial intelligence appears just to fodder a pedestrian catastrophism without providing a basic epistemic model to frame such an “intelligence explosion”.”
With texts by Benjamin Bratton, Orit Halpern, Adrian Lahoud, Jon Lindblom, Catherine Malabou, Reza Negarestani, Luciana Parisi, Matteo Pasquinelli, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Michael Wheeler, Charles Wolfe, and Ben Woodard.
Publisher meson.press, Lüneburg, November 2015
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 License
ISBN 9783957960658 (print) 9783957960665 (PDF)
212 pages