Joanne Richardson (ed.): An@rchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, cultural resistance, floss, gift economy, mass media, net art, networks, social movements, tactical media
“An@rchitexts brings together a global mix of voices from the new ‘underground’: engaged artists intervening in local struggles on the streets, media producers promoting technologies based on sharing and cooperation rather than privatization and competition, activists participating in global networks built through electronic democracies and decentralized forms of cooperation, and extraordinary people creating an alternative society through their everyday practices.
As a matter of principle An@rchitexts reflects the first-hand perspective of those involved at the point of production, not distanced reflections by critics, specialists, or armchair theorists.”
Publisher Autonomedia, 2005
ISBN 1570271429, 9781570271427
368 pages
PDF (13 MB, no OCR, some pages missing, updated on 2019-11-7)
Comment (0)Judy Malloy (ed.): Women, Art, and Technology (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · collaborative art, computer graphics, electronic art, gender, installation art, interactivity, mass media, media, media art, net art, performance, performance art, technology, video art, women
“Although women have been at the forefront of art and technology creation, no source has adequately documented their core contributions to the field. Women, Art, and Technology, which originated in a Leonardo journal project of the same name, is a compendium of the work of women artists who have played a central role in the development of new media practice. The book includes overviews of the history and foundations of the field by, among others, artists Sheila Pinkel and Kathy Brew; classic papers by women working in art and technology; papers written expressly for this book by women whose work is currently shaping and reshaping the field; and a series of critical essays that look to the future.
Artist contributors include computer graphics artists Rebecca Allen and Donna Cox; video artists Dara Birnbaum, Joan Jonas, Valerie Soe, and Steina Vasulka; composers Cecile Le Prado, Pauline Oliveros, and Pamela Z; interactive artists Jennifer Hall and Blyth Hazen, Agnes Hegedus, Lynn Hershman, and Sonya Rapoport; virtual reality artists Char Davies and Brenda Laurel; net artists Anna Couey, Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss, Nancy Paterson, and Sandy Stone; and choreographer Dawn Stoppiello. Critics include Margaret Morse, Jaishree Odin, Patric Prince, and Zoe Sofia.”
Foreword by Pat Bentson
Publisher MIT Press, 2003
ISBN 0262134241, 9780262134248
541 pages
PDF (6 MB, updated on 2020-4-23)
Comment (0)Domenico Quaranta (ed.): Ubermorgen.com (2009)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · activism, hacktivism, media art, net art, software art
UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, in 1999 by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a founder of etoy. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and iconoclast – of what they call “the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde”. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixelpainting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk.
This monograph is a first attempt to provide an overview of their hybrid body of work, that moves constantly between art and entertainment, mass communication and one-to-one experience, digital and physical; and to introduce their corporate identity, that is itself a work of art. Through projects such as [V]ote Auction, Psych|OS, Art Fid, Superenhanced and the recent monument to the e-commerce age known as The EKMRZ Trilogy, and trough contributions by the art critics Inke Arns and Domenico Quaranta and the legendary net.art duo Jodi.org, this book is also a veritable portrait of a future that is already here.
Edited by Domenico Quaranta
Texts by Domenico Quaranta, Inke Arns, Jodi.org
Published by FPEditions, Brescia, February 2009
160 x 225 mm / 6.3 x 8.9 in
ISBN: 978-88-903308-5-8
96 pages