Siân Ede: Art and Science (2005)

“While demonstrating how science is affecting the creation and interpretation of contemporary art, this book proposes that artistic insights are as important on their own terms as those in science and that we can and should accommodate both forms of knowledge. Featuring the work of artists such as Damien Hirst, Christine Borland, Bill Viola and Helen Chadwick, and art-science collaborative ventures involving Dorothy Cross, Eduardo Kac and Stelarc, it looks at the way new scientific explanations for the nature of human consciousness can influence our interpretation of art, at the squeamish interventions being produced by artists relishing in new technologies and at art which takes on the dangers facing the fragile environment.”

Publisher I.B.Tauris, 2005
ISBN 1850435847, 9781850435846
216 pages

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Steven Pinker, Richard Deacon, Stelarc, Richard Gregory, Susan Derges, Martin Kemp, evolutionary psychologists, Wellcome Trust, Richard Wentworth, Richard Dawkins, Steven Rose, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Antonio Damasio, Nicholson Baker, Daniel Dennett, Andy Goldsworthy, Marcus du Sautoy, Damien Hirst, qualia, Jo Shapcott

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Dona Kolar-Panov: Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination (1997)

Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Macedonian and Croatian communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes that affected these diasporic groups on the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. She vividly describes the migrant audience’s daily emcounter with the media images of destruction and atrocities committed in Croatia and Bosnia, and charts the implications the continuous viewing of the real and excessive violence had on the awakening of their ethno-national consciousness.

Publisher Routledge, 1997
ISBN 0415148804, 9780415148801
270 pages

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Serbian, Western Australia, Stjepan Radic, Serbs, SFRJ, Perth, SBS-TV, Vukovar, semiosphere, Republic of Macedonia, Zagreb, Opuzen, satellite television, Skopje, video tapes, Sibenik, Aegean Macedonia, folk music, Croatian diaspora, intertitle

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Nicolas Bourriaud: Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World (2002–) [EN, ES, CZ, HU]

“In this book, French writer and curator Nicolas Bourriaud discusses how, since the early nineties, an ever increasing number of artworks have been created on the basis of preexisting works; more and more artists interpret, reproduce, re-exhibit, or use works made by others or available cultural products.

This art of postproduction seems to respond to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age, which is characterized by an increase in the supply of works and the art world’s annexation of forms ignored or disdained until now.”

First published in French in 2002.

Translated by Jeanine Herman
Publisher Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 2002
Second edition, with a new preface, August 2005
ISBN 0974568899
96 pages

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Postproduction (English, trans. Jeanine Herman, 2005, updated on 2023-7-21)
Postproducción (Spanish, trans. Silvio Mattoni, 2004, added on 2023-7-21)
Postprodukce (Czech, trans. Petr Turek, 2004, added on 2014-2-25)
Utómunkálatok (Hungarian, trans. Jancsó Júlia, 2007, 55 MB, no OCR, updated on 2023-7-21)