Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing (2017)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, art criticism, art history, avant-garde, communism, conceptual art, contemporary art, cosmism, marxism, russia, soviet union
“In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country’s most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region’s various movements of contemporary art, culture, and theory, from communism, cosmism and conceptualism to past and future futures.
With contributions from Barte de Baere, Boris Groys, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Anton Vidokle, Bogdan Mamonov, Pavel Pepperstein, Dmitri Prigov and Masha Sumnina amongst many others, this definitive collection reveals a compelling portrait of a vast and complex nation built on a contradicting dialectic between the material and the ideal and a culture battling its own histories and ideologies.”
Edited by Elena Zaytseva and Alex Anikina
Foreword by Bart De Baere
Publisher Zed Books, London, 2017
ISBN 9781786993243, 1786993244
xvii+516 pages
Lev Manovich: Instagram and Contemporary Image (2017)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, digital humanities, image, instagram, photography, visual culture
“This in-depth study of Instagram combines methods from art history, media studies, and data science, and draws on computational analysis of 16 million Instagram photos shared in 17 global cities since 2012. The data collection and analysis were performed in Manovich’s Cultural Analytics Lab in the Qualcomm Institute (UCSD Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology). ”
Self-published September 2017
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License
148 pages
Nathan Brown, Petar Milat (eds.): Poiesis (2017)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, literary criticism, literary theory, literature, poetry
A volume based on a three-day symposium of the same title held at MaMa, Zagreb, in 2015.
Contributions by Thomas Schestag, Branka Arsić, David Wills, Jed Rasula, Marie Gil, Alexi Kukuljevic, Amanda Holmes, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Julie Beth Napolin, Aaron Schuster, Dee Morris & Stephen Voyce, and Nathan Brown.
Publisher Multimedijalni institut, Zagreb, and Centre for Expanded Poetics (Concordia University), Montréal, 2017
ISBN 9789537372132
234+xxxiii pages
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See also Angela Rawlings’ book Si Tu (2017).