Timothy Murray: Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (2008)

“Digital Baroque analyzes the philosophical paradigms that inform contemporary screen arts. Examining a wide range of art forms, Murray reflects on the rhetorical, emotive, and social forces inherent in the screen arts’ dialogue with early modern concepts. Among the works discussed are digitally oriented films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, and Chris Marker; video installations by Thierry Kuntzel, Keith Piper, and Renate Ferro; and interactive media works by Toni Dove, David Rokeby, and Jill Scott. Sophisticated readings reveal the electronic psychosocial webs and digital representations that link text, film, and computer.

Murray puts forth a Deleuzian psychophilosophical approach—one that argues that understanding new media art requires a fundamental conceptual shift from linear visual projection to nonlinear temporal folds intrinsic to the digital form.”

Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2008
ISBN 0816634017, 9780816634019
320 pages

Key terms: Prospero’s Books, Bill Viola, King Lear, Gilles Deleuze, CD-ROM, Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Laplanche, Louis Marin, Peter Greenaway, Leibniz, Keith Piper, Miroslaw Rogala, Psychoanalysis, Mary Ann Doane, Mona Hatoum, Kuntzel’s, electronic arts, Okinawa, scansion

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Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen, Matteo Pasquinelli (eds.): C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader (2007)

C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader is an anthology that collects the best material from two years of debate from The Art and Politics of Netporn 2005 conference to the 2007 C’Lick Me festival. The C’Lick Me reader opens the field of ‘Internet pornology’. Based on non-conventional approaches and mixing academics, artists and activists, it reclaims a critical post-enthusiastic, post-censorship perspective on netporn, a dark field that has been dominated thus far by dodgy commerce and filtering.

The C’Lick Me reader covers the rise of the netporn society from the Usenet underground to the blogosphere, analyses economic data and search engine traffic, compares sex work with the work of fantasy, disability and accessibility. The reader also expands the notion of digital desire beyond the predictable boundaries of the porn debate and depicts a broader libidinal spectrum ranging from fetish subcultures to digital alienation, from code pornography to war pornography. C’Lick Me concludes by re-contextualising queer discourse into a post-porn scenario.

Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007
ISBN 9789078146032

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Christian Nold (ed.): Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self (2009)

Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualising intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology.

Edited by Christian Nold, 2009
Essays by Raqs Media Collective, Marcel van de Drift, Dr Stephen Boyd Davis, Rob van Kranenburg, Sophie Hope and Dr Tom Stafford

A5 Offset Litho – 96 pages – Full Colour
ISBN 978-0-9557623-1-4
Published under a Creative Commons, Attribution, NonCommercial, ShareAlike Licence

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