Mish Mash, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol 17 Issue 1 (2011)

A collection of articles, reviews and opinion pieces that discuss and analyze the complexity of mixing things together as a process that is not necessarily undertaken in an orderly and organized manner. Wide open opportunity to discuss issues in interdisciplinary education; art, science and technology interactions; personal artistic practices; history of re-combinatory practices; hybridizations between old and new media; cultural creolization; curatorial studies and more.

Contributions from Frieder Nake, Stelarc, Paul Catanese and other important cultural operators.

Editor-in-chief: Lanfranco Aceti
Co-editor: Paul Brown
Managing editor: John Francescutti
Editors: Martin John Callanan, Connor Graham, Jeremy Hight, Özden Şahin
Published by Leonardo/ISAST, San Francisco; with Sabanci University, Istanbul; and Goldsmiths, University of London; August 2011
ISBN: 978-1-906897-11-6
200 pages

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Nick Lambert: A Critical Examination of “Computer Art”: its History and Application (2003)

The thesis focuses principally on artists’ experiences of the computer and covers a wide range of approaches to computers in art.

DPhil thesis
Oxford University
Supervisor: Martin Kemp

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Daniel Miller (ed.): Materiality (2005)

“Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the material. Humans are defined, to an extraordinary degree, by their expressions of immaterial ideals through material forms. The essays in Materiality explore varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present. In assessing the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity, they signal the need to decenter the social within social anthropology in order to make room for the material.

Considering topics as diverse as theology, technology, finance, and art, the contributors—most of whom are anthropologists—examine the many different ways in which materiality has been understood and the consequences of these differences. Their case studies show that the latest forms of financial trading instruments can be compared with the oldest ideals of ancient Egypt, that the promise of software can be compared with an age-old desire for an unmediated relationship to divinity. Whether focusing on the theology of Islamic banking, Australian Aboriginal art, derivatives trading in Japan, or textiles that respond directly to their environment, each essay adds depth and nuance to the project that Materiality advances: a profound acknowledgment and rethinking of one of the basic properties of being human.”

Contributors. Matthew Engelke, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Bill Maurer, Lynn Meskell, Daniel Miller, Hirokazu Miyazaki, Fred Myers, Christopher Pinney, Michael Rowlands, Nigel Thrift

Publisher Duke University Press, 2005
Politics, History, and Culture series
ISBN 0822335425, 9780822335429
304 pages

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