Nick Kaye: Multi-media: Video, Installation, Performance (2007)

“Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the worlds foremost artists. Nick Kaye explores the interdisciplinary history and character of experimental practices shaped in exchanges between music, installation, theatre, performance art, conceptual art, sculpture and video.

The book sets out key themes and concerns in multi-media practice, addressing time, space, the resurgence of ephemerality, liveness and aura. These chapters are interspersed with documentary artwork and essays by artists whose work continues to shape the field, including new articles from Vito Acconci, The Builders Association, John Jesurun, Pipilotti Rist, and Fiona Templeton.

Multi-Media also reintroduces a major documentary essay by Paolo Rosa of Studio Azzurro in a new, fully illustrated form. This book combinessophisticated scholarly analysis and fascinating original work to present a refreshing and creative investigation of current multi-media arts practice.”

Publisher Routledge, 2007
ISBN 0415283817, 9780415283816
249 pages

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David Dunn (ed.): Eigenwelt Der Apparatewelt – Pioneers of Electronic Art (1992)

A major reference for the history of media arts.

Artistic director: Peter Weibel
Curators: Woody Vasulka and Steina Vasulka
Publisher The Vasulkas, Santa Fe, 1992
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held “Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt. Pionere der elektronischen Kunst”, June 22 – July 5, 1992, Ars Electronica, Linz
240 pages

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Geert Lovink, Sabine Niederer (eds.): Video Vortex Reader: Responses to Youtube (2008)

“The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from its explosive rise in 2005 with YouTube, to its future as a significant form of personal media. After years of talk about digital convergence and crossmedia platforms we now witness the merger of the Internet and television at a pace no-one predicted. These contributions from scholars, artists and curators evolved from the first two Video Vortex conferences in Brussels and Amsterdam in 2007 which focused on responses to YouTube, and address key issues around independent production and distribution of online video content. What does this new distribution platform mean for artists and activists? What are the alternatives?”

Contributors: Tilman Baumgärtel, Jean Burgess, Dominick Chen, Sarah Cook, Sean Cubitt, Stefaan Decostere, Thomas Elsaesser, David Garcia, Alexandra Juhasz, Nelli Kambouri and Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Minke Kampman, Seth Keen, Sarah Késenne, Marsha Kinder, Patricia Lange, Elizabeth Losh, Geert Lovink, Andrew Lowenthal, Lev Manovich, Adrian Miles, Matthew Mitchem, Sabine Niederer, Ana Peraica, Birgit Richard, Keith Sanborn, Florian Schneider, Tom Sherman, Jan Simons, Thomas Thiel, Vera Tollmann, Andreas Treske, Peter Westenberg.

Editorial assistance: Marije van Eck and Margreet Riphagen
Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2008
INC Reader series, 4
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 Netherlands License
ISBN 9789078146056
315 pages

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