Virtueel Platform Research: Blast Theory (2011)

“Blast Theory is artist group using interactive media, creating performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting. Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, the group’s work explores interactivity and the social and political aspects of technology. It confronts a media saturated world in which popular culture rules, using performance, installation, video, mobile and online technologies to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information that envelops us.

This publication focuses on the work and the creative process of Blast Theory, specifically the project Uncle Roy All Around You.”

Edited by Rachel Feuchtwang
Publisher Virtueel Platform, May 2011
Virtueel Platform Research series
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Netherland License
36 pages

Publisher
via Renée Turner

PDF (updated on 2017-7-11)

Domenico Quaranta: In Your Computer (2011)

This book is a collection of texts written by Domenico Quaranta between 2005 and 2010 for exhibition catalogues, printed magazines and online reviews: a pocket version of what the author would save from the universal flood, in a world without computers. It documents most of the fields of research he has focused on critically: from Net Art to Software Art and videogames, from biotechnologies to the debate around curating and the positioning of New Media Art in the contemporary landscape, and back to Net Art again.

This itinerary is traced through a selection of essays, monographic texts and interviews with artists and curators, in no particular order: from Eva and Franco Mattes to Casey Reas, from UBERMORGEN.COM to Oliver Laric, from Cory Arcangel to Tale of Tales, from Jon Ippolito to Gazira Babeli.

As the author writes in the introduction: «We are in the midst of a major change. At the end of the process, not only the way we live, work, travel and communicate, but also the political and economical structures and the social organization we are used to will probably be fundamentally different from how they are now. In art, this change will be complete when the way we make, circulate and understand art is completely different from the way we do it now; and when the way we understand the difference between copies and original and between art and non-art will have adapted to the new models created by the information age. The most we can do now is to take our time, adapt to our new living conditions, be aware of the process going on and look to the most radical propositions around for signals of what is to come. In the awareness that we probably don’t have to look that far: these signals are already here, in our computers.»

Translation and editing: Anna Rosemary Carruthers
Publisher: LINK Editions, Brescia 2011.
ISBN: 978-1-4467-6021-5
180 pages
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

publisher
lulu.com
via Domenico Quaranta

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The Gift of Nam June Paik, 2 vols (2009) [English, Korean]

Papers from the seminars which took place at Nam June Paik Art Center in South Korea on 4-5 February and 3-4 September 2009.

Contributors to Vol. 1: Hannah Higgins, Suki Kim, Seongho Haam, Midori Yamamura, Mary Bauermeister, Youngchul Lee, Jinsok Kim, Bazon Brock, Jinkyung Yi.

Contributors to Vol. 2: Jungjin Park, Hunyee Jung, Susanne Neuburger, David Zerbib, Chunsil Yoon, Jeonghwan Jo, Hank Bull, Kogawa Tetsuo, Chulki Hong, Joonggwon Jin.

Publisher: Nam June Paik Art Center, 2009

Publisher (Vol. 1)
Publisher (Vol. 2)

Vol. 1: Shifting Perspectives and The Notion of Time
ZIP’d PDFs (English, updated on 2014-2-11)
ZIP’d PDFs (Korean, updated on 2014-2-11)
Vol. 2: Retying Gordian Knots
ZIP’d PDFs (Korean, added on 2014-2-11)