The CryptoParty Handbook (2012)

This handbook is designed to help those with no prior experience to protect their basic human right to Privacy in networked, digital domains. By covering a broad array of topics and use contexts it is written to help anyone wishing to understand and then quickly mitigate many kinds of vulnerability using free, open-source tools. Most importantly however this handbook is intended as a reference for use during Crypto Parties.

Facilitated by Adam Hyde
Core Team: Marta Peirano, Asher Wolf, Julian Oliver, Danja Vasiliev, Malte Dik, Brendan Howell, Jan Gerber, Brian Newbold,
Assisted by Teresa Dillon, AT, Carola Hesse, Chris Pinchen, ‘LiamO’, ‘l3lackEyedAngels’, ‘Story89’, Travis Tueffel
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Pool (2011-2012)

“Pool is a platform dedicated to expanding and improving the discourse between online and offline realities and their cultural, societal and political impact on each other.”

Contributors: Absis Minas, Andreas Ervik, Andrew Norman Wilson, Ann Hirsch, Anne de Vries, Billy Rennekamp, Bunny Rogers, Caitlin Denny, Casey A. Von Gollan, Constant Dullaart, Daniel G. Baird, Devin Kenny, Duncan Malashock, Erik Stinson, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Gene McHugh, Ginger Scott, Harry Burke, Isabel Gylling & Matthew Ferguson, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jennifer Chan, Jimmy Chen, Joanne McNeil, Jordan Tate, Joshua Simon, Karen Archey, Kate Steciw, Katja Novitskova, Leo Merz, Louis Doulas, Marisa Olson, Martin Jaeggi, Nicholas O’Brien, Patrick Armstrong, Riyo Nemeth, Robert John, Robert Lorayn, Ry David Bradley, Ryan Barone, Samuel Riviere, Sofia Leiby, Timur Si-Qin, Tom Moody, Wyatt Niehaus

Editor: Louis Doulas
Contributing editors: Absis Minas, Ria Roberts, Sofia Leiby
PDF design: Rasmus Svensson
Pool can easily be physically distributed and stocked at any gallery, shop, library, etc. by simply downloading each month’s PDF issue and printing.

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Olga Goriunova: Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (2011)

“In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach brilliance. In order to understand the processes that produce culture, the author introduces the concept of the art platform, a specific configuration of creative passions, codes, events, individuals and works that are propelled by cultural currents and maintained through digitally native means. Art platforms can occur in numerous contexts bringing about genuinely new cultural production, that, given enough force, come together to sustain an open mechanism while negotiating social, technical and political modes of power.

Software art, digital forms of literature, 8-bit music, 3D art forms, pro-surfers, and networks of geeks are test beds for enquiry into what brings and holds art platforms together. Goriunova provides a new means of understanding the development of cultural forms on the Internet, placing the phenomenon of participatory and social networks in a conceptual and historical perspective, and offering powerful tools for researching cultural phenomena overlooked by other approaches.”

Publisher Routledge, 2011
Volume 35 of Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
ISBN 0415893100, 9780415893107
228 pages

Reviews: Annet Dekker (OPEN, 2012), Tony Sampson (Mute, 2012), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, 2012), Hanna Kuusela (Media, Culture & Society, 2013).

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