Joanne Richardson (ed.): An@rchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, cultural resistance, floss, gift economy, mass media, net art, networks, social movements, tactical media
“An@rchitexts brings together a global mix of voices from the new ‘underground’: engaged artists intervening in local struggles on the streets, media producers promoting technologies based on sharing and cooperation rather than privatization and competition, activists participating in global networks built through electronic democracies and decentralized forms of cooperation, and extraordinary people creating an alternative society through their everyday practices.
As a matter of principle An@rchitexts reflects the first-hand perspective of those involved at the point of production, not distanced reflections by critics, specialists, or armchair theorists.”
Publisher Autonomedia, 2005
ISBN 1570271429, 9781570271427
368 pages
PDF (13 MB, no OCR, some pages missing, updated on 2019-11-7)
Comment (0)Judy Malloy (ed.): Women, Art, and Technology (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · collaborative art, computer graphics, electronic art, gender, installation art, interactivity, mass media, media, media art, net art, performance, performance art, technology, video art, women
“Although women have been at the forefront of art and technology creation, no source has adequately documented their core contributions to the field. Women, Art, and Technology, which originated in a Leonardo journal project of the same name, is a compendium of the work of women artists who have played a central role in the development of new media practice. The book includes overviews of the history and foundations of the field by, among others, artists Sheila Pinkel and Kathy Brew; classic papers by women working in art and technology; papers written expressly for this book by women whose work is currently shaping and reshaping the field; and a series of critical essays that look to the future.
Artist contributors include computer graphics artists Rebecca Allen and Donna Cox; video artists Dara Birnbaum, Joan Jonas, Valerie Soe, and Steina Vasulka; composers Cecile Le Prado, Pauline Oliveros, and Pamela Z; interactive artists Jennifer Hall and Blyth Hazen, Agnes Hegedus, Lynn Hershman, and Sonya Rapoport; virtual reality artists Char Davies and Brenda Laurel; net artists Anna Couey, Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss, Nancy Paterson, and Sandy Stone; and choreographer Dawn Stoppiello. Critics include Margaret Morse, Jaishree Odin, Patric Prince, and Zoe Sofia.”
Foreword by Pat Bentson
Publisher MIT Press, 2003
ISBN 0262134241, 9780262134248
541 pages
PDF (6 MB, updated on 2020-4-23)
Comment (0)Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, mass media, postmodernism, visual culture, visual studies
“The emerging field of visual culture poses rough terrain for beginners with its nuanced distinctions and reliance on postmodern theory. Not untilAn Introduction to Visual Culturehas any book attempted to present a comprehensive and accessible approach to this exciting new subject. Nicholas Mirzoeff begins by defining what visual culture is, and explores how and why visual media–fine art, cinema, the Internet, advertising, performance, photography, television–have become so central to contemporary everyday life. He argues that the visual is replacing the linguistic as our primary means of communicating with each other and of understanding our postmodern world, demonstrating this through powerful examples, from Diana’s funeral to the Latina singer Selena, and from the X-Files to Independence Day. Mirzoeff then examines the importance of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and the body in visual culture. These various forms of social discourse provide essential tools for readingimages and thus define the study of visual culture as an inherently political project. Mirzoeff tackles the difficult subject of the gaze and the “other” and offers the reader a clear synthesis of these concepts. Lively and provocative,An Introduction to Visual Cultureoffers an accessible entry to this new way of understanding images.”
Keywords: Art and society, Visual communication, Visual perception, Mass media, Communication and culture, Postmodernism, Visual sociology, Popular culture, Media
Publisher Routledge, 1999
ISBN 0415158761, 9780415158763
274 pages
EPUB (updated on 2012-7-18)
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