Constructivism and Kinetic Art: Exat 51, New Tendencies, catalogue (1995) [English/Croatian]
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, art, computing, constructivism, cybernetics, graphic design, information theory, kinetic art
Catalogue for an exhibition of the works of Exat 51 and New Tendencies from the collection of Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia.
Curated and edited by Marijan Susovski
With texts by Leonida Kovac, Marijan Susovski
Publisher City Gallery, Zagreb, June 1995
ISBN 9536043033
154 pages
via Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Jonathan Sterne: MP3: The Meaning of a Format (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · codec, compression, filesharing, history of technology, information theory, listening, mp3, noise, piracy, psychoacoustics, recording, silence, sound recording, technology
“MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world’s most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from hearing research conducted by the telephone industry in the 1910s, through the mid-century development of perceptual coding (the technology underlying the MP3), to the format’s promiscuous social life since the mid 1990s.
MP3s are products of compression, a process that removes sounds unlikely to be heard from recordings. Although media history is often characterized as a progression toward greater definition, fidelity, and truthfulness, MP3: The Meaning of a Format illuminates the crucial role of compression in the development of modern media and sound culture. Taking the history of compression as his point of departure, Jonathan Sterne investigates the relationships among sound, silence, sense, and noise; the commodity status of recorded sound and the economic role of piracy; and the importance of standards in the governance of our emerging media culture. He demonstrates that formats, standards, and infrastructures—and the need for content to fit inside them—are every bit as central to communication as the boxes we call “media.””
Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, NC, September 2012
Sign, Storage, Transmission series
ISBN 0822352877, 9780822352877
341 pages
Reviews: Robert Barry (review31), Hillegonda Rietveld (Times Higher Education), Hua Hsu (Slate).
Interview with the author: Eric Harvey (Pitchfork).
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Comment (0)Rudolf Arnheim: Entropy and Art: Essay on Disorder and Order (1971)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, entropy, homeostasis, information theory, perception, physics, psychophysics
“This essay is an attempt to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the principle of entropy implicit in the second law of thermodynamics; between the tendency toward greater organization and the general trend of the material universe toward death and disorder.”
Publisher University of California Press, 1971
ISBN 0520018036, 9780520018037
64 pages
Publisher (2010 edition)
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