Fibreculture Journal 1-15 (2003-2009)

Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed international journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. The journal encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. Other broad topics of interest include the cultural contexts, philosophy and politics of information and creative industries; national and international strategies for innovation, research and development; education; media and culture, and new media arts.

What Now? : The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix
Fibreculture 15, 2009
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Web 2.0: Before, During and After the Event
Fibreculture 14, 2009
Edited by Darren Tofts and Christian McCrea
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After Convergence: What Connects?
Fibreculture 13, 2008
Edited by Caroline Bassett, Maren Hartmann, Kate O’Riordan
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Models, Metamodels and Contemporary Media
Fibreculture 12, 2008
Edited by Gary Genosko and Andrew Murphie
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The Futures of Digital Media Arts and Culture
Fibreculture 11, 2008
Edited by Andrew Hutchison and Ingrid Richardson
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New Media, Networks and New Pedagogies
Fibreculture 10, 2007
Edited by Adrian Miles
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General Issue
Fibreculture 9, 2006
Edited by Andrew Murphie
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Gaming Networks
Fibreculture 8, 2006
Edited by Chris Chesher, Alice Crawford and Julian Kücklich
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Distributed Aesthetics
Fibreculture 7, 2005
Edited by Lisa Gye, Anna Munster and Ingrid Richardson
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Mobility, New Social Intensities, and the Coordinates of Digital Networks
Fibreculture 6, 2005
Edited by Andrew Murphie, Larissa Hjorth, Gillian Fuller and Sandra Buckley
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Multitudes, Creative Organisation and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour
Fibreculture 5, 2005
Edited by Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter
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Contagion and the Diseases of Information
Fibreculture 4, 2005
Edited by Andrew Goffey
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General Issue
Fibreculture 3, 2004
Edited by Andrew Murphie
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New Media, New Worlds?
Fibreculture 2, 2003
Edited by Andrew Murphie
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The Politics of Networks
Fibreculture 1, 2003
Edited by Andrew Murphie
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Fibreculture Journal: Internet theory + criticism + research
Publisher: Fibreculture Publications/Open Humanities Press, Australia
ISSN: 1449 – 1443

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Viktor Šik: Umění 2.0 – umělecká tvorba v kontextu sociální sítě (2008) [Czech]

Cílem této práce je nalézt a popsat umění v prostředí internetových služeb označovaných pojmem web 2.0. V úvodu budou vedle sebe postaveny protikladné názory ohledně tohoto nového fenoménu související především s kulturou a uměleckou kreativitou jako takovou. Za úkol si tato práce také klade zjistit, jaké postavení umělci v prostředí webu 2.0 zaujímají. Práce se přitom dělí na dva okruhy: První z nich prozkoumává služby sociálních sítí zabývající se samotným uměním a poskytující prostor především amatérským, ale i profesionálním umělcům. Opačný pohled zaujímá druhý okruh, který hledá umělecká díla využívající nástrojů a dat sociálních sítí. Jde přitom jak o díla umístěná přímo v prostředí webu, tak i o galerijní instalace. Výsledkem je zmapování nejzajímavější a nejpřínosnější umělecké tvorby.

Klíčová slova
web 2.0, umění, nová média, umění nových médií, internet, sociální síť, mashup, autor, umělecká kreativita, kyberkultura, art, new media, social network, cyberculture, author, artistic creativity

Bakalářská diplomová práce
Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Obecná teorie a dějiny umění a kultury/Teorie interaktivních médií
Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Brno: FF MU, 2008

Art 2.0 – Artistic Creativity in a Context of Social Network
This piece of work aims to find and describe the art in the internet, more specifically in the web 2.0 environment. Firstly, contradictory opinions regarding this new phenomenon related mostly to culture and artistic creativity are laid and compared. Secondly, the goal is to find out the status that web 2.0 artists adopt. This piece of work divides into two parts: The first part explores services of social networks which provide space for either amateur and professional artists. Antagonistic view is given by the second part where it is searched for artistic masterpieces created using tools and data provided by the social networks. Both web presented pieces and gallery installations are considered. A map of the most interesting and contributing art work will become the final result of this piece of work.

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Mark Tribe, Reena Jana: New Media Art (2006-)

Artists have always been early adopters of emerging media technologies, from Albrecht Dürer and the printing press in the 16th century to Nam June Paik’s video experiments in the 1960s. In 1994, the advent of the internet as a popular medium catalyzed a global art movement that began to explore the cultural, social, and aesthetic possibilities of new communication technologies–the web, webcams and video surveillance cameras, wireless phones, hand-held computers, and GPS devices. This book addresses New Media art as a specific art historical movement, focusing on technologies, forms, thematic content and conceptual strategies. Often involving appropriation, collaboration, and shared ideas and expressions, New Media art frequently addresses issues of identity, commercialization, privacy, and public domain. Many New Media artists are profoundly aware of their historical antecedents, making reference to Dada, Pop Art, Conceptual art, Performance art, and Fluxus.

Featured artists: Cory Arcangel, Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Vuk Cosic, Mary Flanagan, Ken Goldberg, Paul Kaiser and Shelly Eshkar, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Mouchette, MTAA, Keith and Mendi Obadike, Radical Software Group, Raqs Media Collective, RTMark, and John F. Simon Jr.

This open-source wiki book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License. It is based on the manuscript of New Media Art, a book written by Mark Tribe and Reena Jana and published by Taschen in 2006. The Taschen book is available in French, German, Italian and Spanish in addition to English. This wiki book is not intended as a substitute or replacement for the Taschen book, but rather as an expandable educational resource to which artists, curators, students and others may contribute.

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