The Mag.net Reader: Experiences in Electronic Cultural Publishing (2006)

“The story of Mag.net is the story of a networking effort by several European print magazines dealing with electronic culture. While this effort produced only mixed results and had to struggle hard for its successes, it was throughout characterised by a spirit of cooperation that had many positive effects and fostered lasting friendships among the participants.” (from the Introduction)

Contributions by Alessandro Ludovico, Slávo Krekovič, Mute, Miren Eraso, Nicolas Malevé, Monica Narula, Awadhendra Sharan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Christiane Fricke, Krystian Woznicki, Christian Höller, Joost Smiers & Marieke Van Schijndel.

Edited by Miren Eraso, Alexandro Ludovico, Slávo Krekovič
With introduction by Andreas Broeckmann
Publisher: Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
Creative Commons license. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
ISBN 8479075082
122 pages

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Public Netbase: Non Stop Future. New practices in Art and Media (2008)

The publication is both a review of the pioneer days from the perspective of Public Netbase as well as an outlook into the future of art and culture in digital networks. It provides an overview of a critical information economy discourse, insights into Tactical Media strategies and a critique of the loss of public domain and the commons. Based on the extensive archives of Public Netbase, the book features some of the most spectacular and controversial art projects and interventions from 1994 to 2006. It also offers historical documents and manifestos critical of commercialization and control society issues, together with a view into the digital world of tomorrow.

Sections: Discourse; New Art Practices; Tactical Media; Digital Mediaculture, Networking and Participation; Public Netbase; World-information.org

Editors: Branka Ćurčić, Zoran Pantelić / New Media Center_kuda.org
Editorial team: Konrad Becker, Branka Ćurčić, Zoran Pantelić, Felix Stalder, Martin Wassermair
Publisher Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, 2008
ISBN 9783865884558

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Felix Stalder: Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks (2005) [English, Serbian]

“Anyone interested in the relation between cultural production and consumption and the development of Free and Open Software (FOSS) will want to read these essays by Open Source pioneer Felix Stalder, the first research to be published within the “Note Book” project by kuda.org. Stalder observes that culture can be approached as object-oriented or exchange-oriented, and believes that Open Source eventually leads to a more open society. Stalder, a lecturer in media economy at Zurich’s Academy of Art and Design, is a managing partner of Openflows, an international network focusing on research and development of Open Source technology and culture. He apparently has some Open Source aspects of his personal life as well: his official biography notes that he lives ‘together with Andrea Mayr and Selma Viola, all three proud to be flesh.'”

Edited by New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad
Publishers Futura publikacije, Novi Sad, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, and Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 2005
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.5 License
ISBN 9783865882110
190 pages

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Otvorena kultura i priroda mreža (Serbian, added on 2017-6-4)