Monika Fleischmann, Ulrike Reinhard (eds.): Digitale Transformationen: Medienkunst als Schnittstelle von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (2004) [German]

“Die Publikation Digitale Transformationen beschäftigt sich mit den grundlegenden Transformationen, welche die Kunst und das moderne Leben durch digitale Technologien erfahren. Theoretiker, Künstler und Wissenschaftler kommen neben Produzenten, Förderern und Vermittlern zu Wort, um die digitalen Transformationen in ihren vielfältigen Rollen und an konkreten Beispielen als neue Ästhetik und als Innovationsforschung vorzustellen. In der Kunst mit Informationstechnologien geht es um Bild(er-)findungen auf der Grundlage kommunikativer Prozesse, um begriffliche Strategien und kognitive Methoden. Damit möchten die Herausgeberinnen Ulrike Reinhard und » Monika Fleischmann nicht nur den klassischen Kulturbereich ansprechen, sondern die Medienkunst als künstlerische Position an der Schnittstelle von Technologie, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Kultur denen nahe bringen, die bereit sind, diese Kunstform als einen wichtigen Schlüsselfaktor für neues Denken und Innovation anzuerkennen und zu fördern. Medienkunst zeigt neue Weltbilder. Sie zeigt, wie wir verstehen, was wir sehen und hören. Die Texte geben einen Einblick in Diskurs und Praxis im deutschsprachigen Raum und sind hier nachzulesen.”

Authoren: Rosanne Altstatt, Gabriele Blome & Jochen Denzinger, Sabine Breitsameter, Bazon Brock, Dieter Daniels & Rudolf Frieling, Alberto de Campo & Julian Rohrhuber, Christian Dögl, Jan & Tim Edler, Sabine Flach, Monika Fleischmann 1, Monika Fleischmann 2, Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss, Herbert W. Franke, Ursula Frohne, Thomas Goldstrasz, Oliver Grau, Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Gabriele Hartmann, Sabine Himmelsbach, Susanne Jaschko, Wilhelm Krull und Vera Szöllösi-Brenig, Katja Kwastek, Dominik Landwehr, Wolf Lieser, Sigrid Markl & Virgil Widrich, Wilfried Matanovic, Peter Matussek, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer, Sibylle Omlin, Sebastian Peichl, Danièle Perrier, Ulrike Reinhard, Mareike Reusch, Joachim Sauter, Giaco Schiesser, Holger Schulze, Gerfried Stocker, Reinhard Storz, Georg Trogemann, Eku Wand, Peter Weibel, Ulrich Weinberg, Axel Wirths, Andrea Zapp, Christian Ziegler, Annett Zinsmeister

Publisher Netzspannung.org, Heidelberg, 2004
ISBN 3934013384
369 pages

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Rosa Menkman: The Glitch Moment(um) (2011)

In this book, Rosa Menkman brings in early information theorists not usually encountered in glitch’s theoretical foundations to refine a signal and informational vocabulary appropriate to glitch’s technological moment(um) and orientations. The book makes sense of recent glitch art and culture: technically, culturally, critically, aesthetically and finally as a genre.

The glitch takes on a different form in relation to noise, failure or the accident. It transitions between artifact and filter; between radical breakages and commodification processes. Menkman shows how we need to be clearer about the relationship between the technical and cultural dimensions of glitch culture. Honing in on the specificities of glitch artifacts within this broader perspective makes it possible to think through some of the more interesting implications of glitched media experience. Using a critical media aesthetic orientation, Menkman addresses the ongoing definitional tensions, paradoxes, and debates that any notion of glitch art as a genre must negotiate, rather than elude.

Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011
Network Notebooks 04
ISBN: 978-90-816021-6-7
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dj readies (Craig J. Saper): Intimate Bureaucracies: A Manifesto (2012)

Intimate Bureaucracies is a history from the future looking backward at our present moment as a turning point. Our systems of organization and control appear unsustainable and brutal, and we are feeling around in the dark for alternatives. Using experiments in social organization in downtown New York City, and other models of potential alternative social organizations, this manifesto makes a call to action to study and build sociopoetic systems.

One alternative system, the Occupy movement, has demands and goals beyond the specific historical moment and concerns. This short book/manifesto suggests that the organization and communication systems of Occupying encampments represent important necessities, models, goals, and demands, as well as an intimate bureaucracy that is a paradoxical mix of artisanal production, mass-distribution techniques, and a belief in the democratizing potential of social media.

Participatory decentralization, a mantra of political networks, expresses a peculiar intimate bureaucratic form. These forms of organization represent a paradoxical mix of artisanal production, mass-distribution techniques, and a belief in the democratizing potential of social media. Borrowing from mass-culture image banks, these intimate bureaucracies play on forms of publicity common in societies of spectacles and public relations. Intimate bureaucracies monitor the pulse of the society of the spectacle and the corporatized bureaucracies: economics as in Big Business, culture as in Museums and Art Markets, mass media as in Studio Systems and Telecommunication Networks, safety as in Big Brother militarized police forces, and politics as in Big Government. Rather than simply mounting a campaign against big conglomerations of business, government, police, and culture, these intimate bureaucracies and their works use the forms of corporate bureaucracies for intimate ends. Rather than reach the lowest common denominator, they seek to construct what those in the business world would call niche marketing to ultra-specific demographics. Businesses, interested in utilizing the World Wide Web and the Internet, already use these strategies for niche marketing. The historical examples and sketches, explored in this pamphlet, examine how these cultural experiments emulate and resist the systems used in Internet marketing.

The apparent oxymoron, intimate bureaucracies, suggests not only a strategy, but the very basis for the new productive mythology surrounding the electronic World Wide Web.

Intimacy, the close familiarity of friendship or love, by definition depends on a small-scale system of communication. Its warmth, face-to-face contact, and fleeting impact has often made it the subject of art and literature. It usually only appears in administration situations as either an insincere ornamentation of a political campaign (“pressing the flesh” or “kissing babies”), or as inappropriate office behavior (affairs, gossip, child abuse, etc.), but rarely as the center of a political system. The “small is beautiful” movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s did suggest the possibility of an intimacy in politics, but not how to scale the system to the size of a government.

Publisher Punctum Books, Brooklyn, New York; with AK Press Tactical Media, Baltimore / Oakland / Edinburgh; and Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / Brooklyn / Port Watson, March 2012
ISBN 978-0615612034
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