Everything Magazine (1992-2001)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · aesthetics, art, art criticism, contemporary art, internet art, london, media culture, music, net art, new media, philosophy, technology, theory
The magazine reported on London’s independent art scene, projects, politics and philosophy throughout the 1990s. The web archive includes essays, interviews, reviews, web projects, and two eBC net casts.
Editorial collective (e/E): Luci Eyers, Steve Rushton aka Martina Kapopkin, John Timberlake
Published in London
via Steve Rushton
Interview with editors (Real Audio, 1999)
HTML (Issue -1)
HTML (partial archive, use menu at the bottom)
Net casts (1998)
Sabine Seymour: Functional Aesthetics: Visions in Fashionable Technology (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, design, fashion, fashion design, technology, wearable computing
Functional Aesthetics is a sequel to Seymour’s highly acclaimed book “Fashionable Technology” (Springer 2008) and contains new state-of-the-art and revealing artistic and design examples focusing on the aesthetic and functional aspects. Chapters like Contextual Prerequisite, Body Sculpture, or Transparent Sustainability provide in-depth studies of often visionary projects seen as stimulation for new developments in the matured field of “Fashionable Technology“. The book presents inspiring projects between the poles of fashion, design, technology, and sciences. It includes a list of relevant information on DIY resources, publications, inspirations, etc.
Publisher Springer, 2010
ISBN 3709103118, 9783709103111
232 pages
PDF, PDF (updated on 2014-12-22)
Comment (0)Vito Campanelli: Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, computing, digital media, internet, media, media culture, memes, networks, new media, remix, spam, subjectivity, technology, theory, virus, web
“We live in a world of rapidly evolving digital networks, but within the domain of media theory, which studies the influence of these cultural forms, the implications of aesthetical philosophy have been sorely neglected. Vito Campanelli explores network forms through the prism of aesthetics and thus presents an open invitation to transcend the inherent limitations of the current debate about digital culture.
The web is the medium that stands between the new media and society and, more than any other, is stimulating the worldwide dissemination of ideas and behaviour, framing aesthetic forms and moulding contemporary culture and society.
Campanelli observes a few important phenomena of today, such as social networks, peer-to-peer networks and ‘remix culture’, and reduces them to their historical premises, thus laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media.”
Publisher NAi Publishers, Rotterdam; in association with the Institute of Network Cultures at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences, October 2010
Studies in Network Cultures series
ISBN 9056627708, 9789056627706
276 pages
Reviews: Greg J Smith (Rhizome, 2011), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, 2011), Regine Debatty (We Make Money Not Art, 2011).
Book website
Interview with the author (Geert Lovink)
Interview with the author (Pasquale Napolitano, Digicult)
PDF, PDF (25 MB, updated on 2019-3-24)
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