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The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:26:31 PST

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Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism.In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our ...

Database Aesthetics

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 8:41:14 PST

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Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how an aesthetic emerges when artists use the vast amounts of available information as their medium. Here, the ways information is ordered and organized become artistic choices, and artists have an essenti ...

Libia Castro and Olafur Olafsson

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 8:28:43 PST

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This book, like the Venice installation, is conceived as a first comprehensive overview and in-depth analysis of more than ten years of their artistic practice, leading up to their most current works.

Exhibition Design

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 8:28:40 PST

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The book will inform and inspire, as well as equip students and new exhibition designerswith a valuable guide to the profession.

Bioart and the Vitality of Media

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 2:05:12 PST

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Bioart, art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice, now receives enormous media attention. Yet despite this attention, bioart is frequently misunderstood. "Bioart and the Vitality of Media" is the first comprehensive theoretical account of the art form, situating it in t ...

Generative Art

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 2:05:10 PST

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Form code in Design, Art, and Architecture

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 2:05:10 PST

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This next book in our Design Briefs series covers the role of software in visual design,art, and architecture.

Artandd

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 2:49:01 PST

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"aRt&D considers changes in art practice due to media, to that new branch ofart making known primarily as electronic art.

What We Believe But Cannot Prove

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 0:12:22 PST

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" More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds to ...

觀看的實踐：給所有影像世代的視覺文化導論

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 0:10:40 PST

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◆約翰．伯格（John Berger）《觀看的方式》之後精闢而全面的視覺文化論述 ◆給觀看影像、使用影像、理解影像的人的視覺文化經典 ◆政大廣電系副教授陳儒修審訂．導讀　　每一天，我們都在「觀看」的實踐中解讀這個世界　　「看」（to see）是觀察和認識周遭世界的一個過程。　　「觀看」（to look）則是主動去為這個世界製造意義。　　「看」（seeing）是我們每日生活中的某種隨性作為。　　「觀看」（looking）則是一種更有目的性與方向性的活動。　　「觀看」可以是容易或困難的，有趣或不悅的，無害或危險的。　　「觀看」同時存在著潛意識和意識這兩個層次。　　我們參與「觀看」的實踐是為了溝通、影響或被影響。　　這本無所不包又緊密貼合的視覺文化導論，探討了我們使用影像和理解影像的所有方法。本書檢視繪畫、照片、電影、電視和各種新媒體，涵 ...

The Guerilla Art Kit

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:53:33 PST

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We are living in what some have called a golden age of self-expression. The explosion of user-created content on blogs and social networking sites moved Time magazine to name "You" their 2006 person of the year. But while we may be spending a lot more time in virtual worlds, we have not lost the urge to make our physical world more meaningful. By leaving art and ideas in public places, you can af ...

Appropriation

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:39:50 PST

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Scavenging, replicating, or remixing, many influential artists today reinvent a legacy of "stealing" images and forms from other makers. Among the diverse, often contestatory strategies included under the heading "appropriation" are the readymade, detournement, pastiche, rephotography, recombination, simulation and parody. Although appropropriation is often associated with the 1980s practice of s ...

Noise, Water, Meat

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:39:40 PST

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This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the century and the ...

You are Not a Gadget

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:37:35 PST

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In "You are Not a Gadget" digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how the internet is deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people. Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before. ...

Else/Where

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 1:33:46 PST

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ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are gaining new currency in our information-saturated age as a means of making arguments and processes visible. Mapping technologies today are as diverse as t ...

An Introduction to Cyberculture

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:52:27 PST

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Provides an accessible guide to the major forms, practices and meanings of this rapidly growing field. Bell introduces readers to the key aspects of cyberculture, including email, the internet, digital imaging technologies, computer games and digital special effects. Softcover.

Interaction

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:45:11 PST

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INTERACTION began as online forum, hosted by Eyebeam Atelier, featuring an international group of artists, scholars, critics, architects, students, technicians, and curators. Discussing the transformations wrought by the Internet--particularly the latter's implications for artistic practices--the participants in this forum illustrate how the impassioned debates taking place on the Net can help fo ...

How Images Think

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:43:24 PST

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Digital images are an integral part of all media, including television, film, photography, animation, video games, data visualization, and the Internet. In the digital world, spectators become navigators wending their way through a variety of interactive experiences, and images become spaces of visualization with more and more intelligence programmed into the very fabric of communication processe ...

The New Media Reader

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:42:34 PST

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This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical context and explain their significance. The texts were ...

New Philosophy for New Media

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:42:07 PST

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In New Philosophy for New Media, Mark Hansen defines the image in digital art in terms that go beyond the merely visual. Arguing that the "digital image" encompasses the entire process by which information is made perceivable, he places the body in a privileged position -- as the agent that filters information in order to create images. By doing so, he counters prevailing notions of technological ...

Video Art

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:41:24 PST

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This book is the first detailed overview of an art form born less than forty years ago and now ubiquitous internationally. Made possible by the introduction of the Sony Portapak in 1965, video art has moved from brief showings on tiny screens in alternative art spaces to dominance in international exhibitions and artistic events, in which vast video installations sometimes occupy factory-size bui ...

Art of the Digital Age

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:40:57 PST

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The first major illustrated survey of this exciting, new, and experimental field. Building on the traditions of art history and using advanced technologies, digital artists push the boundaries of artistic expression and explore some of the most urgent social, political, and biological issues facing humankind today. Traditional activities such as painting and sculpture have been radically tran ...

Relational Aesthetics

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:37:41 PST

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Participation

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:37:25 PST

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The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone so far as to encourage a ...

Sensorium

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:36:32 PST

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The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy investigations of embodie ...

Materializing New Media

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:36:15 PST

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In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, Munster seeks to "materialize" digital culture by demonstrating that its aesthetics have reconfigured bodily experience and reconceived materiality. Her topics range fro ...

Deep Time of the Media

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:35:41 PST

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A quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development - not by simply looking at new media's historic forerunners, but by connecting models, machines, technologies, and accidents that have until now remained separated. Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development - dynamic moments of intense activity in media d ...

Bodies in Code

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:35:25 PST

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Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really ...

From Technological to Virtual Art

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:34:59 PST

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In From Technological to Virtual Art, respected historian of art and technology Frank Popper traces the development of immersive, interactive new media art from its historical antecedents through today's digital, multimedia, and networked art. Popper shows that contemporary virtual art is a further refinement of the technological art of the late twentieth century and also a departure from it. Wha ...

Digital Art

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:34:23 PST

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Digital technology has had a major impact on the production and experience of art during the past decade and a half. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography, and sculpture been transformed by digital techniques and media, but entirely new forms such as net art, software art, digital installation, and virtual reality have emerged as recognized practices, coll ...

Internet Art

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:33:02 PST

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The diverse forms of Internet art and the tools and equipment used to create them are discussedand placed within the wider cultural context. When the Internet emerged as a mass global communication network in the mid-1990s, artists immediately recognized the exciting possibilities for creative innovation that came with it. After a century of unprecedented artistic experimentation, individuals an ...

The New Screen Media

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:32:28 PST

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Juxtaposing the work of leading cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, against creative artists', this book attempts to accommodate to these vehicles of content and shows how classical narrative has been giving way to a new, more fragmentary culture of drama. The New Screen Media proposes critical tools for discussing the inner design and immersive effects of the new media forms and th ...

Windows and Mirrors

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 0:32:06 PST

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In Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner; it feels like a medium that is now taking its place beside other medi ...

A History of Experimental Film and Video

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:40:04 PST

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Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In this book A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between, on the one hand, the cinema, and, on the other hand, modern art (with its post-modern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discours ...

Future Cinema

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:39:21 PST

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Throughout the history of cinema, a radical avant-garde has existed on the fringes of the film industry. A great deal of research has focused on the pre- and early history of cinema, but there has been little speculation about a future cinema incorporating new electronic media. Electronic media have not only fundamentally transformed cinema but have altered its role as a witness to reality by ren ...

Virtual Art

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:37:42 PST

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Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and rel ...

First Person

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:35:45 PST

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Electronic games have established a huge international market, significantly outselling non-digital games; people spend more money on The Sims than on 'Monopoly' or even on 'Magic: the Gathering'.

請用文明來說服我

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:34:56 PST

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Information Arts

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:59:32 PST

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A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology--not just to adopt the vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities. Indeed, proposes Stephen Wilson, the role of the artist is not only to interpret and to spread scientific knowledge, but to be an active partner in determining the direction of research. Years ago, C. P. Snow wrote a ...

At the Edge of Art

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:59:07 PST

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A dizzying array of artworks by over fifty creators, illustrated in a dynamic design that challenges conventional art publications. Desktop computer technology and the Internet have opened up new possibilities for artistic creation, distribution, and appreciation. But in addition to projects that might conventionally be described as new-media art, there is now a wide spectrum of workunclassifi ...

香港風格(2)消滅香港

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:53:58 PST

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於 2005 年出版的《香港風格》是本地出版界的一件奇事。在沒有宣傳、沒有大量傳媒曝光下，這本大家都以為是深奧的城市建築為題的作品，在人傳人的口碑之下，至今出版了四版，銷量接近一萬本。2006 年，胡恩威再接再厲，出版《香港風格 2 ──消滅香港》，連同攝影師──人山人海創作人于逸堯，及多位作者，包括香港中文大學建築系副教授鄭炳鴻、嶺南大學文化研究系副教授許寶強、香港理工大學設計學院副教授邵健偉等，各自將自己對本地公共空間與建築的觀察、經驗和感情，化為文字與圖片，帶領讀者繼續尋找香港風格。本書分為消滅香港、消滅城市，消滅小販、消滅家庭，消滅生活，消滅藝術、規劃閱讀四個篇章，環繞城市組成的重要部分──舊區、街市、小販、公共房屋、公共藝術、商場等，探討目前香港城市規劃政策的弊病與結果。

The Practice of Everyday Life

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:32:35 PST

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Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense t ...

The Revolution of Everyday Life

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:32:02 PST

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Finally, back in print again, the essential handbook for all of us still alienated by modern capitalism. Together with Debord, Vaneigem was the main theorist of Situationist ideas. He has the added benefit of being eminently more readable! An incredible work, more potent now than ever. "We have a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.......You want to fuck around with us? Not ...

The Language of New Media

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:43:45 PST

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In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. ...

Remediation

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:36:38 PST

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Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges ...

事後

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:35:31 PST

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　　陳冠中繼《香港三部曲》和《我這一代香港人》後寫成《事後─本土文化誌》，寫的還是香港人、香港事。新作由牛津大學出版社出版，與《香港三部曲》和《我這一代香港人》成一系列。　　作者說自己是在香港開蒙，想借此書追憶，到底是哪些人哪些事哪些書開蒙了他。對於作者來說，香港最生猛的，大約在七十年代，那是香港文化脫胎換骨的時期。文化既是個多義詞，文化創意產業更是神奇、混雜的一體多面，那就是陳冠中筆下的細藝：細藝無分廟堂江湖，各自修行、各顯精彩、各領風騷，卻共譜時代精神。電影、電視、電台、音樂、報紙、雜誌、圖書、漫畫、美術、工藝、時裝、設計、收藏、廣告、建築、攝影、戲劇、戲曲、舞蹈、小說、散文、詩歌、報導、評論、學術……在這裡，作者對自己長大的小地方這麼有感情，並且有勇氣大聲喊出來：Kowloon, Kowloon Hong Kong, we like Hong Kong, that's the p ...

The Society of the Spectacle

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:35:30 PST

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Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth cenlury. Now finally available in a superb Engli ...

Minimalism

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:35:30 PST

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The controversy surrounding Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII, made of 120 firebricks, gives an idea of the difficulty some people have in seeing such works as art. This book aims to show not only how "The Bricks" can be seen as art, but that sculpture such as this is some of the most interesting and imaginative work to come out of the 1960s. The term Minimalism has been applied to this type of art. ...

Electronic Culture

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:35:30 PST

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A rich compilation of essays by some of today s leading theorists and media critics, this important book gathers a series of vital explorations into diverse forms of visualizations in a cultural environment wired into the global network. With its emphasis on the impact of the digital revolution in the late 20th century and the historical context in which it arose, Electronic Culture could not be ...

我這一代香港人

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:28:52 PST

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