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Book Ubermorgen com

    Book Details:
  • Author : Inke Arns
  • Publisher : Domenico Quaranta
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 8890330856
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Ubermorgen com written by Inke Arns and published by Domenico Quaranta. This book was released on 2009 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ubermorgen com

Download or read book Ubermorgen com written by Hans Bernhard and published by UBERMORGEN.COM. This book was released on 2009 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Error  Glitch  Noise  and Jam in New Media Cultures

Download or read book Error Glitch Noise and Jam in New Media Cultures written by Mark Nunes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section, "Hack," contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities for critical and aesthetic intervention within new media practices. In the second section, "Game," they examine how errors allow for intentional and accidental co-opting of rules and protocols toward unintended ends. The final section, "Jam," considers the role of error as both an inherent "counterstrategy" and a mode of tactical resistance within a network society. By offering a timely and novel exploration into the ways in which error and noise "slip through" in systems dominated by principles of efficiency and control, this collection provides a unique take on the ways in which information theory and new media technologies inform cultural practice.

Book Interface Criticism

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  • Author : Christian Ulrik Andersen
  • Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
  • Release : 2011-05-20
  • ISBN : 8771243372
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Interface Criticism written by Christian Ulrik Andersen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the screen of our laptops, and from the ubiquitous portable devices, smart phones, and media players, to the embedded computation in clothes, architecture and big urban screens, interfaces are everywhere. They are simultaneously demanding our attention and computing quietly in the background, turning action into inter-action, and mediating our experience of and relations to the social and environmental. But how can aesthetics respond to this, and how do interfaces set the scene for artistic practices? Interface Criticism is not another design manual but a critical investigation for readers interested in the aesthetic, cultural and political dimensions of interfaces. With contributions from leading researchers within the field, the book covers a wide range of aesthetic expressions - including urban screens, wearable interfaces, performances, games, net-art, software art, and sound art, and discusses how new cultures evolve around, for example, open souce or live coding. The volume critically investigates the aesthetics of interfaces in ways that transcend the iconic surface of the graphical user interface and goes beyond the buttons. Ultimately the book develops interface aesthetics as an appropriate paradigm for a critical discussion of the computer.

Book Throughout

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  • Author : Ulrik Ekman
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0262017504
  • Pages : 677 pages

Download or read book Throughout written by Ulrik Ekman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading media scholars consider the social and cultural changes that come with the contemporary development of ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers, movies, and high-resolution advertising displays. Technology has become at once larger and smaller, mobile and ambient. In Throughout, leading writers on new media--including Jay David Bolter, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, and Lev Manovich--take on the crucial challenges that ubiquitous and pervasive computing pose for cultural theory and criticism. The thirty-four contributing researchers consider the visual sense and sensations of living with a ubicomp culture; electronic sounds from the uncanny to the unremarkable; the effects of ubicomp on communication, including mobility, transmateriality, and infinite availability; general trends and concrete specificities of interaction designs; the affectivity in ubicomp experiences, including performances; context awareness; and claims on the "real" in the use of such terms as "augmented reality" and "mixed reality."

Book Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web

Download or read book Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web written by Martha McCaughey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyberactivism already has a rich history, but over the past decade the participatory web—with its de-centralized information/media sharing, portability, storage capacity, and user-generated content—has reshaped political and social change. Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web examines the impact of these new technologies on political organizing and protest across the political spectrum, from the Arab Spring to artists to far-right groups. Linking new information and communication technologies to possibilities for solidarity and action—as well as surveillance and control—in a context of global capital flow, war, and environmental crisis, the contributors to this volume provide nuanced analyses of the dramatic transformations in media, citizenship, and social movements taking place today.

Book Shifting Interfaces

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  • Author : Hava Aldouby
  • Publisher : Leuven University Press
  • Release : 2020-05-13
  • ISBN : 946270225X
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Shifting Interfaces written by Hava Aldouby and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big-data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap the overwhelming changes in our lived experience of self, body, and intersubjective relations. Shifting Interfaces addresses current exciting exchanges between art, science, and emerging technologies, highlighting a range of concerns that currently prevail in the field of media arts. This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the field, with a considerable representation of art-based research gaining salience in media art studies. The collection attends to art projects interrogating the destabilisation of identity and the breaching of individual privacy, the rekindled interest in phenomenology and in the neurocognitive workings of empathy, and the routes of interconnectivity beyond the human in the age of the Internet of Things. Offering a diversity of perspectives, ranging from purely theoretical to art-based research, and from aesthetics to social and cultural critique, this volume will be of great value for readers interested in contemporary art, art-science-technology interfaces, visual culture, and cultural studies.

Book Dada Data

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  • Author : Sarah Hegenbart
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-02-09
  • ISBN : 1350227633
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Dada Data written by Sarah Hegenbart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relevance of Dada and its artistic strategies in our current moment, one marked by post-truth politics, information floods and big data? How can contemporary art highlight the neglected nuances of cultural representation in the present day? While it may feel like we are living in a period of anomaly with the rise of the alt-right, this book shows how the Dada movement's artistic response to the aggressive nationalism and fascism of its time offers a fruitful analogy to our contemporary era. Dada's counter-cultural strategies, such as the distortion of reality and attacks on elites and rationality, have long been endorsed by artistic avantgardes and subcultures. Dada Data details how modern-day movements have appropriated such tactics in their ways of addressing the public both on- and offline. Bringing together contributions from interdisciplinary scholars, curators and artists working in global contexts that explore an array of artistic modes of persuasion and resistance, the book demonstrates how contemporary art can bring out neglected nuances of our post-truth moment. In linking the Dada movement's counter-cultural activities to modern phenomena such as post-internet art, information floods and big data mining, the book collates original propaganda with diverse artwork from such figures as Hannah Höch, Paula Rego, Tschabalala Self, Sheida Soleimani and South African artists donna Kukama and Kemang Wa Lehulere. In doing so, Dada Data brings together a rich scrapbook of Dada resources and perspectives that are highly relevant to present-day political concerns. With artistic contributions by IOCOSE, donna Kukama, Kemang Wa Lehulere and Montage Mädels.

Book The Fundamentals of Digital Art

Download or read book The Fundamentals of Digital Art written by Richard Colson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fundamentals of Digital Art by Richard Colson offers a comprehensive overview of the discipline and practice of digital art. The book provides detailed explanations of physical computing, using data sources, programming, networks for artists and contemporary experimental practices. The text is accompanied by extensive illustrations, ranging from work by recognised practitioners in the field to current student work from undergraduate programmes. It also includes clear workshop diagrams designed to help readers develop the confidence to work with the approaches covered in the book themselves.

Book Confronting Universalities

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  • Author : Mads Anders Baggesgaard
  • Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
  • Release : 2011-10-24
  • ISBN : 8771244891
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Confronting Universalities written by Mads Anders Baggesgaard and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe is expanding, the world has gone global, and the US has launched a crusade to export the universal right to democracy to every part of the world. Under the circumstances, it is hardly surprising that the concept of universality is making a remarkable comeback in aesthetic and political theory. The meaning of the world, however, seems more contested than ever. Some denounce it as the ideological guise of particular interests, others as the conceptual equivalent of totalitarianism. But a growing number maintain that universality is an indispensable notion for any genuinely critical aesthetics and politics. Confronting Universalites consists of 12 contributors that examine how contemporary works of art in different media and genres influence, shape, or confront the political realm in both theory and practice by way of the universal. The topics of the essays include depictions of German unification, identity politics of aesthetic taste, contemporary uses of van Gogh, globalized photography, the infamous Danish cartoons, iconic architecture, cinematic representations of migration, the speeches of Nicolas Sarkozy and the interventions of contemporary art in the war in Afghanistan. From various theoretical points of departure, they all demonstrate the importance of the universal in the description of political aesthetic practice in a globalising world.

Book After the Internet

Download or read book After the Internet written by Tiziana Terranova and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the internet's transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure. The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still effective in the present but less intelligible as such. After nearly two decades and a couple of financial crises, it has become the almost imperceptible background of today’s Corporate Platform Complex (CPC)—a pervasive planetary technological infrastructure that meshes communication with computation. In the essays collected in this book, written mostly between the mid-2000s and the late 2010s, Tiziana Terranova bears witness to this monstrous transformation. Mobilizing theories of cognitive capitalism, neo-monadology, and sympathetic cooperation, considering ideas such as the attention economy and its psychopathologies, and evoking the relation between algorithmic automation and the Common, she provides real-time takes on the mutations that have changed the technological, cultural, and economic ethos of the Internet. Mostly conceived, elaborated, and discussed in collective activist spaces, After the Internet is neither apocalyptic lamentation nor melancholic “rise and fall” story of betrayed great expectations. On the contrary, it looks within the folds of the recent past to unfold the potential futurities that the post-digital computational present still entails.

Book Ars Electronica 2005

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerfried Stocker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Ars Electronica 2005 written by Gerfried Stocker and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schapf.

Book Speaking Code

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoff Cox
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2012-11-16
  • ISBN : 0262304309
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Speaking Code written by Geoff Cox and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aesthetic and political implications of working with code as procedure, expression, and action. Speaking Code begins by invoking the “Hello World” convention used by programmers when learning a new language, helping to establish the interplay of text and code that runs through the book. Interweaving the voice of critical writing from the humanities with the tradition of computing and software development, in Speaking Code Geoff Cox formulates an argument that aims to undermine the distinctions between criticism and practice and to emphasize the aesthetic and political implications of software studies. Not reducible to its functional aspects, program code mirrors the instability inherent in the relationship of speech to language; it is only interpretable in the context of its distribution and network of operations. Code is understood as both script and performance, Cox argues, and is in this sense like spoken language—always ready for action. Speaking Code examines the expressive and performative aspects of programming; alternatives to mainstream development, from performances of the live-coding scene to the organizational forms of peer production; the democratic promise of social media and their actual role in suppressing political expression; and the market's emptying out of possibilities for free expression in the public realm. Cox defends language against its invasion by economics, arguing that speech continues to underscore the human condition, however paradoxical this may seem in an era of pervasive computing.

Book Faceless

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bogomir Doringer
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2018-06-11
  • ISBN : 3110527707
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Faceless written by Bogomir Doringer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this book explore a phenomenon that appears to be a contradiction in itself – we, the users of computers, can be tracked in digital space for all eternity. Although, on the one hand, one wants to be noticed and noticeable, on the other hand one does not necessarily want to be recognized at the first instance, being prey to an unfathomable public, or – even less so – to lose face. The book documents artistic and other strategies that point out options for appearing in the infinite book of faces whilst nevertheless avoiding being included in any records. The desire not to become a mere object of facial sell-out does not just remain an aesthetic endeavor. The contributions also contain combative and sarcastic statements against a digital dynamic that has already penetrated our everyday lives.

Book  mm Net Art   Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation

Download or read book mm Net Art Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation written by Marie Meixnerová (Ed.) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cyberarts 2000

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hannes Leopoldseder
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9783211834985
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Cyberarts 2000 written by Hannes Leopoldseder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compendium of Computer Arts from the Competition Prix Ars Electronica.

Book Gamescenes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matteo Bittanti
  • Publisher : Johan & Levi Editore
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Gamescenes written by Matteo Bittanti and published by Johan & Levi Editore. This book was released on 2006 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates artistic expressions made with an emphasis on videogames. Text in English and Italian.