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Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice

Were you born digital? This could be the ultimate, decisive question in the future when it comes to preserving and making the art of our time accessible for future generations.... READ MORE...

En Abime: Listening, Reading, Writing An archival fiction

En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience, and contributes with previously unexplored references to the emerging area of listening as artistic practice, adopting an expansive approach across poetry, visual art and literature.... READ MORE...

Illusions in Motion. Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama

In Illusions in Motion (MIT, 2012), Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. He investigates its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling... READ MORE...

Life in Code and Software. Edited by David M. Berry

This book explores the relationship between living, code and software. Technologies of code and software increasingly make up an important part of our urban environment. Indeed, their reach stretches to even quite remote areas of the world... READ MORE...

Network without a cause. A Critique of Social Media

Networks Without a Cause examines our collective obsession with identity and self-management coupled with the fragmentation and information overload endemic to contemporary online... READ MORE...

Euphoria and Dystopia – Banff New Media Institute

Euphoria and Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues is a compendium of some of the most important thinking about art and technology to have taken place in the last few decades at the international level... READ MORE...

Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet

In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach brilliance.... READ MORE...

The Do-It-Yourself Artwork – by Anna Dezeuze

Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive... READ MORE...

Digital Prohibition – by Carolyn Guertin, Continuum

In the first book to discuss the global politics of creativity and emergent models of authorship in a digital age, Guertin explores the creation of new media forms by artists who use technology to challenge established modes. Redefining authorship within remix culture, the book identifies the potentialities in the social nature of electronic works to foster new creative practices - from sampling to mashups to digital anthropophagy - on a global scale.... READ MORE...

What is media archeology? – by Jussi Parrika

This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture.... READ MORE...