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Moving Without A Body. Digital Philosophy & Choreographic Thoughts

Redazione DigicultJune 17, 2013

Moving without a Body considers what happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system, focusing on some choreographic realizations of this evolution.... READ MORE...

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Biohackers. The Politics of Open Science, Pluto Press

Redazione DigicultJune 17, 2013

Biohackers explores fundamental changes occuring in the circulation and ownership of scientific information. It argues that these biologists and many others are involved in a transformation of both life sciences and information systems... READ MORE...

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The Spectacle of Disintegration, by McKenzie Wark

Redazione DigicultJune 7, 2013

Following his history of the Situationist International, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark puts here the work of the Situationists in a broader context, charting their contemporary relevance and critique of modernity... READ MORE...

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Art & Culture(s) Numerique(s). International Panorama

Redazione DigicultMay 6, 2013

Digital creation, new media art, emergent art, digital art. Co-published by the Centre des Arts of Enghien-les-Bains. Editorial conception: The Centre des Arts and Music & Digital Cultures (MCD)... READ MORE...

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Variant Analyses. Interrogations of New Media Art and Culture

Redazione DigicultApril 24, 2013

By Patrick Lichty - A collection of essays that provide an extensive overview of critical thought on new media culture, written by an observer-participant who has made major contributions to the sociopolitical movements he archives... READ MORE...

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Networked Disruption by Digital Aesthetics Research Center Press

Redazione DigicultApril 19, 2013

The current techno-economic paradigm of Web 2.0 has challenged notions of art and hacktivism within digital culture. The book “Networked Disruption” takes up this challenge and discusses a new perspective on political and social criticism... READ MORE...

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Digital_Humanities. Many authors, MIT Press

Redazione DigicultMarch 22, 2013

Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, “What is digital humanities?,” it provides an examination of an emerging field... READ MORE...

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Illusions In Motion. Erkki Huhtamo, MIT Press

Redazione DigicultMarch 22, 2013

Illusions in Motion excavates an early manifestation of media culture in the making, the huge circular panoramas, presented their audiences with representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations... READ MORE...

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Unlike Us Reader. Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives

Redazione DigicultMarch 11, 2013

The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media, bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and artistic manifestos. Edited by Geert Lovink & Miriam Rasch... READ MORE...

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Computers and Creativity

Redazione DigicultJanuary 21, 2013

Edited by Jon McCormak and Mark d'Inverno - This interdisciplinary volume introduces new theories and ideas on creativity from the perspectives of science and art... READ MORE...

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Speaking Code. Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression

Redazione DigicultJanuary 21, 2013

By Geoff Cox and Alex McLean - Speaking Code undermine the distinctions between criticism and practice and emphasize the aesthetic and political implications of software studies... READ MORE...

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The Serendipity Machine. A Disruptive Business Model for Society 3.0

Redazione DigicultJanuary 21, 2013

By Sebastian Olma, with a foreword by Joe Pine. Illustrations by Yulia Kryazheva - Is actually possible to build a business - a machine - that systematically facilitates serendipity?... READ MORE...

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Immersion Into Noise. Open Humanties Press

Redazione DigicultDecember 7, 2012

The noise factor is the ratio of signal to noise of an input signal to that of the output signal. Noise can block with the meaning of a message in both human and electronic communication... READ MORE...

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Throughout Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing

Redazione DigicultNovember 24, 2012

In Throughout, Jay David Bolter, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, Lev Manovich and others, take on the crucial challenges that ubiquitous and pervasive computing pose for cultural theory and criticism... READ MORE...

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Florian Hecker: Chimerization by Primary Information

Redazione DigicultNovember 24, 2012

Florian Hecker's publication will feature a radically new form of documentation and typotranslation of four sound pieces that dramatize the phenomenon of Auditory Chimaeras.... READ MORE...

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Seeing Power. Art & Activism in the age of cultural production

Redazione DigicultNovember 24, 2012

Highlighting the work of some of the most innovative and interesting artists and activists working today, Thompson reads and praises sites and institutions that empower their communities to see power and re-imagine it... READ MORE...

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Mainframe Experimentalism by UC Press

Redazione DigicultNovember 6, 2012

Mainframe Experimentalism (Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts) challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley’s technological revolutions... READ MORE...

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REWIND. British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s

Redazione DigicultNovember 6, 2012

Rewind: Artists video in the 70s and 80s derives from a four-year research project into the history of an art form that has become the hallmark of contemporary art... READ MORE...

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