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The 3D Additivist Cookbook. Edited by Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke

Redazione DigicultDecember 18, 2016

The 3D Additivist Cookbook, devised and edited by Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, is a free compendium of imaginative, provocative works from over 100 world-leading artists, activists and theorists. The 3D Additivist Cookbook contains 3D .obj and .stl files, critical and fictional texts, templates, recipes, (im)practical designs and methodologies for living in this most contradictory of times.... READ MORE...

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A Companion to Digital Art, by Christiane Paul

Redazione DigicultMarch 21, 2016

Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide written by Christiane Paul spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today’s digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.... READ MORE...

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Social Media in Southeast Turkey

Redazione DigicultMarch 10, 2016

This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Elisabetta Costa uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain why public-facing social media is more conservative than offline life.... READ MORE...

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Disorder and the Disinformation Society

Redazione DigicultFebruary 9, 2016

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder... READ MORE...

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Mass Effect. Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century

Redazione DigicultFebruary 9, 2016

Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium. Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies.... READ MORE...

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Silicon Valley. I signori del silicio, Evgeny Morozov

Redazione DigicultFebruary 9, 2016

For several years, companies in Silicon Valley promise prosperity, equality and a new society in which everything will be shareable and accessible. Surpassing the old logic of the market. But is this really so?... READ MORE...

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Systems. Edited by Edward A. Shanken

Redazione DigicultJune 25, 2015

Systems traces a radical shift in sofware aesthetics from its roots in mid twentieth-century general systems theory, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence to the cutting-edge science of the present. The collected texts examine the connections between advanced technological systems, our bodies and minds... READ MORE...

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Networks. Edited by Lars Bang Larsen

Redazione DigicultJune 18, 2015

In the 1960s began a cultural shift from the modernist grid and its determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network, presenting art with new possibilities.... READ MORE...

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Dysfunction and Decentralization in New Media Art

Redazione DigicultJune 16, 2015

Dysfunction and Decentralization. When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude.... READ MORE...

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Softimage

Redazione DigicultJune 11, 2015

With today’s digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. Softimage by Hoelzl and Marie.... READ MORE...

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The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age

Redazione DigicultMay 21, 2015

In The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age, Mel Alexenberg offers a vision of a postdigital future that reveals a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture.... READ MORE...

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Critical Studies in Art and Design Education

Redazione DigicultApril 28, 2015

Rod Taylor has done much to promote and develop critical studies in the UK, this publication serves to highlight some of the more pressing issues of concern to art and design teachers in different aspects.... READ MORE...

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Art, Technology, Consciousness

Redazione DigicultApril 23, 2015

These essays address current theories of consciousness and subjective experience, embracing new ideas from the art and sciences alongside more spiritual aspects of human existence.... READ MORE...

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Crime and the Media

Redazione DigicultApril 16, 2015

Crime and the Media brings together key debates within cultural studies, media studies, criminology and sociology on the relationship between the media and crime in a postmodern society.... READ MORE...

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Media Freedom

Redazione DigicultApril 14, 2015

Media Freedom. The Contradictions of Communications in the Age of Modernity. People believe that the freedom of the media is an essential prerequisite of a modern democracy.... READ MORE...

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The Internet Does Not Exist

Redazione DigicultApril 9, 2015

The internet does not exist. Maybe it did exist only a short time ago, but now it only remains as a blur, a cloud, a friend, a deadline, a redirect, or a 404. If it ever existed, we couldn’t see it.... READ MORE...

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The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud

Redazione DigicultApril 7, 2015

The music industry is going through a period of immense change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of music in the age of computers and the Internet?... READ MORE...

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Plants, Androids and Operator

Redazione DigicultMarch 26, 2015

Taking up Fèlix Guattari’s challenge, the Lab aimed to combine social and media practices into collective assemblages of enunciation in order to confront social monoformity.... READ MORE...

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