Nilo Casares: Del Net.Art al Web-Art 2.0 (2009) [Spanish]
Filed under book | Tags: · internet art, net.art, web 2.0, web art
Nilo Casares, escritor, comisario crítico de arte y promotor de arte digital y arte público. “Lo que sigue recoge una conferencia dictada en varias ocasiones sobre el arte digital (sin pretender alcanzar la altura del “Walking” de Henry David Thoureau, incluso la he dictado en modo ‘abducción digital’ bajo un ambiente construido por el artista Francis Naranjo para mi tortura y desaparición en escena) que espero seguir paseando por ahí.
A ella siguen artículos publicados en distintos periódicos, desde que la prensa habitual recoge las cosas que pasan con el net.art (algo sobre cuya existencia mi torpeza sólo consigue llamar su atención en el tardío 1999). A través de los artículos se pueden seguir los intereses que aparecen entre los net.artistas de hoy y cómo sus obras se encaminan hacia dos lugares. Primero, el reencuentro con la físicidad, en una reversión de la sentencia que alumbró la Web 1.0, recogida por el lema de los átomos a los bits de Nicholas Negroponte, y que hoy es una mezcla de átomos y bits que refleja mejor la realidad de las cosas. Después, los resultados facilitados por la actual Red Social para imbricar las obras en un contexto más amplío que el estrecho club del net.art de los noventa.
A veces los enlaces apuntados están muertos o alguna obra ya no existe, lo que resalta la elevadísima mortandad del arte digital destacada en la conferencia que inicia este libra Sin otro ánimo que el no aburrir, sálveme el lector de cualquier pretensión de originalidad, que lo dicho por mí seguro ya fue enunciado por otros.
Publisher Institució Alfons el Magnànim, Valencia, Año 2009
ISBN:978-84-7822-549-1
158 páginas
Rosa Menkman: Glitch Studies Manifesto (2010)
Filed under pamphlet | Tags: · art, glitch, noise
Rosa Menkman has consolidated numerous facets of ephemeral glitch culture and stitched together an exciting document that is both an artistic call to arms and a move to patch “glitch studies” into several recent philosophical movements (eg. bending/breaking as metaphor for différance). As any manifesto should be, the text is charged with energy and numerous digs at the status quo.
Comment (0)Kevin Kelly: New Rules for the New Economy. 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · economy, networks, technology
Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the traditional wisdom of the industrial world.
Succinct and memorable, New Rules explains why these powerful laws are already hardwired into the new economy, and how they play out in all kinds of business — both low and high tech — all over the world. More than an overview of new economic principles, it prescribes clear and specific strategies for success in the network economy. For any worker, CEO, or middle manager, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy.
Publisher Penguin Books, 1999
ISBN 014028060X, 9780140280609
Length 179 pages
Kevin Kelly: Out of Control. The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (1994)
Filed under book | Tags: · biology, chaos theory, complex systems, cybernetics, emergence, evolution, hyperreality, money, self-organization, simulation, technology
Out of Control is a summary of what we know about self-sustaining systems, both living ones such as a tropical wetland, or an artificial one, such as a computer simulation of our planet. The last chapter of the book, “The Nine Laws of God,” is a distillation of the nine common principles that all life-like systems share. The major themes of the book are:
* As we make our machines and institutions more complex, we have to make them more biological in order to manage them.
* The most potent force in technology will be artificial evolution. We are already evolving software and drugs instead of engineering them.
* Organic life is the ultimate technology, and all technology will improve towards biology.
* The main thing computers are good for is creating little worlds so that we can try out the Great Questions. Online communities let us ask the question “what is a democracy; what do you need for it?” by trying to wire a democracy up, and re-wire it if it doesn’t work. Virtual reality lets us ask “what is reality?” by trying to synthesize it. And computers give us room to ask “what is life?” by providing a universe in which to create computer viruses and artificial creatures of increasing complexity. Philosophers sitting in academies used to ask the Great Questions; now they are asked by experimentalists creating worlds.
* As we shape technology, it shapes us. We are connecting everything to everything, and so our entire culture is migrating to a “network culture” and a new network economics.
* In order to harvest the power of organic machines, we have to instill in them guidelines and self-governance, and relinquish some of our total control.
Publisher Addison-Wesley, 1994
ISBN 0201577933, 9780201577938
Length 521 pages
Leo Beranek: Riding the Waves. A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, arpanet, biography, engineering, music, sound, television
Leo Beranek, an Iowa farm boy who became a Renaissance man—scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author—has lived life in constant motion. His seventy-year career, through the most tumultuous and transformative years of the last century, has always been propelled by the sheer exhilaration of trying something new. In Riding the Waves, Leo Beranek tells his story.
Beranek’s life changed direction on a summer day in 1935 when he stopped to help a motorist with a flat tire. The driver just happened to be a former Harvard professor of engineering, who guided the young Beranek toward a full scholarship at Harvard’s graduate school of engineering. Beranek went on to be one of the world’s leading experts on acoustics. He became Director of Harvard’s Electro-Acoustic Laboratory, where he invented the Hush-A-Phone—a telephone accessory that began the chain of regulatory challenges and lawsuits that led ultimately to the breakup of the Bell Telephone monopoly in the 1980s. Beranek moved to MIT to be a professor and Technical Director of its Acoustics Laboratory, then left academia to manage the acoustical consulting firm Bolt Beranek and Newman. Known for his work in noise control and concert acoustics, Beranek devised the world’s largest muffler to quiet jet noise and served as acoustical consultant for concert halls around the world (including the Tanglewood Music Shed, the storied summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra). As president of BBN, he assembled the software group that invented both the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, and e-mail.
In the 1970s, Beranek risked his life savings to secure the license to operate a television station; he turned Channel 5 in Boston into one of the country’s best, then sold it to Metromedia in 1982 for the highest price ever paid up to that time for a broadcast station. “One central lesson I’ve learned is the value of risk-taking and of moving on when risks turn into busts or odds look better elsewhere,” Beranek writes. Riding the Waves is a testament to the boldness, diligence, and intelligence behind Beranek’s lifetime of extraordinary achievement.
Publisher MIT Press, 2008
Volume 30 of Current studies in linguistics
ISBN 0262026295, 9780262026291
Length 235 pages
Jean Noël Jeanneney: Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View From Europe (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · archives, google, internet, library, politics, search
The recent announcement that Google will digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long-dreamed-of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infringement and unanticipated effects on the business of research and publishing.
Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of France’s Bibliothèque Nationale, here takes aim at what he sees as a far more troubling aspect of Google’s Library Project: its potential to misrepresent—and even damage—the world’s cultural heritage. In this impassioned work, Jeanneney argues that Google’s unsystematic digitization of books from a few partner libraries and its reliance on works written mostly in English constitute acts of selection that can only extend the dominance of American culture abroad. This danger is made evident by a Google book search the author discusses here—one run on Hugo, Cervantes, Dante, and Goethe that resulted in just one non-English edition, and a German translation of Hugo at that. An archive that can so easily slight the masters of European literature—and whose development is driven by commercial interests—cannot provide the foundation for a universal library.
As a leading librarian, Jeanneney remains enthusiastic about the archival potential of the Web. But he argues that the short-term thinking characterized by Google’s digital repository must be countered by long-term planning on the part of cultural and governmental institutions worldwide—a serious effort to create a truly comprehensive library, one based on the politics of inclusion and multiculturalism.
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2007
ISBN 0226395774, 9780226395777
Length 92 pages
Laura Denardis: Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · arpanet, intellectual property, internet, internet governance, open standards, politics
The Internet has reached a critical point. The world is running out of Internet addresses. There is a finite supply of approximately 4.3 billion Internet Protocol (IP) addresses—the unique binary numbers required for every exchange of information over the Internet—within the Internet’s prevailing technical architecture (IPv4). In the 1990s the Internet standards community identified the potential depletion of these addresses as a crucial design concern and selected a new protocol (IPv6) that would expand the number of Internet addresses exponentially—to 340 undecillion addresses. Despite a decade of predictions about imminent global conversion, IPv6 adoption has barely begun. IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4, and the ultimate success of IPv6 depends on a critical mass of IPv6 deployment, even among users who don’t need it, or on technical workarounds that could in turn create a new set of concerns.
Protocol Politics examines what’s at stake politically, economically, and technically in the selection and adoption of a new Internet protocol. Laura DeNardis’s key insight is that protocols are political. IPv6 serves as a case study for how protocols more generally are intertwined with socioeconomic and political order. IPv6 intersects with provocative topics including Internet civil liberties, U.S. military objectives, globalization, institutional power struggles, and the promise of global democratic freedoms. DeNardis offers recommendations for Internet standards governance, based not only on technical concerns but on principles of openness and transparency, and examines the global implications of looming Internet address scarcity versus the slow deployment of the new protocol designed to solve this problem.
Publisher MIT Press, 2009
Series: Information Revolution and Global Politics
ISBN 0262042576, 9780262042574
Length 272 pages
B. Jack Copeland (ed.): The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life. Plus the Secrets of Enigma (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · artificial intelligence, artificial life, computing, history of computing, logic, mathematics, philosophy, turing machine
Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and WWII codebreaker, is one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad, non-specialist readership. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary computational theory, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life all spring from this ground-breaking work, which is also rich in philosophical and logical insight. An introduction by leading Turing expert Jack Copeland provides the background and guides the reader through the selection.
Publisher Oxford University Press, 2004
ISBN 0198250800, 9780198250807
Length 613 pages
Milica Z. Bookman, Aleksandra S. Bookman: Economics in Film and Fiction (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · cinema, economics, fiction, film
Economics is everywhere. It’s in business. It’s in government. It’s in our personal lives. Now, a ground-breaking textbook supplement brings this reality to the classroom: Economics in Film and Fiction.
The book uses both contemporary and classic film and literature to illustrate 33 fundamental concepts in introductory economics. Designed for use in introductory economics courses, the clearly organized text brings both sides of the lectern closer together through real life illustration of economic concepts in such favorites as Jaws, Legally Blonde, Casablanca, The Great Gatsby, Scarlet Letter, and The Da Vinci Code.
Each economic topic is described and terms are defined. A plot synopsis of a film or book sets the stage for each discussion. Using a detailed scene description, the authors then show how the scene illustrates the concept under study. Classroom discussion and assignments are facilitated through a series of questions that probe deeper.
Publisher R&L Education, 2008
ISBN 1578869625, 9781578869626
Length 207 pages
Terry Bolas: Screen Education: From Film Appreciation to Media Studies (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · cinema, education, film, film theory, mass media, media studies
Film and media studies now attract large numbers of students in schools, colleges and universities. However the setting up of these courses came after many decades of pioneering work at the educational margins in the post-war period. Bolas’ account focuses particularly on the voluntary efforts of activists in the Society for Education in Film and Television and on that Society’s interchanging relationship with the British Film Institute’s Education Department. It draws on recent interviews with many of the individuals who contributed to the raising of the status of film, TV and media study. Through detailed examination of the scattered but surviving documentary record, the author seeks to challenge versions of the received history.
Publisher Intellect Books, 2009
ISBN 1841502375, 9781841502373
Length 384 pages
Marshall Long: Architectural Acoustics (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, architecture, sound
Architectural Acoustics presents a comprehensive technical overview of the field at a level suitable for working practitioners as well as advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate architecture or engineering course. The book is structured as a logical progression through acoustic interactions. Beginning with an architectural history, it reviews the fundamentals of acoustics, human perception and reaction to sound, acoustic noise measurements and noise metrics, and environmental noise. It then moves into wave acoustics, sound and solid surfaces, sound in enclosed spaces, sound transmission loss, sound transmission in buildings, vibration and vibration isolation, noise transmission in floor systems, noise in mechanical systems, and sound attenuation in ducts. Chapters on specific design problems follow including treatment of multifamily dwellings, office buildings, rooms for speech, sound reinforcement systems, rooms for music, multipurpose rooms, auditoriums, sanctuaries, and studios and listening rooms. While providing a thorough overview of acoustics, it also includes the theory of loudspeaker systems and sound system modeling as well as an in-depth presentation of computer modeling, ray tracing and auralization. It will be particularly beneficial for architects and engineers working in fields where speech intelligibility, music appreciation, and noise isolation are critical.
Publisher Elsevier, 2006
Series: Applications of Modern Acoustics
ISBN 0124555519, 9780124555518
Length 844 pages
Naomi Sakr (ed.): Women and Media in The Middle East. Power Through Self-expression (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · civil society, feminism, film, gender, islam, journalism, literacy, mass media, middle east, public broadcasting
Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women filmmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah’s TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender boundaries have been erected or crossed.
Publisher I.B.Tauris, 2004
Volume 41 of Library of modern Middle East studies
ISBN 1850435456, 9781850435457
Length 248 pages
Emmanuel Goldstein: The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · computing, cybercrime, hacker culture, hacking, security, technology
Since 1984, the quarterly magazine 2600 has provided fascinating articles for readers who are curious about technology. Find the best of the magazine’s writing in Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey, a collection of the strongest, most interesting, and often most controversial articles covering 24 years of changes in technology, all from a hacker’s perspective. Included are stories about the creation of the infamous tone dialer “red box” that allowed hackers to make free phone calls from payphones, the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the insecurity of modern locks.
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-29419-2
888 pages
World-Information: Special IP Edition & IP City Edition (2003, 2005)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · democracy, digital human rights, human rights, media activism, politics, technology
World-Information.Org is a trans-national cultural intelligence provider, a collaborative effort of artists, scientists and technicians. It is a practical example for a technical and contextual environment for cultural production and an independent platform of critical media intelligence. Through artistic and scientific exploration of information and communication technologies World-Information.Org disseminates an understanding of their cultural, societal and political implications, and fosters future cultural practice. World-Information.Org is an agent of digital democratisation and the pursuit of digital human rights. Enlightening the opportunities, challenges and risks of information and communication technology, World-Information.Org provides information necessary for a democratic development of society, culture and politics.
Special IP Edition
World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, 10-12 December 2003
Editors: Eva Pressl, Wolfgang Suetzl
Concept: Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder
Production: Wolfgang Brunner
Published by World-Information.Org, Vienna
Published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 License.
IP City Edition
World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, 16-18 November 2005
World-Information City, Bangalore, 14-20 November 2005
Editors: Wolfgang Suetzl, Christine Mayer
Concept: Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder
Production: Andrea Ressi
Published by World-Information.Org, Insitute for New Culture Technologies/t0 Netbase, Vienna
Published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Rasmus Fleischer: Det Postdigitala Manifestet. Hur musik äger rum (2009) [Swedish]
Filed under pamphlet | Tags: · copyleft, copyright, file-sharing, music, p2p, postdigital, postdigital culture
Upptäckandet av ny musik går idag oändligt mycket snabbare än före internet. Vi känner till mycket mer musik, fyller fickorna med mängder musik som för inte länge sedan vore ofattbara. Men hur är det möjligt att välja? Hur är det med vår förmåga att sättas i rörelse av musik?
Det senaste decenniets digitalisering har skapat helt nya villkor för vårt förhållande till musik. Fram till i slutet av 1990-talet kunde skivbolagen och etermedierna fortfarande reglera utbudet. Sedan sprack cd-bubblan och musiklandskapet svämmade över. Idag är musikutbudet oöverblickbart.
I Det postdigitala manifestet sonderar Rasmus Fleischer överflödets terräng. Den utmaning som vi ställs inför i den postdigitala kulturen är inte att producera ännu fler låtar, utan att gallra i överflödet. Någon måste välja. Detta ofrånkomliga urval aktualiserar frågor om makt och ansvar. Musik är inte ljudfiler på en hårddisk eller noter på ett blad, utan en form av samvaro och gemenskap.
Kopimi ^^ Rasmus Fleischer 2009
Publisher Ink bokförlag, Stockholm
ISBN: 978-91-973-586-9-9
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