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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994
Winkler
Hartmut Winkler, Switching - Zapping, Verlag Jürgen Häusser, Darmstadt 1991
Zapping is either looked down upon or disapproved of outright. The bourgeoisie sees it as a danger to the public health, a consumer illness to which children are especially vulnerable. Manifold...
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book: Arns, Inke
Ostranenie
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994
Ostranenie
Catalogue of the 1. international video festival at the Bauhaus, Dessau,
Viktor Sklovski writes in his essay Art as Process (1916): //The aim of art is to convey a sense of the object, to make us see it, not to re-cognize it. The process of art is the process of...
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book: Friedrich Kittler 1 Jan 1993
Draculas Vermächtnis
Technische Schriften
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994
Kittler
Friedrich Kittler, Draculas Vermächtnis, Reclam Verlag Leipzig, 1993
The remarkable science called media history, should have a preference for technologies that read or write. This is the program of Germany's most important media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Richard Wright 1 Jan 1994
Doom
Id Software, Texas USA
In the last Woody Allen movie there is a scene where he and Diane Keaton are leaving the Lincoln Opera House before the end of the performance. Woody explains I don't like to listen to too much...
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Doom
ID Software, Texas, USA First part shareware, rest 37,95 pounds Transend Shareware +44 0274 622228(UK) Min. config. IBM-compatible 386 or higher, 4 Mb, ram, VGA
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1994
The Satanic Verses as a Minimal Movie
Pentiums, PowerPC chips and cd-roms have become the stars of the multimedia spectacle. But what if all you have is a Macintosh PowerBook 145, black-and-white, and still want to take part in this new...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Geert-Jan Strengholt 1 Jan 1998
Prelinger
Our Secret century
Slowly but surely, everyone has become accustomed to the frequent use of 'found footage', often obscure film material being reapplied in the new context of a feature film, music video or TV ad. The...
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book: Rick Prelinger
Our Secret century
A series curated and hosted by Rick Prelinger Volume 1-12 released by The Voyager Company 1995-97, ISBN (1+2) 1 55940 663 1, (3+4) 155940 664 X, (5+6) 1 55940 664 5, (7+8) 1 55940 666 6, Mac/Windows...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998
Ford, Glymore, Hayes
Android Epistemology
Forty-six years ago, Alain Turing opened his article Computing machinery and intelligence by contemplating whether or not machines can think. At that time, this consideration must have seemed radical...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Arjen Mulder, Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1992
Introduction to Static Literature
Modern information society exists by the grace of durably preserved, easily movable data; correspondingly, accuracy of notation and precise coordinates of storage are of the greatest importance.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Adilkno, Bilwet 1 Jan 1992
vol. 7#1 1/0 Issue
Hardware Software Wetware
According to Adilkno, the human being is no longer an individual in the digital era, but wetware, a 'wet bag' hanging on the machine. Coupled to hard- and software, the mind voyages while the body...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1992
AI !(2)
Back to Networks
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Mediamatic Magazine vol. 8#2/3 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1995
From Home to Home: the Escape Route
Come with me, take me home! I have no home. Fix your typewriter. If you fix your typewriter you'll have your home.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Peter Fend 1 Jan 1994
NEWSROOM AMSTERDAM®
Promoting our Lady of Victory, for a New Holy Roman Empire
After portraying a foreign world tennis champion in most unflattering terms, creating a mass-media climate conducive to her stabbing, the German press has proceeded to foster the elevation of their...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1998
Mari Soppela's Family Files
Up until the 80s, home movies were made on celluloid.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1998
Hello, I must be going
These are the thoughts and reflections of Arjen Mulder, the successful media theoretician who, mirrored in William Burroughs' work, recognizes himself as a writer.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Stephen Perrella 1 Jan 1995
Being@Home as Hypersurface Architecture
As an alternative project to the moo inventions that Mediamatic suggests for this issue, Stephen Perrella posits an alternative space called Hypersurface, that resists being defined in terms of...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol. 8#2/3 Errki Huhtamo 1 Jan 1995
Armchair Traveller on the Ford of Jordan
The Home, the Stereoscope and the Virtual Voyager
The general panorama of the world. It introduces to us scenes known only from the imperfect relations of travellers. By our fireside we have the advantage of examining them, without being exposed to...
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book: William Gibson 1 Jan 1996
Idoru
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1993
The Least Materiality
It is me. It is only me.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Jouke Kleerebezem 1 Jan 1993
The Exuberant Publicness of the Promised World
A limitless world seems once again within the grasp of an equally limitless desire. The dumb wish for a world in which we are at home dominates our thoughts and works; it is the desire for a world...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker 1 Jan 1993
Excremental TV
Excremental tv: Sacrificial tv, Disciplinary tv, Surveillance-tv, Crash-tv.
We live today in the age of excremental tv. No longer tv under the old sociological sign of accumulation with its coherent division of tv-aesthetics into strategy (official culture) and tactics...