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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 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994
We no longer collect the Carrier but the…
Interview with Tjebbe van Tijen
In Amsterdam, the archives of whoever ventures into the field of politics and culture will sooner or later end up with Tjebbe van Tijen. For many people he is the embodiment of 'storage mania'. How...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994
Heidegger On-Line
Interview with Michael Heim
Michael Heim has been called the 'philosopher of cyberspace'. Translator of Heidegger and author of 'Electric Language, A Philosophical Study in Word Processing', he has organized various American...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1992
The Archeology of Computer Assemblage
The 'Ars Combinatoria' of Berlin philosopher-engineer Werner K
The Berlin philosopher and programmer Werner Künzel has hatched an ambitious plan to develop a genealogy of computer theory, written in 'the spirit of philosophy'. In the five books he has published...
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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 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1992
Famous Artists School, Famous Writer Tool
or: the hankering after a configurated system for the Apple and other rhetorical reflections
In Mediamatic 6#1, Paul Groot reported on his first experiences with a word processor and his struggle with the McHugh. As a sequel to these first impressions, he will review here MicroSoft's Word5...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 David D'Heilly 1 Jan 1994
Children's Hour
Tanaka Kei'ichi is the maker of Marketing Heaven a program that used the deceptive form of an 'infotainment' current events program to resolutely expose the very structure of commercialism in...
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Book: Alex Adriaansens 1 Jan 1992
Book for the Unstable Media
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Book: William Gibson 1 Jan 1996
Idoru
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Willem Velthoven, Dirk Van Weelden, Alfred Birnbaum 1 Jan 1993
World Articles
This issue of Mediamatic was supposed to be the World Issue. A Mediamatic about the whole world… This proved, to say the least, very ambitious… That's why on the next pages, we present to...
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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 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1993
Günther Walraff in Transylvania
German journalist, activist and master of metamorphosis Günther Walraff revealed to Mediamatic the details of a project that foundered recently. Walraff was to live under cover in Ceausescu's Rumania
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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...
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De Unie
Het Pierre Bayle-debat
- het vermogen van de televisiekritiek14Mar 2002Debat met Hans Maarten van den Brink, Marijn van der Jagt, Maarten Huygen en Cornald Maas over de vraag of we aan televisiekritiek hetzelfde belang mogen toeschrijven als andere vormen van...
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Book: Benjamin Woolley 1 Jan 1992
Virtual Worlds
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality
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Book: R.U. Sirius, Queen Mu, Rudy Rucker 1 Jan 1992
Mondo 2000 A User's Guide to the New Edge
Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Wetware, Designer Aphrodisiacs, Artificial Life, Techno-Erotic Paganism
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Book: Brenda Laurel 10 Sep 1993
Computers as Theatre
This book presents a new theory of human-computer activity. Building on Aristotle's analysis of the form and structure of drama, Laurel shows how similiar principles can help us understand what...
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Book: George P. Landow, Stephan Porombka 1 Jan 1992
Hypertext
The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology
Landow's book is an attempt to understand the possibilities and consequences of the hypertext medium in terms of the philosophical and literary-critical theories of Barthes, Foucault, Derrida and...
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Book: Donna Haraway 1 Jan 1996
Modest _Witness @ Second _ Millennium.
FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience
This book explores the roles of stories, figures, dreams, theories, facts, delusions, advertising, institutions, economic arrangements, publishing practices, scientific advances, and politics in...
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Mercedez Bunz 1 Jan 2001
Extensions, Boundaries & Double Crossings
Or: We Don't Trust Anybody. Shadowing Theory and Technology Constructing Subjects
Bunz's text will focus on the different ways in which the word 'and' formats the relation between reality - which means us, the humans - and the computer. Her ambition is to demonstrate that the 'and'...
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De Balie
Net.kunst en kunstkritiek
25Jan 2002Debat onder leiding van Josephine Bosma over de vraag of net.kunst een kunstvorm is als alle andere en dus onderdeel is van reguliere kunstkritiek. Deelnemers aan het debat: Frederic Madre(F), Tilman...
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Nederlands Foto Instituut
Trade
13Jan 2002- De wereld van de hedendaagse handel3Mar 2002Tentoonstelling over de vervaardiging en distributie van goederen, data en informatie middels foto's, diaprojecties, videofilms en internetprojecten. Verbeeld door ruim 150 werken van 60...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1994
Some of my best Friends are Dogs
The Bozman Simplex Syndrome of the tv commercial, or how I taught my dog to get used to tinned food.
'He leaves it all at the wrong houses.' Mr. Winkle looked perplexed, and Bob Sawyer and his friend laughed.