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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Alfred Birnbaum, David D'Heilly 1 Jan 1991
Fexy Facts
Just when you thought it was safe to leave the machine on all night
Surely everyone by now is well acquainted with the I-told-you-not-to-call-me-here cellular phone and instant-erase electronic personal organiser and other wonders of postindustrial living. You might...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Volker Grassmuck 1 Jan 1991
Otaku
Japanese Kids colonize the Realm of information and Media
The rise of the Otaku generation is one of the most striking phenomena of contemporary Japan. In the last Mediamatic Issue (volume 5#3), Gabin Itoh, editor of the Japanese magazine Log In, already...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol5#4 Jorinde Seijdel 1 Jan 1991
Schrink!
The first charter flights to the Moon had better begin before too long, because the earth is suffering from shrinkage; without actually shrinking.
It's becoming less and less extensive, and may wind up by being invisible. And why shouldn't it? The planet already had a whole history of metamorphoses; it was once flat, then round, and if it's now...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol. 5#4 Marijn van der Jagt 1 Jan 1991
House
A journey through the Space of Music
Rolling on the delirious surge of house music Marijn van der Jagt takes us via spiralling movements to the point where bodies and individual boundaries merge into an amorphous mass, the stroboscopic...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Bilwet 1 Jan 1991
Normal Media
The word that made a man out of ape and killed the ape in the process keeps man an animal the way we like to see him - William Burroughs.
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1991
Cézanne's cataract
The navel of the earth, in classical antiquity situated in Delphi where it is still on view, was in this century transformed, in form and content, into a mountain in the South of France. Freud ans...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1991
In a vacuum of meenings
Straub/Huillet and Cézanne: a film
There is undoubtedly an unbridgeable gap between the rigid morality of the rhetorical means of Straub and Huillet and Cézannes painter’s dialectic, used in pursuit of an invisibility.
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Rob Perrée 1 Jan 1991
Water Video
On the occasion of this special Otaku/ Radical Boredom issue we asked an international expert in the field to compile a list of water art-video’s. Here it is! complete with date, nationality and a...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Sonja Snoek 1 Jan 1991
Visual culture as alibi
The Traditional Love Stories of Atom Egoyan
In the works of the Canadian/Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, film and video are constantly intermingled with each other.
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Lex Wouterloot 1 Jan 1991
Le Monde Diplomatique
publication mensuelle, 5 rue Antoine-Bourdelle, 75501 Paris Cedex 15, French text, pp. 32, FF 17
Who wants yesterday's papers?
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1991
Catalogue Ars Electronica, Volume 2, Virtuele…
Peter Weibel (ed) Veritas Verlag (pub) Linz 1990 ISBN 385-329-855-9, German & English text, 364 pp.
Earlier this year, 1990, the Festival für Kunst, Technologie und Geseüschaft (Festival for Art. Technology and Society) was held in Linz, Austria, under the title Ars Electronica.
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1991
Theorie der neuen Medien - Norbert Bolz
Raben Verlag (pub) Munich 1990 ISBN 3-922696-67-8, German text, pp. 167, DM 24
In a time in which instructions for use have taken the place of book learning, a situation in which scribes express their disturbance at the question: What is media? might seem paradoxical.
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Maurice Nio 1 Jan 1991
Mondo 2000 #2 Summer 1990
Fun City Megamedia (pub) Berkely 1990 English text, pp. 160, $5,95
The first thing which strikes one upon leafing through this hyperhip magazine about 'virtual reality and high tech culture are the advertisements for ‘mind-expanding’ products: FracTools, Super Blue
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Eveline Lubbers 1 Jan 1991
Von der Bürokratie zur Telekratie Rumänien im…
Merwe Verlag/Peter Weibel (pub) Berlin 1990 ISBN 3-88396-007-2, German text, pp. 168 DM 16
The new successors to power race to the studios to announcethe formation of the National Salvation Front, followed by non-stop 24 hour long broadcasts which break every rule in Western televisions...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1991
Television/Revolution, Das Ultimatum des Bildes…
Jonas Verlag (pub) Marburg 1990 ISBN 3-89445-100-9, German text, pp 156, DM 38
The revolution shall be televised.
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Veelen IJsbrand Van 1 Jan 1991
What a Wonderful World! Music Videos in…
Groninger Museum/Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening (pub) Groningen 1990 ISBN 90-71691-14-4, Dutch & Englisch text, pp. 212, FL 79
Of course, to accommodate a project around the music video phenomenon there could be no other place in The Netherlands but the Groninger Museum.
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Wim Nijenhuis 1 Jan 1991
L'Inertie Polaire - Paul Virilio
Christian Bourgeois (pub) Paris 1990 ISBN 2-267-00887-4, French text, pp. 167, F 80
The final development stage of mankind will turn the resident into a sitter and the final vehicle of transport technology will be his seat.
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Errki Huhtamo 1 Jan 1991
Rock around the Clock Music Television
Methuen (pub) New York/London 1987 ISBN 0-416-33370-7, English text, pp. 196, 6,95 pounds
One of the leading TV scholars in the United States, E. Ann Kaplan is also the writer of the first book-length study of music videos.