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1 Jan 2002
Peggy Ahwesh
artist
Peggy Ahwesh creates a kind of renegade arte povera ethnography of the everyday, approaching culturally complex issues and individuals with disarming simplicity and intelligence, and with risk-taking...
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Christian Boltanski
artist
In the beginning of his artistic work, Christian Boltanski (b. 1944 in Paris) approached painting in an autodidactic way, mainly concerned with historical themes.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 6#4 Thomas M Macho 1 Jan 1992
The Art of Pause
a music-ontological meditation
Ein großer Kunstgriff der Natur war es, das Leben durch den Schlaf gleichsam zu unterbrechen.
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Book: Peter Sloterdijk 1 Jan 1993
Medien - Zeit
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Book: Howard Rheingold 1 Jan 2000
The Virtual Community
Homesteading on the Electric Frontier
Cyberculture authority Howard Rheingold was the first to write about online communities in this style that is part-travelogue and part-anthropological guide. This groundbreaking classic explores the...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994
The Virtual Community
By Howard Rheingold
Slowly but surely, the 'personal' computer is losing its image of autistic machine. One no longer needs to stare into the abyss of one's own hard disk and can enter into social relationships that go...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994
Heim
Michael Heim, The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, Oxford University Press, New York 1993
Michael Heim, author of Electric Language, A Philosophical Study in Word Processing (1987), is now known as the 'philosopher of cyberspace'. He has organised various conferences about virtual reality...
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Book: Michael Heim 1 Jan 1993
The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality
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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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Book: Friedrich Kittler 1 Jan 1993
Draculas Vermächtnis
Technische Schriften
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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 Florian Brody 1 Jan 1995
My Home is my Memory is my Home
Is my home where my heart is or where my computer is? Is home where I want to be or where I am?
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Manuel De Landa 1 Jan 1995
Homes: Meshwork or Hierarchy?
How do homes happen? Are they planned, as we have intuitively tended to believe, or is the process a more messy one? Drawing on biological, cognitive and economic models, De Landa believes that the...
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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 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 Adilkno 1 Jan 1995
Electronic Loneliness
Change the world; stay home. This is the adage of the social ergonomists who have distilled a polity out of the user-friendliness of consumer electronics. Having definitively finished pondering...
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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 Lex Wouterloot 1 Jan 1995
At Home in Prison
For fifty years, Eduardo Taguas lived in Spanish boarding schools, reform schools and prisons. He was fifty years old when he was set free.
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Book: Avital Ronell 1 Jan 1991
Crack Wars
Literature, Addiction, Mania
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Book: Walter Ong 1 Jan 1988
Orality and Literacy
The Technologizing of the World
Ong pulls together two decades of work by himself and others on the differences between primary oral cultures, those that do not have a system of writing, and chirographic (i.e., writing) cultures to...
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A Eureka Moment
A EUREKA moment; a sudden insight that changes the way you look at yourself, the world around you, and your place in it
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Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 2001
The Synthetic Life Experience Project
Wishes You Good Luck!
Welcome to this happy farewell gathering. Tomorrow a bus will bring you to the airport down in the valley. Before your departure, take your time in saying goodbye to these buildings and gardens. Take...
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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'...