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Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
Norman M. Klein
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Arie Altena 1 Oca 2002
Rambling Thoughts on Reality Engineering
Introduction of the symposium Reality Engineering and the Computer
How could you deal with the internet, master-infrastructure of our world, and totally escape from contemporary society? It's impossible. As soon as you think twice about computer technology, you end...
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Lev Manovich 1 Oca 2000
Principles of New Media (2)
4. Variability A new media object is not something fixed once and for all but can exist in different, potentially infinite, versions. This is another consequence of numerical coding of media...
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Lev Manovich 1 Oca 2000
Principles of New Media (1)
The identity of media has changed even more dramatically. Below I summarize some of the key differences between old and new media.
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De Unie
Kunstkritiek in de 21ste eeuw
12Haz 2002De Nigeriaanse denker, dichter en schilder Olu Oguibe geeft een lezing over de plaats en betekenis van kunst in niet-westerse culturen.
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book: Herbert Marshall McLuhan 1 Oca 1951
The Mechanical Bride
Industrial Man
A pioneering study by Marshall McLuhan in the field now known as popular culture.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Geert Lovink 1 Oca 1994
McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Industrial Man, The Vanguard Press, New York 1951
Few people know that Marshall McLuhan's first book, published in 1951, is completely devoted to the phenomenon of advertising. Although popular in the 1960s, The Mechanical Bride is difficult to...
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book: Arthur Kroker 1 Oca 1993
Spasm
Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Geert Lovink 1 Oca 1994
Kroker
Arthur Kroker, Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh, New world Perspectives, Montréal 1993
Bruce Sterling remarks with surprise in his foreword to Spasm that Arthur Kroker's theories aren't pure nonsense; all those speculations and word games actually mean something.
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book: Camille Paglia 1 Oca 1993
Sex, Art and American Culture
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Jane Szita 1 Oca 1994
Paglia
Camille Paglia, Sex, Art and American Culture, Viking, London 1993
Two and a half years ago, nobody had ever heard of Camille Paglia. A 40-something academic no-hoper, sacked from preppy Bennington college after a troubled eight-year stint culminating in the assault...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Harrie Roumen 1 Oca 1994
Fry
Tony Fry, Rua TV?: Heidegger and Televisual, Power Publications, Sydney 1993
Tony Fry, teacher at the Power Institute of Fine Arts in Sydney, organized a course about the televisual in 1990. According to Fry, such a course was needed because Western intelligentsia consider tv...
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book: Tony Fry 1 Oca 1993
RUA TV?
Heidegger and the Televisual
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 6#4 Geert Lovink 1 Oca 1992
Kroker
Arthur Kroker, The Possessed Individual: Technology and Postmodernity, New World Perspectives 1992
In modern writings about art and technology, a reference to French theorists would seem almost unavoidable. Arthur Kroker, the Canadian 'panic' theoretician, has made a brief tour of well-known...
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book: Arthur Kroker 1 Oca 1992
The Possessed Individual, technology and…
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book: David Murray, Daniel Sherman, Irit Rogoff
Museums
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Mediamatic Magazine vol. 8#2/3 Jorinde Seijdel 1 Oca 1995
Murray
David Murray, Daniel Sherman & Irit Rogoff, Museum Culture: Their History and their Use, James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow 1904
A Norway house, built of beams without mortar or stone; shoes and sandals from Russia, Siam and Egypt; the skin of a man dressed as parchment; a drinking cup of the skull of a Moor killed in the...
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book: Peter Sloterdijk 1 Oca 1993
Medien - Zeit
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book: Jean Baudrillard 1 Oca 1994
Die Illusion des Endes
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Mediamatic Magazine 8#2/3 Geert Lovink 1 Oca 1995
Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard, L'illusion de la fin, Édition Galilée, Paris 1992
Dietmar Kamper says in an interview with Rudolf Maresch: Jean Baudrillard is an extremely conservative thinker who certainly does not betray the ideals of the bourgeois revolution. He observes with...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Bas Raijmakers 1 Oca 1995
Taylor, Saarinen
Mark Taylor & Esa Saarinen, Imagologies: Mediaphilosophy, Routledge, 1994
Now that the realisation is sinking in for more and more publishers that we are in a grey area between the printed book and electronic publications, conspicuous hybrids are appearing on the market.
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book: Mark Taylor, Esa Saarinen 29 Mar 1994
Imagologies: Mediaphilosophy
When the world is wired, nothing remains the same. To explore the new electronic frontier with Taylor and Saarinen is to see the world anew. A revolutionary period needs a revolutionary book. With...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Oca 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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book: Howard Rheingold 1 Oca 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...