Paul Virilio http://v2.nl Articles in: daily 1 2009-05-13T16:52:23Z Book for the Unstable Media http://v2.nl/publishing/book-for-the-unstable-media In "Book for the Unstable Media" artists and scientists involved in media art ask themselves the question of how to deal with the hegemony of technology in art and society. Sold Out

Issued: 1992

ISBN: 90-9004840-5

Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm

Pages: 168

Type: Paperback, Illustrated, b-w

Language: English


With: Eric Bolle, Florian Rötzer, Jeffrey Shaw, Kristine Stiles, Georges Teyssot with Diller Scofidio, Paul Virilio, Peter Weibel, Gregory Whitehead, Achim Wollscheid.

Edited by Alex Adriaansens, Joke Brouwer, Rik Delhaas and Eugenie den Uyl.


This era, in which ideological oppositions no longer seems to exist, is dominated by the achievements of the Western model: science and technology. It is the era in which all systems are "compatible," in which an adapter can always be found for every opposition and every irregularity is erased by technology; in which, world-wide, the liberal-capitalist democracy is considered ideal; that is the era of the hegemony of technology, a technology which simulates a reality of its own, outside our physical reality, and which absorbs everything. 

In this book, visual artists and scientists involved in media art ask themselves the question of how to deal with the hegemony and the repression of, and the liberation by, technology. Their questions are not only directed at the image of reality produced by technology, that is: simulated reality, but also at the moment when our perception changes. The moment when criticism is still possible and we have not yet been absorbed by this simulated reality. It is a book about media art, which is aware of a changed world vision and which manifests these changes in its relationship with the public. Media art, which clearly distinguishes itself from art based on traditional standards, which has so far been shunning this development, but whose "images" are, indeed, being reproduced by the new technologies.


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]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen book 2009-03-20T11:05:00Z Page TechnoMorphica http://v2.nl/publishing/technomorphica Collection of essays on the merging of the biological with the technological.

 

With: Louis Bec, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Stefaan Decostere, Manuel DeLanda, Mark Dery, Jozef Keulartz, Knowbotic Research, Detlef Linke, Humberto Maturana, Wim Nijenhuis, Lars Spuybroek, Stelarc, Gerburg Treusch-Dieter, Paul Virilio.


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Will technomorphization – the reorganization of the organic based on the intelligent machine model – become the dominant process of our age? Has evolution entered a technological scientific phase in which humans no longer develop in natural ways, in which the human body instead adapts itself to the parameters of a technological era?

In this book, fourteen internationally acclaimed authors give their views on this blurring of borders and the fusion of the biological with the technological. It offers ideas on angels and robots, viruses and mad cows, a world where machines are anthromorphized and humans technomorphized. If the glare of our monitors is all that illuminates us, is it time to build a museum for the sun?

 

“A body capable of incorporating movement that from moment to moment would be a pure machinic motion performed with neither memory nor desire ...”


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]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen book webshop book 2009-03-02T15:30:00Z Page The Art of the Accident http://v2.nl/publishing/the-art-of-the-accident Collection of essays stating that the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine carries its particular form of disaster but also the suggestion that the old distinction between timeless form and time-dependent processes is becoming increasingly unclear.

With: Perry Hoberman, N. Katherine Hayles, Knowbotic Research+cF, Steve Mann, Brian Massumi, Humberto Maturana, Marcos Novac, Dick Raaijmakers, Otto E. Rössler, Paul Virilio, Lars Spuybroek.

Edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder. 


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Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it its own form of disaster but also the suggestion that in a world of network technologies the old distinction between timeless form and time-dependent processes is becoming increasingly unclear.

Ars accidentalis recognizes the creative potential of the accident, the fall, and the instability of digital media. The book maps the transformation of space, time bodies, machines and architectures through the conceptual and noninstrumental use of the computer.

The Art of the Accident includes essays and interviews from composer Dick Raaymakers, biologist Humberto Maturana, urbanist Paul Virilio, literary scientist Katherine Hayles, endophysicist Otto Rössler and computer scientist Steve Mann. It also contains a series of artistic interventions by people such as Knowbotic Research, Perry Hoberman and Diller Scofidio. This fully illustrated book takes a synthesizing approach towards intersecting practices in art and science, outlining the basics of an ars accidentalis.

 

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