aRt&D_series http://v2.nl This is a collection of books by authors and artists whose work centers around research into the artistic use and application of digital technologies. This new field encompasses a heterogeneous collection of artistic, technological and scientific disciplines and is therefore characterized by inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration. The series makes a significant contribution to the development of the discipline. daily 1 2009-03-31T10:06:09Z Book for the Electronic Arts http://v2.nl/publishing/book-for-the-electronic-arts "Book for the Electronic Arts" describes 25 years of developing electronic art, necessitating a continuous reevaluation of the classic concepts of art.

 

Interviews with: Dick Raaijmakers, Stelarc, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Peter Weibel, Roy Ascott, Adilkno, Erik Hobijn, Felix Hess, Lars Spuybroek, Kodwo Eshun, Geert Lovink, Seiji Shimoda. 


In the past 25 years the electronic arts have left their pioneering days behind and grown into a fully fledged and richly varied form of art. Electronic art concerns both an artistic approach to technological devices and a technological approach to artistic concepts. Electronic art necessitates a reevaluation of the classic concept of art, and this is exactly what is done in the five essays included here. These essays were written with a lay audience in mind and describe the cultural, scientific, art historic, military-political and socioeconomic backgrounds with which electronic art is in dialogue.

The electronic arts as described here include spectacular devices such as Dutch artist Erik Hobijn's "suicide machine" and the "third arm" of Australian body artist Stelarc, and sophisticated interactive installations like those of Germany's Ulrike Gabriel and Japan's Seiko Mikami. They also include complex Internet projects by the Austrian/German Knowbotic Research (IO_dencies) and the English art inspiration Roy Ascott and the motion architecture of Rotterdam's Lars Spuybroek/NOX. These and other artists are given a voice in the Book for the Electronic Arts. Also included are interviews with pioneers and theorists of electronic art like Dick Raaijmakers, Peter Weibel, Steina and Woody Vasulka and Kodwo Eshun.

The Book for the Electronic Arts is lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs and other documents from the archives of V2_Organisation in Rotterdam, where over the past twenty years, virtually everything that was of interest in electronic art or was later proven to be has been presented.

 

"Electronic art necessitates a reevaluation of the classic concept of art, and this is exactly what is done in the five essays included here". UNESCO.org

 

Essays

  • Non-Producing Machines
  • Unstable Media
  • Imageless Art
  • Counterintuitive Interfaces
  • Incommunicative Networks


Interviews

  • Dick Raaijmakers
  • Stelarc
  • Steina and Woody Vasulka
  • Peter Weibel
  • V2_Organisation
  • Roy Ascott
  • Adilkno
  • Erik Hobijn
  • Felix Hess
  • Lars Spuybroek
  • Kodwo Eshun
  • Geert Lovink
  • Seiji Shimoda
]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen V2_ Publishing book 2009-03-12T10:00:00Z Page The Vibrancy Effect http://v2.nl/publishing/the-vibrancy-effect (e-Book) What are the ethical, aesthetic and political stakes in understanding a world view in which humans are no longer at the centre?

With: Andrew Pickering, Timothy Lenoir, Tagny Duff, Sundar Sarukkai, Dmitry Gelfand, Evelina Domnitch, Arjen Mulder, Sally Jane Norman, Peter Cariani, Mariam Fraser, Maurizio Martinucci, Joel Ryan, Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Harry Smoak and Chris Salter.

Edited by Harry Smoak, Chris Salter and Michel van Dartel.

As techno-science increasingly reaches into every aspect of life, formerly fast held distinctions between the inert and the active, the human and non-human and life and matter are cracking. From biotechnical engineering to the cataclysmic imminence of climate change, our very notions of what and how we consider life are under fire. What are the ethical, aesthetic and political stakes in understanding a world view in which humans are no longer at the centre? 

The Vibrancy Effect originates from a closed expert meeting organized by V2_ and Chris Salter that brought together artists, social scientists, natural scientists and humanities experts to explore the question of what matter does, to us and the world, and to bridge the gap between different disciplines conceptualizing and working with new notions of ‘vibrant materiality’ (Jane Bennett) and ‘material agency’ (Andrew Pickering).

 

Book Launch

Vibrancy Effect is presented during the DEAF2012 festival,
Gouvernestraat 133 Hotspot, on May 18, 12:00-13:00.

 
]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen This information is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 2012 V2_Publishing aRt&D book ebook webshop book 2012-05-14T09:15:00Z Page aRt&D http://v2.nl/publishing/art-d "aRt&D: Research and Development in Art" provides a unique insight in the art practice where artists write about their personal experiences, and also develops a theoretical framework for their projects.


With: Andrew Benjamin, Josephine Bosma, Andy Cameron, Timothy Druckrey, Rudolf Frieling, Mark B. Hansen.

Edited by Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder and Anne Nigten.



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aRt&D: Research and Development in Art lays open a new investigative field of art that emerged in the last few decades as a result of media and technology influences. aRt&D introduces the diversity of this new art domain to a broader audience. It is the first book that is entirely dedicated to artistic research and development.

In the past decades a new international trend has emerged within the arts, usually referred to as "electronic," "digital," or "interactive" art. In the 1980s, artists mainly worked with radio and video, where in the last fifteen years digital media and network technologies have emerged as their instruments of choice. This new art domain is characterized by collaboration between artists, designers, engineers and scientists, who join forces in researching and experimenting with new opportunities for using technology for artistic ends.

aRt&D: Research and Development in Art not only provides a unique insight in the art practice through essays in which artists write about their personal experiences, it also develops a theoretical framework for these projects. The book contains contributions by the award-winning performance group Blast Theory, media artist Thecla Schiphorst, art critics Josephine Bosma and Rudolf Frieling, media theorist Andy Cameron, curators Mark Hansen and Inke Arns, philosopher Andrew Benjamin, and many others. Timothy Druckrey, expert in this field, evaluates the importance of artistic research and development so far. aRt&D positions itself as a pioneering work: it is the first book ever published that focuses in depth on interdisciplinary research and development from an artistic perspective.

 

Essays

  • Introduction
  • Andrew Benjamin: Plurality of Actions: Notes on an Ontology of Technique
  • Josephine Bosma: Net Art: Building Something out of Nothing
  • Andy Cameron: Dinner with Myron or: Rereading Artificial Reality 2: Reflections on Interface and Art
  • Timothy Druckrey: (Ad)Venture Aesthetics?
  • Rudolf Frieling: Database and Context: Artistic Strategies within a Dynamic Field of Action
  • Mark B.N. Hansen: Embodyment: The Machinic and the Human
  • Anne Nigten: Blurred Disciplines, Expressive Software

 

Artist Projects

  • Archined, Stealth and V2_Lab
  • Ars Electronica Futurelab and Brucknerhaus
  • Blast Theory
  • Sara Diamond
  • Sher Doruff
  • Edwin van der Heide and Lars Spuybroek
  • Margarete Jahrmann and Max Moswitzer
  • Knowbotic Research
  • David Link
  • Esther Polak
  • David Rockeby
  • Q.S. Serafijn and Lars Spuybroek
  • Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignoneau
  • Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák and Márton Fernezelyi
  • Time's Up
  • whisper
]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen aRt&D book webshop book 2009-03-21T15:45:00Z Page Making Art of Databases http://v2.nl/publishing/making-art-of-databases "Making Art of Databases" is a series of essays on experiments deploying databases in interactive, dynamic artworks.

  

With: Sher Doruff, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Brian Massumi, Lev Manovich, Anne Nigten, Joel Ryan.

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Today we have a wide range of precise systems that have been developed to describe and categorize spoken and written communication – phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, semantically, pragmatically, stylistically. But nothing similar exists for visual and audio communications, in spite of the fact that the importance of these media has increased dramatically. To realize such a system, the archive of documents must be transformed into a digital sound and image database.

Making Art of Databases is a series of essays about attempts to develop systems for the deployment of databases in interactive, dynamic artworks in which the database plays an active role. Lev Manovich, Sher Doruff, Joel Ryan and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, together with Brian Massumi, share their ideas on the use of databases and archives and present the results of master classes they gave in various European cities in their particular areas of expertise. 

“Urban city intervention is not the best fit to reflect the reality of the city, for the simple reason that it is better suited to revise it.”


Essays

  • Anne Nigten: How Do We Make Art of Databases?
  • Lev Manovich: 'Metadating' the Image
  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Brian Massumi: Urban Appointment: A Possible Rendezvous with the City
  • Joel Ryan: MuViz - Visualization Notes
  • Sher Doruff: Collaborative Culture and EmergentC's

 

]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen book webshop book 2009-03-12T15:10:00Z Page Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 http://v2.nl/publishing/real-projects-for-real-people Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 is a reflection on the work of The Patching Zone.


Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 is a reflection on the work of The Patching Zone, a transdisciplinary media laboratory based in Rotterdam where students, young professionals and experts from different backgrounds build a shared practice. 

In Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 the authors take us on a rich journey of practice lead research and development that is grouped around four projects that were developed in The Patching Zone’s first two years (2008-2010). It highlights the theory and research approach that were applied; the outcomes are illustrated by the team members’ contributions through photo-essays, papers, design sketches and interviews with the stakeholders. Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 is especially relevant for researchers, scholars, makers and educators who are interested in a collaborative practice in the field of creative industry and technology. 

Foreword by Alex Adriaansens, director of V2_, Rotterdam, with  contributions by; Anne Nigten (NL), Kristina Andersen (DK/NL), Matthew Fuller (UK), Sam Nemeth (NL), Andreas.Muk.Haider (AT), Andreas Zingerle (AT),Christopher Baronavski (US), Corinna Pape (DE), Georgios Papadakis (GR), Javier Busturia(ES), Jelle Dekker (NL), Jingni Wang (CN), Mirella Misi (BR), Nancy Mauro-Flude (AU), Pinar Temiz (TR), Rene Wassenburg (NL), Ricardo Nascimento (BR), Sietse Dols (NL), Simon de Bakker (NL), Vivian Wenli Lin (TW/US). Graphic Design: Corien Bos and Madi Kolpa. Copy editing: Lyndsey Housden

About the editor:  Dr. Anne Nigten frequently publishes and lectures on transdisciplinary collaboration in the creative sector. The Patching Zone follows the outcomes of her PhD thesis ‘Processpatching, Defining new Methods in aRt&D’ (2006). Prior to her current position as director of The Patching Zone, she was the manager of the V2_Lab in Rotterdam. 

http://www.patchingzone.net 

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