Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
Archivi tag: media
Grant Bollmer – Materialist Media Theory: An Introduction

Bloomsbury, ISBN-13: 978-1501337116, English, 202 pages, 2019, USA
How much do we value ‘physical materiality’ in the 2020s? In the dominant tradition of media theory it seems to be valued very little, as either the ’meaning’ or →
Silvio Lorusso – Entreprecariat: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe

Onomatopee, ISBN-13: 978-9493148161, English, 260 pages, 2019, The Netherlands
Despite the fact that this book is extremely contemporary, it seems to emerge from the best traditions of 1970s-1980s counterculture. The author has a diversified background and quite →
(edited by) by Simone Natale, Diana Pasulka – Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural

Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190949990, English, 264 pages, 2019, UK
It’s been more than two decades since Erik Davis’ Techgnosis kindled a collective interest in the mystical impulses underpinning the rise of information technologies. Believing in Bits reconvenes →
Roger Mills – Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session

Springer, ISBN-13: 978-3319710389, English, 214 pages, 2019, Switzerland
One of the most fascinating promises of the early networked media was the possibility for collective, simultaneous collaboration by users in geographically discrete spaces. Something that is assumed by →
Michael Goddard – Guerrilla Networks: An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies

Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 978-9089648891, English, 358 pages, 2018, The Netherlands
“Why the 1970s”? This central question relates to the radical and comparatively significant production of underground social movements and media in that particular decade. Guerilla Networks →
Niels Brügger – The Archived Web: Doing History in the Digital Age

The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262039024, English, 200 pages, 2018, USA
As with other phenomena now implicated in our growing dependence on online media, the archiving of web data has become essential for addressing our recent past. →
Xiao Liu – Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China

Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-1517902735, English, 376 pages, 2019, USA
While overlooked by many, especially in academia, China is increasingly becoming a different planet, spinning at a different speed. Worse still, Western cultures know and →
(edited by) Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers, Joseph Wachelder – Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs

Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN-13: 978-1501333231, English, 288 pages, 2018, UK
Our visual memory has been under the public lens of science since neurology became a debated topic in popular media. Personal memory, and its importance for our personal identity →
Maria Eriksson, Rasmus Fleischer, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars, and Patrick Vonderau – Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music

The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262038904, English, 288 pages, 2018, USA
We might attempt to place Spotify historically as the most recent milestone in the universal digitalisation of music after Napster, iTunes and the iPod/iPhone. But the major shift with →
(edited by) Pedro Gadanho – Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture, and New Media after the Anthropocene

Hatje Cantz, ISBN-13: 978-3775744539, English, 224 pages, 2018, Germany
The complexity and the multi-disciplinarity of the Anthropocene are among the main causes of its still weak cultural and political impact, contrasting an already slightly devastating ecological one. We paradoxically →