The Library
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Building a library of art + design books, catalogues, essays and documents — Hosts: @paul-prudence @vortac — Send a direct cast for an invite — 'Archive of Casts' solution provided by @nftbiker
mail day! 💌
just received this *free* book from Institute of Network Cultures. I posted about it a while ago, and it just came in the post! saw that @garance got one too 🤩
INC publishes a bunch of free books about technology + society/culture + theory so fully recommend checking them out.
just received this *free* book from Institute of Network Cultures. I posted about it a while ago, and it just came in the post! saw that @garance got one too 🤩
INC publishes a bunch of free books about technology + society/culture + theory so fully recommend checking them out.
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Images from Bauhausbücher
Between 1925 and 1930, the Bauhaus published a series of 14 books, authored by teachers and friends of the legendary design school. The titles discussed the ideas of the Bauhaus in art, design and architecture.
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https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/buehne_bauhaus1925/0102/image
Between 1925 and 1930, the Bauhaus published a series of 14 books, authored by teachers and friends of the legendary design school. The titles discussed the ideas of the Bauhaus in art, design and architecture.
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https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/buehne_bauhaus1925/0102/image
The Dream Machine, M. Mitchell Waldrop, 2018
Instant hit from Stripe Press featuring the story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet—and shifted our understanding of what computers could be. It includes the original texts of Licklider’s three most influential writings: “Man-Computer Symbiosis” (1960), which outlines the vision that led to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s; his “Intergalactic Network” memo (1963), which outlines the vision that inspired the internet; and “The Computer as a Communication Device” (1968, coauthored with Robert Taylor), which amplifies his vision for what the network could become.
Instant hit from Stripe Press featuring the story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet—and shifted our understanding of what computers could be. It includes the original texts of Licklider’s three most influential writings: “Man-Computer Symbiosis” (1960), which outlines the vision that led to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s; his “Intergalactic Network” memo (1963), which outlines the vision that inspired the internet; and “The Computer as a Communication Device” (1968, coauthored with Robert Taylor), which amplifies his vision for what the network could become.
If you didn't see the Electric OP exhibit in Buffalo (USA), and can't come to see it in Nantes (France) you can still buy the great catalog :)
Mark Blacklock
Emergence of the Fourth Dimension, 2018
A fascinating account of the history of the development of higher dimensional space in mathematics in the late nineteenth century and its proliferation into the visuals arts and early modernist literature in the twentieth century.
Emergence of the Fourth Dimension, 2018
A fascinating account of the history of the development of higher dimensional space in mathematics in the late nineteenth century and its proliferation into the visuals arts and early modernist literature in the twentieth century.
Visual Music Masters: Abstract Explorations: History and Contemporary Research, Adriano Abbado, 2018
Visual Music Masters explores past and present research questioning the relationship between music and abstract art. The book illustrates the stages by which the artistic community has embraced the latest technologies and a multi-sensory universe, creating in the process an independent form of expression: visual music.
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Visual Music Masters explores past and present research questioning the relationship between music and abstract art. The book illustrates the stages by which the artistic community has embraced the latest technologies and a multi-sensory universe, creating in the process an independent form of expression: visual music.
More impressions ↓↓↓
the 2nd book i ordered from Metalabel just arrived! the design of this one is STUNNING. 🤩
AUTONOMOUS WORLDS ft. multiple contributors. 👾
fun fact: someone i went to university with co-authored an essay for this book (Alasdair Milne :-) )
AUTONOMOUS WORLDS ft. multiple contributors. 👾
fun fact: someone i went to university with co-authored an essay for this book (Alasdair Milne :-) )
The Art and Science of Ernst Hackel - Taschen
Discover Ernst Haeckel, the artist-biologist who found beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures. This collection features 300 prints from his most important publications, including the majestic Kunstformen der Natur and his extensive catalogues of marine life.
Discover Ernst Haeckel, the artist-biologist who found beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures. This collection features 300 prints from his most important publications, including the majestic Kunstformen der Natur and his extensive catalogues of marine life.
Gm friends ✨
/the-library is one of the channels with the best content on @farcaster. And it's amazing to be able to access all the books and casts published there since the beginning through this page created by @nftbiker :
https://nftbiker.github.io/the-library/
[*see more about it in the comments]
/the-library is one of the channels with the best content on @farcaster. And it's amazing to be able to access all the books and casts published there since the beginning through this page created by @nftbiker :
https://nftbiker.github.io/the-library/
[*see more about it in the comments]
katayama ken oil paintings book
purchased at the kichijoji art museum in 2022 during his show
purchased at the kichijoji art museum in 2022 during his show
DIA–LOGOS: Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice
Studies on the legacy of Ramon Llull - visionary thinker, pioneer of generative systems, ritual heuristics, and a true forefather of artificial intelligence and computational culture
Edited by - Amador Vega, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski, released by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2019)
Studies on the legacy of Ramon Llull - visionary thinker, pioneer of generative systems, ritual heuristics, and a true forefather of artificial intelligence and computational culture
Edited by - Amador Vega, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski, released by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2019)
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Google Volume 2, Felix Heyes & Ben West, 2024
Google Images is the largest image search engine on the internet. According to its guiding principles, the search engine should display the most relevant images for searches. Ten years ago, Felix Heyes and Ben West put this to the test.
In their book Google Volume 1 (2013), they replaced the 21,110 words and their meanings in the English Pocket Dictionary with the first image that appeared when the word was searched for on Google Images. Ten years later, the same 21,110 words have once again been run through the search engine.
Google Images is the largest image search engine on the internet. According to its guiding principles, the search engine should display the most relevant images for searches. Ten years ago, Felix Heyes and Ben West put this to the test.
In their book Google Volume 1 (2013), they replaced the 21,110 words and their meanings in the English Pocket Dictionary with the first image that appeared when the word was searched for on Google Images. Ten years later, the same 21,110 words have once again been run through the search engine.
Less of a mood, more of an existential constant....
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Omnicide II, Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception, 2024
Perhaps not your average post for /the-library but I would highly recommend Urbanomic to adventurous readers of critical theory, theory-fiction and philosophy. 'Cross-disciplinary thinking outside the academy.'
https://www.urbanomic.com/book/
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Omnicide II, Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception, 2024
Perhaps not your average post for /the-library but I would highly recommend Urbanomic to adventurous readers of critical theory, theory-fiction and philosophy. 'Cross-disciplinary thinking outside the academy.'
https://www.urbanomic.com/book/
Finally getting around to reading this one, now 13 years old! I am enjoying its fresh and varied approach, despite its age. Love the chapter on Perec's Thinking Machines.
Mainframe Experimentalism - Hannah Higgins & Douglas Kahn, Eds. 2012
'Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley’s technological revolutions in the 1970s. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers around the world were engaging with mainframe and mini-computers to create innovative new artworks that contradict the stereotypes of "computer art."'
Mainframe Experimentalism - Hannah Higgins & Douglas Kahn, Eds. 2012
'Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley’s technological revolutions in the 1970s. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers around the world were engaging with mainframe and mini-computers to create innovative new artworks that contradict the stereotypes of "computer art."'
what book should I read
Cross-casting this in /the-library, to add up to @paul-prudence recent book recommendation on the political and societal implications of AI "empires".
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Aside from a very few (mostly conceptual works of art) I am unapologetically pessimistic about the role of AI in art and in society in general. There I said it. I will not bore you with my list of negatives right here but at the very least consumer level AI *is* just the entertainment division of the military industrial complex (to paraphrase F. Zappa) Critical tracts dissecting intelligent artificiality and the 'tech arms race ' excite me and this one by Karen Hao looks promising. Arriving in May
'I argue that the only way to fully understand the far-reaching implications of the AI race is to recognize companies like OpenAI as new forms of empire.
Empires of old seized & extracted resources, and exploited the labor of the places they conquered to drive their own expansion & advancement. All the while, they justified their conquest by calling it a civilizing mission and promising to bring the world boundless progress... (continued below)
'I argue that the only way to fully understand the far-reaching implications of the AI race is to recognize companies like OpenAI as new forms of empire.
Empires of old seized & extracted resources, and exploited the labor of the places they conquered to drive their own expansion & advancement. All the while, they justified their conquest by calling it a civilizing mission and promising to bring the world boundless progress... (continued below)
I don't have this one (yet) but it looks like a good addition to the /the-library
Identity Pitches
Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel
'In Identity Pitches, artists Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel have composed conceptual music scores based on the knitting patterns for traditional Norwegian sweaters known as Lusekofte'.
https://primaryinformation.org/product/identity-pitches/
Identity Pitches
Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel
'In Identity Pitches, artists Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel have composed conceptual music scores based on the knitting patterns for traditional Norwegian sweaters known as Lusekofte'.
https://primaryinformation.org/product/identity-pitches/
my art on the cover of the book
“Blackbird, Bye Bye” by Moniza Alvi
released by BloodAxe Books. (2018)
“Blackbird, Bye Bye” by Moniza Alvi
released by BloodAxe Books. (2018)
Currently reading this really incredible book about UX by Cliff Kuang
U S E R F R I E N D L Y
How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play.
Quote from page 268:
"Yet in hiding great complexity behind alluringly simple buttons, we also lose the ability to control how things work, to take them apart, and to question the assumptions that guided their creation. Modern user experience is becoming a black box. This is an iron law of user-friendliness: The more seamless an experience is, the more opaque it becomes. When gadgets make decisions for us, they also transform the decisions we might have made into mere opportunities to consume. A world of instantaneous, dead-simple interactions is also a world devoid of higher-order desires and intents that can't readily be parsed in a button. While it may become easier and easier to consume things, it will become harder and harder to express what we truly need.
U S E R F R I E N D L Y
How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play.
Quote from page 268:
"Yet in hiding great complexity behind alluringly simple buttons, we also lose the ability to control how things work, to take them apart, and to question the assumptions that guided their creation. Modern user experience is becoming a black box. This is an iron law of user-friendliness: The more seamless an experience is, the more opaque it becomes. When gadgets make decisions for us, they also transform the decisions we might have made into mere opportunities to consume. A world of instantaneous, dead-simple interactions is also a world devoid of higher-order desires and intents that can't readily be parsed in a button. While it may become easier and easier to consume things, it will become harder and harder to express what we truly need.
The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T., Stewart Brand, 1987
Compelling insights into the research at M.I.T. from Brand post Whole Earth investigating pioneering media and the topic of interactivity.
Compelling insights into the research at M.I.T. from Brand post Whole Earth investigating pioneering media and the topic of interactivity.
