Reading List

A list of books/Journals that I have read through…

Public Art, Sculpture, Space:

  • James, Philip eds. Henry Moore on Sculpture. London: Macdonald, 1966.
  • Miles, Malcolm. Art for public places: critical essays. Hampshire: Winchester School of Art Press, 1989.
  • Steyn, Juliet (1989) ’Public and Private’, in Miles Malcolm, eds. Art for public places, Hampshire: Winchester School of Art Press, pp. 51-58 .
  • Chtcheglov, Ivan. “Formulary for a New Urbanism”, Formulary for a New Urbanism (Ivan Chtcheglov). 25 Aug 2006. 26 Mar 2009. <http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Chtcheglov.htm#9.>

Culture / Visual:

  • A.Shanken, Edward. Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
  • AGerbaek, Lise and Jorgensen Lotte. Moving Media Studies – Remediation Revisited. “Remediation, Edited – A look into a remediated production process: a new kind of Immediacy?”. Ed. Lars Qvortrup. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur Press, 2007.
  • Bassnett, Susan., 2002. Translation Studies (New Accents). New York: Routledge.
  • Benjamin, Walter., 1923. The Task of the Translator. In Illumination, trans. H. Zohn. London: Pimlico, 1999, pp. 70-82.
  • Benjamin, Walter., 1936. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. [Internet] Available at http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Betancourt, Michael. The Aura of the digital by. [Internet] Available at http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=519 [Accessed 25 April 2010]
  • Bollas, Christopher., 1979. The Transformational Object. Int. J. Psycho-Anal, 60, pp.97-107.
  • Bolter, Jay David. and Grusin, Richard., 2000. Remediation: Understanding New Media. London: The MIT Press.
  • Bolter, Jay David., 2007. Digital Essentialism and the Mediation of the Real. In Lars Q, ed. Moving Media Studies Remediation Revisited. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur Press.
  • Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Paris: Les Presse Du Reel, 1998.
  • Buchli, Victor., 2002. The Material Culture Reader. Paris: Berg Publishers.
  • Burnham, Jack “Steps in the Formulation of Real-Time Political Art” in Framing and Being Framed. Koenig, Kasper., eds. New York: New York University Press, 1975. pp.127-143.
  • Castells, Manuel. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. I The Rise of the Network Society Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
  • Chandler, Daniel., 2008. Semiotics for Beginners. [Online] Available at: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem06.html [Accessed 25 September 2009].
  • Danesi, Marcel., 2002. Understanding Media Semiotics. London: A Hodder Arnold Publication.
  • Dawkins, Richard., 1976. The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Routledge, 1991.
  • Gere, Charlie., 2006. Art, Time and Technology. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
  • Grau, Oliver. Ed., 2007. MediaArtHistories. London: The MIT PRESS.
  • Hoflich, Joachim R.(1997) ‘”Electronic communities” as social worlds’, in Noth Winfried, eds. Semiotics of the Media: state of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp.507-517.
  • Johnson, Steven A., 1997. Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. New York: Perseus Books Group.
  • Jorna, Rene J and Wezel, Wout van (1997) ‘Objects and the world metaphor: A semiotic engineering approach’, in Noth Winfried, eds. Semiotics of the Media: state of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp.481-495
  • Kaminski, Steven H., Communication Models. [Internet] Available at http://www.shkaminski.com/Classes/Handouts/Communication%20Models.htm [Accessed 25 September 2009].
  • Kotz, Liz (2004). “Video Projection: The Space Between Screens” in Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. Leung, Zoya and Simon Kocur (ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
  • Larsen, Caleb., 2006. Monument (If it Bleeds It Leads). [Video] Available at: http://dvblog.org/?p=228 [Accessed 25 September 2009].
  • McLuhan, Mcluhan., 1964. The Medium Is the Message. In Noah. W-F. & Nick. M, eds. The New Media Reader. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 203-209
  • McLuhan, Mcluhan., 1964. Understanding Media. New York: Mentor
  • Manovich, Lev., 2001. The language of New Media. London:The MIT Press.
  • Manovich, Lev “The Interface as a New Aeshetic Category “,[online] http://www.voyd.com/ttlg/textual/manovichtext.htm. Visited 11 March 2009.
  • Manovich, Lev., 2002. The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art. [Online] Available at: http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/data_art.doc [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Manovich, Lev., 2001. Lev Manovich Analyzes the Post-Media Age. [Online] Available at: http://www.artmargins.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=412:lev-manovich-analyzes-thepost-media-age [Accessed 25 September 2009].
  • Owens, Stephanie., 2005. A Transformational Object: Artistic Authorship and the Phenomenal Aesthetics of New Media. International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Technique, [pdf] Los Angeles: ACM pp. 191-194. Available at: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1086057.1086146 [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Philipsen, Heidi. Moving Media Studies – Remediation Revisited. “Remediation in Trier Trilogies”. Ed. Lars Qvortrup. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur Press, 2007.
  • Philipsen, Heidi. Moving Media Studies – Remediation Revisited. “Medium, Mediation, Remediation, Immediatication – How do we observe communication ?”. Ed. Lars Qvortrup. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur Press, 2007.
  • Presentation ‘Conceptualizing Materiality’ – Jacob Lillemose – Symposium Curating new media art – 2005: http://www.bamart.be/pages/detail/nl/2312
  • Raudaskoski, Pirkko(1997) ‘Semiosis at computer media’, in Noth Winfried, eds. Semiotics of the Media: state of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp.534-XXX.
  • Saether, Susanne O., 2007. Between the Hyperrepresentational and the Real: a sampling sensibility. In Sutton, Damian., et al., eds. The State of the Real: Aesthetics in the Digital Age. New York: I.B. Tauris, pp.48-61.
  • Shaw, Debra Benita. Technoculture. New York: Berg, 2008.
  • Spooner, Cally., 2008. The Task of the Translator. [Internet] Available at http://old.gold.ac.uk/art/exhibitions/mfacurating2008/pages/cs/01.pdf [Accessed 25 September 2009].
  • Steiner, George., 1975. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. London: Oxford University Press.
  • Wark, McKenzie., HACKER MANIFESTO 2.0. [Online] Available at: http://www.dvara.net/HK/wark2.asp [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology (Leonardo Books). London: The Mit Press, 2003.
  • >> Re:live – Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Melbourne 26-29 November 2009 http://www.mediaarthistory.org/relive/ReLive09Proceedings.pdf

Cybernetics:

  • Ascott, Roy., 2005. Syncretic Reality: art, process, and potentiality. [Online] Available at: http://www.drainmag.com/contentNOVEMBER/FEATURE_ESSAY/Syncretic_Reality.htm [Accessed 29 July 2010]
  • Ascott, R. (2007[1993]) “From appearance to apparition- Communication and Culture in the cybersphere”, in  A.Shanken, Edward., eds. Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.276-283.
  • Ascott, Roy., 1966-67. Behaviourist art and the cybernetic vision. In A.Shanken, Edward., eds. Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pp.109-157.
  • Ascott, Roy., 1990. Is there love in the telematic embrace. In A.Shanken, Edward., eds. Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 232-254.
  • Ascott, Roy., 1993. From appearance to apparition- Communication and Culture in the cybersphere. In A.Shanken, Edward., eds. Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, pp. 276-283.
  • Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1972.
  • Benedikt, Michael, ed. Cyberspace: First Steps. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991
  • Burnham, Jack., 1968. System Esthetics. [Online] Available at: http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/NYU2009/components/burnham_systems_esthetics.pdf [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Ear Studio., 2001. Listening Post. [Online] Available at: http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.htm l [Accessed 25 September 2009].
  • Hanseth, Ols and Monteiro, Eric., (1998). Understanding Information Infrastructure: CHAPTER 6 Socio-technical webs and actor network theory. [Internet] Available at http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~oleha/Publications/bok.6.html [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Harrison, Ellie., 2009. Vending Machine. [Online] Available at: p.42 of 64 http://www.ellieharrison.com/index.php?pagecolor=3&pageId=projectvendingmachine [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Kac, Eduardo., 2000. Dialogical Telepresence Art and Net Ecology. In Goldberg, Ken, eds. The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press. [Internet] Available at: http://www.ekac.org/dialtelep.html [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Krueger, Myron. W., 1991. Artificial Reality II. Addison-Wesley.
  • Tim Berners-Lee et al (2003 [1994]) ‘The World Wide Web’, in Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort, eds. The New Media Reader, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 792-798
  • Norbert Wiener (2003 [1954]) ‘Men, Machines, and the World About’, in Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort, eds. The New Media Reader, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 67-72
  • Noth, Winfried., 1990. Handbook of Semiotics. Stuttgart: Indiana University Press.
  • Roy Ascott (2003 [1964]) ‘The Construction of Change’, in Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort, eds. The New Media Reader, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 128-132
  • Van Kranenburg, Rob. The Internet of Things, A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008.
  • Lengel, Laura, Crispin Thurlow, and Alice Tomic. Computer Mediated Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Ltd, 2004.
  • Mitchell, William J.. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. London: The MIT Press, 1996.
  • Newland P, Creed C, Geesin M R(2006). ‘MEDIATE: Steps Towards a Self-Organising Interfacce’, in Ascott Roy eds. Engineering Nature: Art & Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. Bristol, United Kingdom: intellect, pp.53-56.
  • Paine G(2006). ‘Interactive, Responsive Environments: A Broader Artistic Context’, in Ascott Roy eds. Engineering Nature: Art & Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. Bristol, United Kingdom: intellect, pp.137-143.
  • Pepperell, Robert (2006). ‘Towards a Conscious Art’, in Ascott Roy eds. Engineering Nature: Art & Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. Bristol, United Kingdom: intellect, pp.11-16.
  • Rosenblueth Arturo, Wiener Norbert, Bigelow Julian et., 1943. Behavior, Purpose and Teleology. [Online] Available at:http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/Wiener-teleology.pdf [Accessed 20 Jun 2011]
  • Shanken, Edward. A., 2003. From cybernetics to telematics. In Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.1-95.
  • Wiener, Norbert., 1948. Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Cambridge, MA: Technology Press, p.13
  • >>CPOV: Critical Point of View Wikipedia and the Politics of Open Knowledge [http://www.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/Wikiwars] by Nishant Shah

Sound:

  • Schafer, R.Murray. The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. United States: Destiny Books, 1994.
  • Schafer, R. Murray. The new soundscape;: A handbook for the modern music teacher. Canada: BMI Canada, 1969.
  • Bustamante, Ariel. “Sound Art and Public Auditory Awareness”. Hz #12- “Sound Art and Public Auditory Awareness”. Mar 2008. 26 Mar 2009. < http://www.hz-journal.org/n12/bustamante.html>

Software Art:

  • Cox, Geoff. “Generator: The Value of Software Art” Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance. Rugg, Judith and Sedgwick, Michele, Ed. Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA: Intellect Ltd, 2007.
  • Fry, Ben. Visualizing Data. Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2008.
  • Lev Manovich (1999), ‘Avant-garde as Software’
  • Fuller, Matthew., 2003. Behind the Blip: essays on the Culture of Software. [Online] Available at: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0201/msg00025.html [Accessed 25 September 2009].
  • Fuller, Matthew. Software Studies: A Lexicon (Leonardo Books). London: The Mit Press, 2008.
  • Berry, Josephine. “NetArt Commons | Bare Code: Net Art and the Free Software Movement Josephine Berry.” Bare Code: Net Art and the Free Software Movement. 6 Dec. 2008 <http://netartcommons.walkerart.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/08/0615215&mode=threAd>

Electronics / tangible objects / artworks / Stat:

  • Scott Blake. 2008. Name Rainbow on Google Docs.[Video] Available at: http://www.barcodeart.com/artwork/netart/rainbow/home.html [Accessed 25 September 2009].
  • Technorati, Inc., 2008. State of the Blogosphere. [Online] Available at: http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Turkle, Sherry (Edt)., 2007. Evocative Objects. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Ullmer, Brygg, Hiroshi Ishii, and Robert Jacob. “Token+constraint systems for tangible interaction with digital information.” ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 12.1 (2005): 81-118.
  • Ullman, Shimon. High-Level Vision: Object Recognition and Visual Cognition. London: The MIT Press, 2000.
  • Wikipedia. 2009. Google Docs. [Online] (Updated 23 Sep 2009) Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs [Accessed 25 September 2009]
  • Wikipedia. 2009. Mame. [Online] (Updated 18 Sep 2009) Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme [Accessed 25 September 2009]

Aesthetic/ Sensorium:

  • Dickie, George., 1974. Art and the Aesthetic. London: Cornell University Press.
  • Coupe, James., 2007. Art, Representation and Responsibility: toward a systems aesthetic. In Sutton, D. et al., eds. The State of the Real:Aesthetics in the Digital Age. New York: I.B. Tauris, pp.79-87.
  • Jones, Caroline A., 2006. Sensorium: embodied experience, technology, and contemporary art. London: The MIT Press.
  • Smyth, Michael., 2007. Designing for Embodied Interaction: experiencing artefacts with and through the body. In Sutton, Damian., et al., eds. The State of the Real: Aesthetics in the Digital Age. New York: I.B. Tauris, pp.48-61.
  • Wolff, Janet., 1983. Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art. London: George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd.
  • Bolter, Jay David & Gromala Diane., 2004. Transparency and Reflectivity: Digital Art and the Aesthetics of Interface Design. Aesthetic Computing, MIT Press. (link: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.96.415)
  • Bricken, Meredith. 1991. “No Interface to Design.” In Michael Benedikt, ed. Cyberspace, First Steps, pp. 363-382. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (introduction is here: http://services.exeter.ac.uk/cmit/media/texts/benedikt1991/introduction.pdf)