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https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23580

“From the “Big Science” of Bell Laboratories to the esoteric world of séance chambers to university media labs to neighborhood makerspaces, places we call “labs” are everywhere—but h...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23486

“In 2021, Networks of Care offered a platform at the nGbK enabling an exchange of ideas and information between practitioners and experts concerning strategies for dealing with artistic estates...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23460

“This book introduces camera-based practices at the intersections of artistic and ethnographic research that critically examine the means of their own production and social embeddedness. In sha...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23450

“In 1930, German film composer Friedrich Hollaender wrote “Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte”, famously performed by Marlene Dietrich. It inspired the foundation of Dora García’s exhibi...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23427

“In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African studen...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23420

“MARCH embraces publishing as an act of protest to address the critical social and political issues of our time. MARCH emerges at a moment of deepening institutional crisis and is intent on adv...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23411

“Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects of life on campus and the larger forces that are reshaping it. P...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23401

“An outsider sci-fi anthology. Varied and largely critically-acclaimed material by the obscure, the overexposed and the justly renowned.” Edited by Rudy Rucker, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Robe...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23395

“In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collaboratories where paper media were cut up and reassembled into radical, bes...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23362

“Design Struggles critically assesses the ways in which the design field is involved in creating, perpetuating, promoting and reinforcing injustice and inequality in social, political, economic...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23356

“A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communities. Hacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary ...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23333

“Piazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contemporary point of view the project was also a for...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23318

“The music of the Greek-born composer, Iannis Xenakis, has been called brutal and violent. He first studied as an architect, but then turned to composition and put to musical use his knowledge ...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23309

“A key figure of Swedish counterculture and the creator of the first digital arts laboratory in Nordic countries, Charlotte Johannesson has worked primarily with two tools: the artisan technolo...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23286

“Reimagining the scholarly book as living and collaborative—not as commodified and essentialized, but in all its dynamic materiality. In this book, Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine th...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23278

“For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike–either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23273

“The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country’s most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du ciném...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23266

“The Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (CENSE) is an informal network of individual voices coming from various backgrounds. We propose this emerging network to fill the need of foste...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23242

“A new field of counterinvestigation in journalism, human rights, art and law Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, human rights violations, environmental crimes a...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23239

“How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, and institutionalization of archives establis...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23237

“After an omnipresent “Research Decade,” the concept of artistic research currently seems to be in need of a recharge. Pressing questions are: Should we talk about a postresearch situation ...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23235

“Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction’s most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, ...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23203

A special issue of the journal of the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (IRCAM) based at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Edited by Peter Szendy Publisher Editions Ircam/Centr...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23190

“What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change? In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-openi...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23188

“The publication Fragments for Studies on Art Organisation is part of the project Art Organisation which has been conceived as an introduction to the research of the ways of (self) organisation...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23186

“Red Horizon is the first study to focus on the Yugoslav avant-gardes from the perspective of the history of left-wing political ideas. Bearing in mind that the Yugoslav avant-gardes were polit...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23184

“See the world through the eyes of a search engine, if only for a millisecond; throw the workings of power into sharper relief by any media necessary; reveal access points to other worlds withi...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23153

“Building on the ideas Harney and Moten developed in The Undercommons, All Incomplete extends the critical investigation of logistics, individuation and sovereignty. It reflects their chances t...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23143

“This book provides detailed description of the craft of sound transformation using software instruments, with non-mathematical explanations and recorded music examples of all processes. Many o...

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23140