Remix and the Rouelles of Media Production — in Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) — has been translated into Czechoslovakian by Pavla Stejskalová: Remix a mediální produkce:

Obliba remixování stoupá

Bylo by těžké představit si umění bez remixování. Naše nejstarší kulturní záznamy obsahují bezpočet příkladů, ve kterých se dochované materiály využily pro tvorbu nových děl. Irští vypravěči neboli “Seanchai” se se svými posluchači dělili o mytické příběhy, jež různě přizpůsobovali a měnili podle tamějšího publika. Klasický starověk nabízí řadu obměněných mýtů a hrdinů a tato tradice pokračuje po celou dobu historie kanonizované západní kultury. Samotný Louis Dudek vyzdvihoval “Nalezený úvod” Johna Roberta Colomba, ze kterého citujeme: “Jestliže A si myslí, že je lepším básníkem než B, zastavme jeho povýšené naznačování. Continue reading

Read | Write In Production (A Narrative Inquiry on Interactive Art) by Nathaniel Stern — in Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art):

“In Production (A Narrative Inquiry on Interactive Art) is a free, digital companion chapter to Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (2013, an Arts Future Book with Gylphi Press).

“In the book, I argue that interactive art suspends and amplifies the ways in which we experience embodiment as per-formed, relational, and emergent. I provide many in-depth case studies of contemporary artworks that develop a practice of embodied philosophy, setting a stage to explore how we inter-act and relate with the world. I offer a critical framework for analyzing interactive artworks and what’s at stake in our encounters with them, which can be applied to a wide range of complex and emerging art forms. Continue reading

Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance by Nathaniel Stern, Arts Future Book, Gylphi Limited, 2013:

What is interactive art? Is this a genre? A medium? An art movement? Must a work be physically active to be classified as such, or do we interact when we sense and make sense? Is a switch-throw or link-click enough — I do this, and that happens — or must subjects and objects be confused over time? Is interaction multiple in its engagements (relational), or a one-to-one reaction (programmed)? Are interactive designs somehow more democratic and individualized than others, or is that merely a commercial strategy to sell products and ideas?

This book argues that interactive art frames moving-thinking-feeling as embodiment; the body is addressed as it is formed, and in relation. Continue reading

Anti-Media. Ephemera on Speculative Arts by Florian Cramer, nai010 Publishers: Florian Cramer, lecturer at the Rotterdam based Willem de Kooning Academy, demonstrates in his new collection of essays Anti-Media, how media and art critique constantly reflect on their own tradition, language and manifestations, while at the same time trying to subvert them.

In the essays Cramer presents and analyzes a wide range of subcultures — from Internet porn to neo-Nazi’s and anti-copyright activists — and offers a critical view on their imagery and poetry, plagiarism and automatisms.

Cramer asserts that art coexists with ‘anti-art’, and that the term ‘media’ is just as vague, or unfixed, as is ‘art’. Continue reading