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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Conceptual art
In 2012, eteam visits the towns of Mars and Moon Township in
Pennsylvania. Their approach is documentary, positioning themselves
as cultural anthropologists who view the towns as if they were
simulated environments on Earth, a training ground for eventual
living on the planet Mars and Earth's satellite, the Moon.
In less than two decades, digital networks have moved from
providing a macro background environment - actively accessible by
only a small coterie of scientists, experts, and state or corporate
agents - to pervading and augmenting our lives at an increasingly
micrological level. As our world is plugged into the matrix, we
know from direct experience that the pace of change is feverish,
the scope infinite and the effects in need of constant reckoning.
The Post-Media Lab offers a space in which to examine, reflect and
operate upon the networked, mediatised society from an unhurried
perspective. We seek to slow down the machinic pace of 'cybertime'
just enough to allow for a different tempo of thought to engage and
encompass it. Through a programme of four bi-annual residency
cycles spanning 2012 and 2013, the Lab has provided participants
(artists, technologists, film-makers, activists, cultural/media
theorists) with the practical and intellectual support and
resources to build real-world, aesthetic, technical or theoretical
assemblages which operate acutely on the interface between digital
networks and social and political life.
Edited by Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles and
Oliver Lerone Schultz Felix Guattari's visionary term 'post-media',
coined in 1990, heralded a break with mass media's production of
conformity and the dawn of a new age of media from below.
Understanding how digital convergence was remaking television,
film, radio, print and telecommunications into new, hybrid forms,
he advocated the production of 'enunciative assemblages' that break
with the manufacture of normative subjectivities. In this
anthology, historical texts are brought together with newly
commissioned ones to explore the shifting ideas, speculative
horizons and practices associated with post- media. In particular,
the book seeks to explore what post- media practice might be in
light of the commodification and homogenisation of digital networks
in the age of Web 2.0, e-shopping and mass surveillance. With texts
by: Adilkno, Clemens Apprich, Brian Holmes, Alejo Duque, Felipe
Fonseca, Gary Genosko, Michael Goddard, Felix Guattari, Cadence
Kinsey, Oliver Lerone Schultz, Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, and
Howard Slater Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between
Mute & the Post-Media Lab
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Nine Masks
(Paperback)
J Shamma McShain; Cover design or artwork by Dana Stamos; Edited by Gordon Richiusa
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In Art & Language International Robert Bailey reconstructs the
history of the conceptual art collective Art & Language,
situating it in a geographical context to rethink its implications
for the broader histories of contemporary art. Focusing on its
international collaborations with dozens of artists and critics in
and outside the collective between 1969 and 1977, Bailey positions
Art & Language at the center of a historical shift from
Euro-American modernism to a global contemporary art. He documents
the collective's growth and reach, from transatlantic discussions
on the nature of conceptual art and the establishment of distinct
working groups in New York and England to the collective's later
work in Australia, New Zealand, and Yugoslavia. Bailey also details
its publications, associations with political organizations, and
the internal power struggles that precipitated its breakdown.
Analyzing a wide range of artworks, texts, music, and films, he
reveals how Art & Language navigated between art worlds to
shape the international profile of conceptual art. Above all,
Bailey underscores how the group's rigorous and interdisciplinary
work provides a gateway to understanding how conceptual art
operates as a mode of thinking that exceeds the visual to shape the
philosophical, historical, and political.
A small book of opaque doodles and poems.
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Light Drawings
(Paperback)
Peter Frank; Translated by Shu-Ying Huang, Ting-Ting Lew
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