Businesscide

Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera

Cinematic Mythmaking. Philosophy in Film

Cold Peace Counterpoints

The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road

Dust

French Colonial Documentary. Mythologies of Humanitarianism

Hollywood in the Neighborhood. Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing

Memory and Transformation: 100 days of Culture, Gardens and Landscapes - International Triennial Apeldoorn

Power Struggles. Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison

Transdisciplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision and the New Screen

November 2008

Arabic Tattoos
by Jon Udelson
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Autumn Leaves: Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice
by Angus Carlyle, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Cinema Babel
by Abé Mark Nornes
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Dying and Death: Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives
by Asa Kasher, Editor
Reviewed by Dr Ornella Corazza

The Art of Artificial Evolution: A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music
by Juan Romero and Penousal Machado, Editors
Reviewed by Jussi Parikka

Invitational Workshop Program
McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario
Reviewed by Ellen K. Levy

Nature, Landscape and Building for Sustainability
by William S. Saunders, Editor, with an Introduction by Robert L.Thayer, Jr
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

The Reality Overload: The Modern World's Assault on the Imaginal Realm
by Annie Le Brun; translated by Jon E. Graham
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

The 7th Annual National Conference of the American Synesthesia Association, Inc.
26-28 September 2008
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Synesthesia: Art and the Mind
18 September - 20 September 2008 The McMaster Museum of Art
Reviewed by Amy Ione

October 2008

Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
by David H. Price
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Ars Electronica
Festival for Art, Technology and Society
Linz, Austria
Thursday 4 - Tue 9 September 2008
Reviewed By Birgitte. Aga

Art Power
by Boris Groys
Reviewed by Boris Jardine

Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
by David Edwards
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture And The Human Figure
by Roberta Panzanelli, Editor
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Informal Architectures
by Anthony Kiendl
Reviewed by Chris Speed

Italian Location: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema
by Noa Steimatksy
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Martinique: Snake Charmer
by Andre Breton and Andre Masson; trans. by David W. Seaman
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
by Frank Lloyd Wright, with a new introduction by Neil Levine
Reviewed by Boris Jardine

Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
by Fukagawa Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman; with a Foreward by Freeman Dyson
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Smiling Through My Teeth
by Vicki Bennett, Curator
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture
by Paul D. Miller, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber

The Splendor of Islamic Calligraphy
by Abdelkebir Khatibi and Mohammed Sijelmassi
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
by Christopher M. Kelty
Reviewed by Rob Harle

September 2008

Black Rhythms of Peru, Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
by Heidi Carolyn Feldman,
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Biomasa
by Planeta Imaginario
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Bug Guitar Computer
by Steve MacLean
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Charles Ives Reconsidered
by Gayle Sherwood Magee
Reviewed by Katharina Blassnigg

Cigar Smoke
by Esther Lamneck
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife
by Akira Mizuta Lippit
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Ginger Leigh & the Hallucinations
by Ginger Leigh
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture
by Lara Kriegel
Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng

Metatron
by Richard Pinhas
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

The Most Of Now
by Nikola Kodjabashia
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Namesake Caution
by Time of Orchids
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Parasite
by Michel Serres
Reviewed by Anthony Enns

Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective
by Lyle Massey
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play
by Jennifer De Vere Brody
Reviewed by Margarete Jahrmann

The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse
by Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Secret Carnival Workers: Paul Haines
by Stuart Broomer, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Sexy Inc.: Our Children Under Influence. A Critical Look at the Phenomenon of Hypersexualization
by Sophie Bissonnete 2007
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

The Sugar Curtain
by Camila Guzmán Urzúa, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Two Regimes of Madness. Gilles Deleuze. Texts and Interviews 1975-1995
by David Lapoujade, Editor. Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina, Translators
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

What is Free to a Good Home?
by Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
by Erhard Bahr
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

August 2008

Adrienne Klein: Radiant Logic
Holocenter - The Center for Holographic Art
Reviewed by Susan Gamble

From Betamax to Blockbuster : Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video
by Joshua M. Greenberg
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui and Jannis Kallinikos

Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Tan
by Philip Monk
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Educating Artists For the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture
by Mel Alexenberg, Editor
Reviewed by Jack Ox

Face Food, The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes
by Christopher D. Salyers
Reviewed by George Shortess

La Jetée, Ciné-Roman
by Chris Marker
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Notes on the Underground, New Edition: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination
by Rosalind Williams
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Philosophies of Nature After Schelling
by Iain Hamilton Grant
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

Post Impressions: A Travel Book for Tragic Intellectuals
by Hollis Taylor
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W Winnicott
by Carol Mavor
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry
by Leo Beranek
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Sónar. 15^th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art
June 19 -21, 2008
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann

YLEM Journal: Artists Using Science & Technology
The Dichotomy of Reality
by Loren Means, Editor; Rob Harle, Guest Editor
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou

July 2008

21 Up South Africa: Mandela's Children
by Angus Gibson, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video
by Joshua M. Greenberg
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

The Counter-Creationism Handbook
by Mark Isaak
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

Dreamland
by Beat Circus
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Do Communists Have Better Sex?
by André Meier, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Documentary Time: Film and Phenomenology
by Malin Wahlberg
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

Excellent Cadavers
by Marco Turco
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

The Face of Evil
by David Tosco
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (The Movie Edition)
by Edwin A. Abbott, with Thomas Banchoff and the Filmmakers of Flatland
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Frameworks, Artworks, Place: The Space of Perception in the Modern World
by Tim Mehigan, Editor
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou

The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne
by Susan Vogel, Director
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Radiant City
by Gary Burns and Jim Brown, Directors
Reviewed by Anthony Enns

Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace
by Deborah Kapchan
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

June 2008

Ace Records
by David Stubbs
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
by Nadya Zimmerman
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Cult of Statistical Significance
by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema
by Pavle Levi
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

Disonancias: Joint Research Project between International Artists and R&D&I Units Located in the Basque Country
by Grupo XABIDE, Víctor Iriarte, Editors
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui

Eternal Youth
by AL and AL
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann

Forever Lenin
by Xavier Villetard
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

How Putin Came to Power
by Tania Rakhmanova
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

Madame Tutli-Putli
by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943
by Annmarie Adams
Reviewed by Leslie Topp

The Scar of Visibility — Medical Performances and Contemporary Art
by Petra Kuppers
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools
by Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, Ollie Oviedo (eds.). 
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

Time | Motion
by Jonathan Shaw
Reviewed by Devabrata Paramanik

Topologies: The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970
by Larry Busbea
Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng

May 2008

Circles: Science, Sense and Symbol
by Nicholas Wade
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Das audio-visuelle Zeitalter
by Jürgen Claus, editor
Reviewed by Frieder Nake

Energy War
by Shuchen Tan, Ijsbrand Van Veelen, and Rudi Boon, Directors
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica

The Exploit: A Theory of Networks
by Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker
Reviewed by Geoff Cox

Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture
by Jesper Wachtmeister
and
Once Upon a Time . . . Rome, Open City
by Marie Genin and Serge July
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

How Round Is Your Circle?  Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet
by John Bryant & Chris Sangwin
Reviewed by Phil Dyke

Imperial White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire
by Radhika Mohanram
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
by Judith Rugg and Michèle Sedgwich, Editors
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination
by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Platform for Art
by Alex Cole, with Introduction by Tasmin Dillon
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism
by Daniel S. Greenberg
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Shigeru Ban: an Architect for Emergencies
by Michel Quinejure, Director
Reviewed by Nameera Ahmed

Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools
by Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City
by Alev Cinar and Thomas Bender
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica

Supercomputing 07
November 10-16, 2007
Reviewed by Jack Ox

Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis
by Elizabeth C. Mansfield
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg


December 2007

Beyond the Soundtrack. Representing Music in Cinema
by Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, and Richard Leppert, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Char Davies’ Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality
by Laurie McRobert
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Going Aerial. Air, Art, Architecture
by Monika Bakke, Editor
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou

Listen How They Talk — Chamber Music 1998-2001
by Hilda Paredes
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers
by Casey Reas and Ben Fry
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

String Quartet No.2
by Morton Feldman
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life
by Arthur C. Danto
Reviewed by George Gessert


November 2007

The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney
by Michael Barrier
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890
by Robin Kelsey
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
by Carla Yanni
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Becoming 13
by Victoria King
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair
by Lisa D. Schrenk
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America
by Charmaine A. Nelson
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Do You Believe in Water?: Three Journeys in Cyprus and the Mediterranean
by Lia Lapithi Shukuroglou
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Elements of UML ^2.0 Style
by Scott W. Ambler
Reviewed by Kasey Asberry

Laws of Seeing
by Wolgang Metzger, Translated by Lothar Spillman, Steven Lehar, Mimsey Stromeyer, and Michael Wertheimer
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Musical Instruments of Nepal
by Ram Prasad Kadel
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture
by Christine L. Marran
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Science as A Spiritual Practice
by Imants Baru_s
Reviewed by Rob Harle

WAL-TOWN: The Film
by Sergeo Kirby, Writer and Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

October 2007

The Democratic Revolutionary Handbook
First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn, New York, 2005
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp
by T. J. Demos
Reviewed by Kieran Lyons

Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians
by Jane Lydon
Reviewed by Brook Andrew

Felix Werder: The Tempest
by Felix Werder
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Forever
by Heddy Honigmann
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
by Kembrew McLeod
Reviewed by Hugo de Rijke

Looking for an Icon
by Hans Pool & Maaik Krijgsman, Directors
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Pop Art Book
by Corinne Miller, Nadine Monem and Margaret Nugent, Editors
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

Residual Media
by Charles R. Acland, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mining
by Ernesto Cabellos & Stephanie Boyd
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui

Thousand Year Dreaming / floating world
by Annea Lockwood
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

T:BA:07
Sponsored by The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

(Un)common Ground: Creative Encounters between Sectors and Disciplines
by Cathy Brickwood, Bronac Ferran, David Garcia, Tim Putnam, Editors
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui

September 2007

Art for a House of Mathematics
by Anna Campbell Bliss
Reviewed by Rob Harle

The Big Fish. Consciousness as Structure, Body and Space
by Anna Bonshek
Reviewed by Rob Harle

The Blind Spot
by Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Camouflage and Art: Design for Deception in World War 2
by Henrietta Goodden
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Can’t Do It In Europe
by Charlotta Copcutt, Anna Weitz and Anna Klara Åhrén
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Cartographic Cinema
by Tom Conley
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945
by Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Descartes. The Life and Times of a Genius
by Anthony C. Grayling
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.

For
by The Claudia Quintet
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

For
by The Claudia Quintet
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Gods in the Bazaar
by Kajri Jain
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Henry Cow: Concerts
by Henry Cow
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

The Image in French Philosophy
by Temenuga Trifonova
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Reviewed by Richard Kade

Much Ado About Almost Nothing: Man's Encounter with the Electron
by Hans Camenzind
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations
by Ivan Karp, Corrine Kratz, Lynn Szwaja and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Editors
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Stots
by Lukas Simonis
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Surviving Death/Alive Why?
by Bill Brovold and Larval
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

The Topography of Chance
by Stewart Lee, Curator
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies under America
by Craig Baldwin
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Tube Mouth Bow String
by Nick Didkovsky
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Vali Myers: A Memoir
by Gianni Menichetti
Reviewed by Allan Graubard


August 2007

Bullshit
by Pea Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian, Directors
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Cartographic Cinema
by Tom Conley
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet Without Honor
by A.J. Meek
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means
by Zielinski, Siegfried; Gloria Custance, Translator; Timothy Druckrey, Foreword
Reviewed by: Sean Cubitt

Design Anarchy
by Kalle Lasn
Review by John F. Barber

Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation
by Steve Dixon
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
by Michael E. Veal
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

The Face of Evil
by David Tosco, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Forever
by Heddy Honigann, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

From Technological to Virtual Art
by Frank Popper
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century
by William J. Mitchell
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou

Jules Kirschenbaum: The Need to Dream of Some Transcendent Meaning
by Thomas Worthen
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science
by Margaret Boden
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960
by Bill Anthes
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Notes on Marie Menken
by Martina Kudlacek, Director; John Zorn, Music
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Ohne Schnur: Kunst und Drahtlose Kommunikation
by Katja Kwastek, Editor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Our Daily Bread
by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Director
and
The Gleaners and I
by Agnes Varda, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies
by Michel Quinejure
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

July 2007

All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950
by Robert E. Kohler
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Design Anarchy
by Kalle Lasn
Review by John F. Barber

From Technological to Virtual Art
by Frank Popper
Reviewed by Paul Hertz

Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century
by William J. Mitchell
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou

MediaArtHistories
by Oliver Grau, Editor
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

Notes on Marie Menken
by Martina Kudlácek, Director
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation
by Peter Hallward
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

Problematizing Global Knowledge: The Theory, Culture, & Society Encyclopedia Project
by Mike Featherstone et al, Editors
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation
by Patrick Carroll
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara

Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation
by David Huron
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

La Biennale di Venezia
52th International Art Exhibition
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann

Visual Thought: The depictive space of perception (Advances in Consciousness Research: 67)
by Liliana Albertazzi, Editor
Reviewed by Amy Ione


June 2007

After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros. Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon
by David O’Brien
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

The Atlas of Climate Change. Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge
by Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics
by Sara Nuttall, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Cyberspaces of Everyday Life
Mark Nunes
Review by John F. Barber

El medio es el diseño audiovisual
by Jorge La Ferla, Editor
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui

The Future of Electronic Literature
Maryland Institute for Technology
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

Japan's Peace Constitution
by John Junkerman, Director; Yamagami Tetsujiro, Producer; Soul Flower Union, Music
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions
by Ned Rossiter
Reviewed by Geoff Cox

Other People’s Pictures
A film by Lorca Shepperd & Cabot Philbrick
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

PopModernism. Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday
by Juan A. Suárez
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Russia in Transition: I to IV
by Sergei Loznitsa
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? — Experiencing Aural Architecture
by Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter
Reviewed by Florence Martellini

Surviving Death/Alive Why?
by Larval
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Tin Men
by Archie Green
Reviewed by Rob Harle

The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft
by Ann Friedber
Reviewed by Ian Verstegen


May 2007

The Animation of Lists And the Archytan Transpositions
by Warren Burt
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers
by Diarmuid Costello and Jonathan Vickery, Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

Constant, Avant le Départ
by Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele
Reviewed by Anthony Enns

Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America
by Takayuki TatsumI
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Ghosthunter: A Journey through Haunted France
by Simon Marsden
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

Making Easy Listening, Material Culture and Postwar American Recording
by Tim J. Anderson
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film
by Brigitte Peucker
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Musimathics. The Mathematical Foundations of Music, Vol. 1
by Gareth Loy
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Renzo Piano: Work in Progress
by Marc Petitjean, Director
Reviewed by Nameera Ahmed

Salvador Allende
by Patricio Guzmán, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Scientific Pluralism (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
by Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino, and C. Kenneth Waters, Editors
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
by Caroline A. Jones, Editor
Reviewed by Craig Hilton

Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis
by Elizabeth C. Mansfield
Reviewed by Amy Ione

YLEM Journal: Artists Using Science and Technology
by Loren Means, Editor; Gregg Rickman, Guest Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

April 2007

The Angelmakers
by Astrid Bussink, Director
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism
by Mary E. Davis
Reviewed by Richard Kade

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science’s Postwar Elite
by Ann Finkbeiner
Review by John F. Barber

Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture
by Maria Elena Buszek
Jonathan Zilberg, Ph.D.

Salvador Allende
by Patricio Guzmán, Director
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air
by Daniell Cornell, Editor
Amy Ione

They Chose China
by Shuibo Wang
Jonathan Zilberg, Ph.D.

Water Sound Images: The Creative Music of the Universe
by Alexander Lauterwasser; trans. by Gunter Maria Zielke [first German edition 2002]
Reviewed by Rob Harle


March 2007

At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet
by Annmarie Chandler and Norrie Neumark
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Bernie Boston: American Photojournalist
by Therese Mulligan
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Bullshit
by Pea Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian, Directors
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma

Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health
by Kirsten Ostherr
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.

Cutting Code: Software and Sociality
by Adrian Mackenzie
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Designing Interactions
by Bill Moggridge; foreword by Gillian Crampton-Smith
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry
by Siobhan Roberts
Reviewed by Paul Brown

The Laws of Simplicity
by John Maeda
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Mapping Perception
by Giles Lane and Katrina Jungnickel, Editors, Andrew Kotting
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

The New Typography
by Jan Tschichold; translated from German by Ruari McLean
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Optical Illusions: The Science of Visual Perception
by Al Seckel
Reviewed by George Shortess

Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture
by T. L. Taylor
Review by John F. Barber

Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
by Annalee Newitz
Reviewed by Nick Cronbach

The Secret Life of Babies Part 1 & 2
by Bernard George, Director
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Tester: Nodes at Work
The Fundacíon Rodríguez, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

February 2007

Cartographies of Tsardom. The Land and its Meanings in Seventeenth Century Russia
by Valerie Kivelson
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Our Daily Bread
by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

Inside Out
by Zohreh Shayesteh
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

John Cage Performs James Joyce
by Takahiko Iimura
and
Fluxus Replayed
by Takahiko Iimura
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

King of Infinite Space. Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
by Siobhan Roberts
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Playing the News
by Jeff Plunkett and Jigar Mehta, Directors
Reviewed by Amy Ione

SC06: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Reviewed by Jack Ox

Seeing High & Low. Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture
by Patricia Johnston, Editor
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Technology Matters: Questions to Live With
by David Nye
Reviewed by Michael Punt

Transitio_mx. Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video
by Amanda Lemus, Adriana Casas, and Lilia Pérez, Eds.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen


January 2007

Hats of Jerusalem
by Nati Adler
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

RES Magazine: March/April 2006 issue
Sue Apfelbaum and Jesse Ashlock, Editors
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Aesthetic Computing
by Paul Fishwick, Editor
Reviewed by Michael Kelly

Drawing Distinctions: The Varieties of Graphic Expression
by Patrick Maynard
Reviewed by Amy Ione

YLEM Journal: Artists Using Science and Technology
by Loren Means, Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Descartes: The Life and Times of a Genius
by A.C. Grayling
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Screen Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and World
Robert Pepperell and Michael Punt, Editors
Reviewed by Anthony Enn



December 2006

2005 Daejeon FAST: Future of Art, Science and Technology
by Jiho Lee
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Camouflage
by Neil Leach
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Chats Perchés – The Case of the Grinning Cat
by Chris Marker
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Cybersounds, Essays on Virtual Music Culture
by Michael D. Ayers, Editor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Daejeon Museum of Art
by Lee Won-kon, Shin Bo-seul et al
Partially reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

The Future of Digital Art: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness
by Mel Alexenberg
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Memory Like Water
by Matt Rogalsky
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said
by Makoto Sato
Reviewed byJonathan Zilberg

Piewacket
by Puppetina
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought
by Tony Robbin
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Spectres of the Spectrum
by Craig Baldwin
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Tape Works
by Anla Courtis
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

November 2006

Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria
by Jonathan Holt Shannon
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

The Book of Portraiture: A Novel
by Steve Tomasula
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald
by Eric Santner
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

The Dreamers of Arnhem Land
by Christopher Walker
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema
by Pat Brereton
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

The Legend of Vernon McAlister
by Richard Leo Johnson
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Live at the Stain Bar DVD Adventure
by Quartet of Happiness
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Modern Chinese Artists, A Biographical Dictionary
by Michael Sullivan
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries
by David Carrier
Reviewed by Alise Piebalga

The Net
by Lutz Dammbeck
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher


October 2006

Art, Time, and Technology
by Charlie Gere
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Ars Electronica 2006: Simplicity - The Art Of Complexity
Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 5, 2006
Reviewed by Maia Engeli

Creative 3-D Display and Interaction Interfaces: A Trans-Disciplinary Approach
by Barry G. Blundell and Adam J. Schwarz
Reviewed by Paul Hertz

Mediamatic Off-Line. Vol 11, No. 1 and No. 2
by Paul Groot, Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music
by Steven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten, Editors
Reviewed by Alise Piebalga

New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories
by Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s
by Cécile Whiting
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

<Robodies>
by Logos Publiek Domein
and
Emmanuel Vigeland
by Nikolai Galen
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Sentinel, The Design, Fabrication, and Installation of the Monumental Sculpture by Albert Paley at Rochester Institute of Technology
by James Yarrington, Editor
Reviewed by George Shortess

The Socialist, the Architect and the Twisted Tower
by Fredrik Gertten, Producer and director
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg

Surrealism and Cinema
by Michael Richardson
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

Two Minds: Artists and Architects in Collaboration
by Jes Fernie, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Visual Media and the Humanities
by Kecia Driver McBride, Editors
Reviewed by John F. Barber

The Way of Taiko
by Heidi Varian; Foreword by Seichi Tanaka
and
JRock, Ink: A Concise Report on 40 of the Biggest Rock Acts in Japan
by Josephin