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Leonardo Reviews : 2005 - 2009


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December 2009


XLIIIrd AICA CONGRESS
The Relations between Art and Science: Complicity, Criticality, Knowledge
Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland, 26-31 October, 2009
Reviewed by Ellen K. Levy


And While I Have Been Lying Here Perfectly Still: The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files
by Philip Monk
Reviewed by Rob Harle


Bill Viola in Conversation with Adam Weinberg
Thursday, October 27, 2009, The Whitney Museum's 2009 Annenberg Lecture
Reviewed by Giovanna Costantini


Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages & Collective Action
7th Creativity and Cognition Conference
October 27-30 2009, Berkeley Art Museum and the University of California, Berkeley
Reviewed by Amy Ione


Ex-Foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path
by Terry Harpold
Reviewed by Dene Grigar


Gerhard Richter
by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Editor
Reviewed by Amy Ione


Imagining Science: Art, Science and Social Change
by Sean Caulfield and Timothy Caulfield, Editors
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher


The Inventor of Love & Other Writings
by Gherasim Luca; translated by Julian and Laura Semilian
Reviewed by Allan Graubard


Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics
by Herman Weyl; edited and with introduction by Peter Pesic
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica


Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice
by Cathy Lane, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber


A Road to Mecca: The Journey of Muhammad Asad
by Georg Misch, Director
Reviewed by Catalin Brylla


Secret Museums: In Search of Hidden Erotic Art
by Peter Woditsch
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)


Speclab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing
by Johanna Drucker
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica


Svetlana About Svetlana
by Lana Parshina, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher


Unitxt
by Alva Noto
Reviewed by Hannah Drayson


Materials Received November 2009
Compiled by John Vines

 

November 2009


New Materials Received

Camoupedia - a compendium of research on art, architecture and camouflage

by Roy R. Behrens
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology

by Marianne van den Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, and Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Invisible Vision: Could Science Learn from the Arts

by Sabine E. Wildevuur
Reviewed by Stephen Wilson

Lucanamarca

by Carlos Cárdenas and Héctor Gálvez
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art

by Christiane Paul, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Newspeak in the 21st Century

by David Edwards and David Cromwell
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller

by Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto G. Trujillo, Editors
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals

by Hiroki Azuma; Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono, trans.
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher


October 2009


The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

by Angela Ndalianis, Editor
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Sonic Mediations: Body Sound Technology

by Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns, Editors
Reviewed by John F. Barber

The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture

by Georges Bataille; trans. By Stuart Kendall and Michelle Kendall
Reviewed by Florence Martellini

15 th Filmfest St. Anton. Berge, Menschen, Abenteuer

25. - 29. August 2009 - Festival website: http://www.filmfest-stanton.at/.
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg and Katharina Blassnigg

Creating Scientific Concepts

by Nancy Nersessian
Reviewed by Amy Ione

The Aesthetics of Disappearance, New Edition

by Paul Virilio; trans. by Philip Beitchman; Introduction by Jonathan Crary
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Waxed Oop

by Fast n' Bulbous
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Bits of Life: Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology

by Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke, Editors
Reviewed by Maureen Nappi

Bioethics in the Age of New Media

by Joanna Zylinska
Reviewed by Jussi Parikka

Cracked Media - The Sound of Malfunction

by Caleb Kelly
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

Talking With Television: Women, Talk Shows, and Modern Self-Reflexivity

by Helen Wood
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

State, Space, World: Selected Essays of Henri Lefebvre

by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden, Editors
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma

The Drawing Book

by Tania Kovats, Editor
Reviewed by George Shortess

Ars Electronica 2009

Linz, Austria, 3 – 8 September, 2009
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann

The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization

by The Modern Girl Around the World Research Group. Alys Eve. Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Yue Dong, and Tani E. Barlow, Editors
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance

by Tomie Hahn
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg


September 2009


Art For A Modern India, 1947-1980

by Rebecca M. Brown
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma

Between Earth and Sky. Our Intimate Connections to Trees

by Nalini M. Nadkarni
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Chris Marker: La Jetée

by Janet Harbord
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism

by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller, Editors
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States

by François Cusset, translated from the French by Jeff Fort, with Josephine Berganza and Marlon Jones
Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng

The Hidden Face of Fear

by Enrico Cerasuolo & Sergio Fergnachino, Directors
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

Milosevic on Trial

by Michael Christoffersen
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science

by Hermann Weyl, with new introduction by Frank Wilczek, based on translation by Olaf Helmer
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

The Poetics of DNA

by Judith Roof
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Racing The Beam: The Atari Video Computer System

by Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost
Reviewed by Robert Jackson

The Space Where You Go to Listen: In Search of An Ecology of Music

by John Luther Adams
Reviewed by Franc Chamberlain

The Theatre of Insects: Photographs by Jo Whaley

by Jo Whaley, Photographs; Linda Wiener and Deborah Klochko, Essays
Reviewed by Peter Smithers

Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction

by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser; James Rolleston, trans.
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

Third Person. Authoring and Exploring in Vast Narratives

by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens


August 2009


Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses

by Jussi Parikka
Reviewed by Anthony Enns

Forked Tongue

by Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library

by Christian Vandendorpe; Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Translators
Reviewed by Kathrine Elizabeth Anker


The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915

by Elizabeth Hutchinson
Reviewed by Jan Baetens


Inside Time

by Jason Young, Director
Reviewed by Nameera Ahmed

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture

by Anne Collins Goodyear & James McManus, Editors
Reviewed by Kieran Lyons


Malls R Us

by Helene Klodawsky
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Tactical Media

by Rita Raley
Reviewed by Geoff Cox

Wednesday Is Indigo Blue – Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia

by Richard E. Cytowic and David M. Eagleman
Reviewed by Florence Martellini

What’s under Your Hat

by Lola Barrera and Inaki Penafiel
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Bound to be Extreme: Books on Climate Change

Review by George Gessert

Including;

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Contributions of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

by Susan Solomon et al, Editors

Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Contributions of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

by Martin Parry et al, Editors

Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change: Contributions of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

by Bert Metz et al, eds

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

by Thomas Friedman

The Revenge of Gaia

by James Lovelock

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

by James Lovelock

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

by Mark Lynas

and

The Bridge at the Edge of the World

by James Speth




July 2009



A Guide To The Music Of The 21st Century

by Perfect Vacuum
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

53rd Art Biennale Venice

07.06 – 22.11.09
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann

Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments

by Eric Ames
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology

by William H. Tucker
Reviewed by John Vines

Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa

Fowler Museum, UCLA.
22nd Feb 2009 – 14th June 2009
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma

Explaining Culture Scientifically

by Melissa J. Brown, Editor
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America

by Molly McGarry
Reviewed by Anthony Enns

The Inner History of Devices

by Sherry Turkle, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Mind in Motion

by Philippe Baylaucq, Françoise Lindeman, Véronique Maison
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters – The Writings of Hollis Frampton

by Bruce Jenkins, Editor and Introduction
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

The Origin of Consciousness in the Social World

by Charles Whitehead, Editor
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess

by Andrei Codrescu
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time: Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique in the 21st Century

by Cynthia Ashperger
Reviewed by Franc Chamberlain

Rediscovering Aesthetics: Transdisciplinary Voices from Art History, Philosophy, and Art Practice

by Francis Halsall, Julia Jansen and Tony O’Connor, Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle


A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day

by Davin Heckman
Reviewed by Anthony Enns

We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis

by Gary Gasgarth, Director; Kevin Stocklin, Producer and Writer
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980

by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, and Catherine Mason, Editors
Reviewed by Jon Bedworth

Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths

by Robin Waterfield
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

Young Freud In Gaza

by PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanna Khardalian, Directors
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi


June 2009

 

Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Post-Modernity, Contemporaneity

by Terry Smith, Okwui Enwezor, Nancy Condee, Editors
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

Artists as Inventors- Inventors as Artists

by Dieter Daniel and Barbara U. Schmidt, Editors
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

Asian | American | Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970

by Daniell Cornell and Mark Dean Johnson, Editors
Reviewed by: Aparna Sharna

Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Pieces And Other Compositions, Second Edition

by Eva & Paul Badura-Skoda
Reviewed by Katharina Blassnigg

Mechanical Love

by Phie Ambo
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment

by David L. Lange and H. Jefferson Powell
Reviewed by Richard Kade

The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love

by Humberto Maturana Romesin and Gerda Verden-Zöller
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition

by Lawrence Weschler
Reviewed by Amy Ione

The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities

Silke Horstokke and Esther Peeren
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher



May 2009

Afghan Muscles

by Andreas M. Dalsgaard
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Animal Spirits A Bestiary of the Commons

by Matteo Pasquinelli
Reviewed by Jussi Parikka

Between Madness and Art: The Prinzhorn Collection

by Christian Beetz
Reviewed by Boris Jardine

Corpus Extremus (Life+)

Exit Art; NY, NY, Feb 28 - April 18th
Reviewed by Boryana Rossa

Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds

by Timothy Murray
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

New Media in the White Cube and Beyond

by Christiane Paul
Reviewed by Helen Levin

Recipes for Disaster

by John Webster
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara

Roy Ascott

The Syncretic Sense
Plymouth Arts Centre; Plymouth, UK
4 April-24 May 2009
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

The Axe in the Attic

by Ed Pincus and Lucia Small
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara

TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television

by Lynn Spigel
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Umbrella

by Du Haibin
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara


April 2009

 

The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI

by John Johnston
Reviewed by Jussi Parikka

Brief Retrospective of Selma the Sculptor? -- Hokusai's Great Wave and Job

by Selma K. Dritz
Reviewed by Richard Kade

Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990

Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel, Editors
Reviewed by Dr. Brigitta Zics

The Fun Factory. The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture

by Rob King
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

I AM A MONUMENT: On Learning from Las Vegas

by Aron Vinegar
Reviewed by Chris Speed

(In)Visible: Learning to Act in the Metaverse

by Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Near-Death Experiences. Exploring the Mind-Body Connection

by Ornella Corazza
Reviewed by Luis Miguel Girão

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Film

by Daniel Barnett
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

On Landscapes

by Susan Herrington
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science

by Christine Hine
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology

by Kristine C. Harper
Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng

March 2009


The California Deserts: An Ecological Rediscovery

by Bruce M. Pavlik
Reviewed by: Aparna Sharma

Chaosophy, New Edition: Texts and Interviews 1972 - 1977, Félix Guattari

Reviewed by Robert Jackson
by Sylvere Lotringer, Editor; Introduction by François Dosse. David L. Sweet, Jarred Becker and Taylor Adkins, Translators

 

Conversations with the Mob

by Megan Lewis
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema

by Dan Streible , with Foreword by Charles Musser
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

The Mechanical Voices

by Brian Malone
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

The Nuclear Comeback

by Justin Pemberton
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara

Platform For Art: Art On The Underground

by Alex Coles, Introduction by Tamsin Dillon
Reviewed by Helen Levin, MFA

The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics

by Melanie Swalwell and Jason Wilson, Editors
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison

by Michael Brian Schiffer
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Primal Force in Symbol: Understanding the Language of Higher Consciousness

by Rene Alleau; Ariel Godwin, Translator
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

SymbioticA Biological Art Workshop, Bangalore

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Reviewed by Papiya Bhattacharya

True To Life: Twenty-Five Years Of Conversations With David Hockney

by Lawrence Weschler
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold


February 2009

All White in Barking

by Marc Isaacs, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Baghdad Twist

by Joe Balass, Director
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain

by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins
Reviewed by John F. Barber


Coming to You Wherever You Are: MuchMusic, MTV and Youth Identities

by Kip Pegley
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Dr. Strangelove Dr Strangelove

by Kristan Horton
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño

Egypt: We Are Watching You

by Leila Menjo and Sherief Elkatsha, Directors
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

by Frank Lloyd Wright Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño

Global Soundtracks. Worlds of Film Music

by Mark Slobin, Editor
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Graffiti Japan

by Remo Camerota
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Hidden Gifts: The Mystery of Angus MacPhee

by Nick Higgins
Reviewed by Rob Harle

In Search of Gandhi (Why Democracy? Series)

by Alex Gibney, Director
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg


Iron Ladies of Liberia

by Siatta Scott Johnson and Daniel Junge, Directors
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Jesus Politics: The Bible and the Ballot

by Ilan Ziv, Director
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Killer’s Paradise

by Giselle Portenier, Director
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Memory Against Culture. Arguments and Reminders

by Johannes Fabian
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting

by Peter M. Mclsaac
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño

Mustapha Kemal Atatürk: The Birth of a Republic

by Séverine Labat, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction

by Ray Brassier
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

The Order of Myths

by Margaret Brown, Director
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Philosophy of New Music

by Theodore Adorno; Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Robert
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Strawberry Fields

by Ayelet Heller, Director
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Taxi to the Dark Side (Why Democracy? Series)

by Lalit Vachani, Director
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Technology and Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Future

by Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore, Editors
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara


January 2009

In Bed With Madness: Trying to Make Sense in a World That Doesn’t

by Yannis Andricopoulos
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

California Video: Artists and Histories

by Glenn Phillips, Editor
Reviewed by Amy Ione


The Essence of Perfume

by Roja Dove
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts

edited by Colin Martindale, Paul Locher, and Vladimir M. Petrov
Reviewed by Robin Hawes

The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It

by Jonathan Zittrain
Reviewed by John F. Barber

KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art

by Bruce Grenville, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Perspective, Projections and Design: Technologies of Architectural Representation

by Mario Carpo and Frédérique Lemerle, Editors
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Six Stories from the End of Representation – Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980–2000

by James Elkins
Reviewed by Frédérique Swist

SwanQuake: The User Manual

by Scott deLahunta, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Tracked Down by Our Genes

by Phillipe Borrel and Gilbert Charles
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño

The Watkins Dictionary of Symbols

by J.Tresidder
Reviewed by Rob Harle




December 2008


Businesscide

by Michael Maksymenko
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera

by Sarah Caldwell, with Rebecca Matlock
Reviewed by Katharina Blassnigg

Cinematic Mythmaking. Philosophy in Film

by Irvin Singer
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Cold Peace Counterpoints

by Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road

Catherine Liu, John Mowitt, Thomas Pepper, and Jakki Spicer, Editors
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Dust

by Hartmut Bitomsky, Director
Reviewed by Nameera Ahmed

French Colonial Documentary. Mythologies of Humanitarianism

by Peter J. Bloom
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

Hollywood in the Neighborhood. Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing

by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

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

by Bert Van Meggelen, Editor
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

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

by Michael Brian Schiffer
Reviewed by Michael Punt

Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond

by Eduardo Kac, Editor
Reviewed by Simone Osthoff

Transdisciplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision and the New Screen

by Randy Adams, Steve Gibson, and Stefan Müller Arisona, Editors
Reviewed by Mike Leggett





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. 15th 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



April 2008

ARTSCIENCE: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
by David Edwards
Reviewed by David G. Stork

Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects

by Roger Stonehouse
Reviewed by Boris Jardine

The Cry at Zero
by Andrew Joron
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow
by Victoria Vesna
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

Eileen Gray, Designer and Architect
by Jorg Bundschuh, Director
Reviewed by Florence Martellini

Enhanced Visualization: Making Space for 3-D Images
by Barry G. Blundell
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price
by Stanley Matthews
Reviewed by Boris Jardine

The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne
by Susan Vogel
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Great Expectations
by Jesper Watchmeister, Director
Reviewed by Florence Martellini

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

The Prize of the Pole
by Staffen Julen, Director
Review by John F. Barber

Shadya
by Roy Jacob Westler
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
by Chris Marker and Francois Reichenbach
and
The Embassy
by Chris Marker
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

State Of The World: Our Urban Future 2007
by Worldwatch Institute
Reviewed by Mit Mitropoulos

Teeth
by Alice Arnold
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loïe Fuller
by Ann Cooper Albright
Martha Blassnigg

The Two Lives of Eva
by Esther Hoffenberg
Reviewed by Nameera Ahmed

We Interrupt Your Program
Mills College Art Museum
Reviewed by Meredith Tromble

When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness
by Tobi Zausner
Reviewed by Rob Harle

YLEM Journal: Artists Using Science & Technology
Jules Verne & Beyond

by Loren Means, Editor
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou (London)



March 2008

A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium

by Robert Friedel
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Disco 3000
by Sun Ra
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism

by Ian Buchanan, Editor
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

NEWS
by Lukas Simonis & Takayuki Kawabata
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Partisan Canons
by Anna Brzyski, Editor
Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng

Photo Souvenir
by Paul Cohen & Martijn van Haalen
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

Reema, There and Back. A Family Divided by Two Worlds
by Paul Émile d’Entremont, Director; Jacques Turgeon, Producer
Reviewed by Dr Alex Rotas

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

Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community
by Jennifer Deger
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

"The Story So Far..."...Oh Really"
by Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

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


February 2008

Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations
by Jonathan Auerbach
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Designing Design
by Kenya Hara
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Screams and Silence
by Black Paintings
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Curator
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
by Maria Sturken
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Townsville
by The Necks
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

(Un)common Ground: Creative Encounters across Sectors and Disciplines
by Cathy Brickwood, Bronac Ferran, David Garcia and Tim Putnam, Editors
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg


January 2008


Adorno in America
by David Jenemann
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Artificial Consciousness
by Antonio Chella and Riccardo Manzotti, Editors
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest
by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Reviewed by Rick Mitchell

Gerard Caris: Pentagonismus/Pentagonism
by Gregor Jansen and Peter Weibel, Editors
and
Gerard Caris: Art and Mathematics. New Reflections on the Pentagon. / Kunst und Mathematik. Neue Reflexionen ueber das Fuenfeck
by Gerard Caris and Theresia Kiefer
and
Tekeningen / Drawings S M A Cahiers
by Gerard Caris
and
Pentagonisme / Pentagonism. S M A Cahiers
by Gerard Caris
Reviewed by Rob Harle

The Hidden Sense. Synesthesia in Art and Science
by Cretien van Campen
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Noisefold
by Noisefold
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

On The Rumba River
by Jacques Sarasin
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Prisoners of Beckett
by Michka Saäl, Director
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams

Re: Skin
by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, Editors
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

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 Josephine Yun; Yana Moskaluk, illustrator
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

With Amusement For All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830
by LeRoy Ashby
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg


September 2006

Curating Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems
by Joasia Krysa, Editor
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg

Echo and Reverb, Fabricating Space in Popular Music 1900-1960
by Peter Doyle
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
by Justine Larbalestier, Editor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiberoptics
by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.

Napolean David: The Image Enthroned
by Patric Jean, Director; Frédéric Cerdal, Narration
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Genes in Development: Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm
by Eva M. Neumann-Held and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle

EXIT: The Right to Die
by Fernand Melgar
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

webAffairs
by Show-n-tell
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg

River of Time
by Robert Fox
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg

24 Realities Per Second
by Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor, Directors
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg



August 2006

Chats Perchés — The Case of the Grinning Cat

by Chris Marker
Mike Leggett

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 10th Annual Conference
St Anne’s College, Oxford, June 23rd to 26th 2006
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell

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

Physics Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics
by Julien Clinton Sprott
Reviewed by Dr Barry Blundell

Radio Banana
by Aki Peltonen
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

SONAR 2006
13th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Mutimedia Art
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann

Special Delivery
by Tunsi
and
Group Therapy

by Elephant Tribe, featuring Talman Greed
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Winter Music, Composing the North
by John Luther Adams
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

The World in my Mind, My Mind in the World
by Igor Aleksander
Reviewed by Mike Leggett


July 2006

Artists in Labs: Processes Of Inquiry
by Jill Scott, Editor
Reviewed by Craig Hilton

Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field
by Rodney Benson and Erik Neveu, Editors
Reviewed by Fred Andersson

Designing Type
by Karen Cheng
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Documentary Film: Science and Art in Close Encounter within an Intercultural Dialogue
Film Festival Beeld voor Beeld, 17th edition
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

Foundation of Computational Visualistics
by Jörg R. J. Schirra
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica

Klimt, Schiele, Moser, Kokoschka: Vienna 1900
by Karen Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm, Editor
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures
by Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell; Foreword by Loren Coleman
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The New Medium of Print: Material Communication in the Internet Age
by Frank Cost
Reviewed by Kathleen Quillian

Media Art Net 2 Key Topics / Medien Kunst Netz 2 Thematische Schwerpunkte
by Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels, Editors / Hrsg.
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.

Minidoka Revisited: The Paintings of Roger Shimomura
by William Lew, Editor
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future
by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra, Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style 1920-1965
by Richard Hollis
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

To Be Seen
by Alice Arnold, Director
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi
by Timothy C. Campbell
Reviewed by Jan Baetens


June 2006

The Aesthetics of Disengagement : Contemporary Art and Depression
by Christine Ross
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Angels and Demons in Art
by Rosa Giorgi
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

J. G. Ballard Conversations
by V. Vale, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber

The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary
by William Playfair
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Darwin’s Ghost: The Darwin Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg


Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means
by Siegfried Zielinski; Translated by Gloria Custance; Foreword by Timothy Druckrey
Reviewed by Michael Punt

Feintes_doutes + fictions : Réflexions sur la photographie numérique
by Rodrigue Bélanger, Editor
Reviewed by Jan Baetens


Mademoiselle and the Doctor
by Janine Hosking
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Malick Sidibé: Portrait of the Artist as a Portraitist
by Susan Vogel
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

Media Ecologies––Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture
by Matthew Fuller
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

Painting the Digital River
by James Faure Walker
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)


The Producer as Composer, Shaping he Sounds of Popular Music

by Virgil Moorefield
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database
by Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg

Solaristics
by Thessalonians
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen



May 2006

Materials received up to 14th April
Compiled by Lucie Carter


Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: A Psychological Theory
by Ian Verstegen
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Art et Internet. Les nouvelles figures de la création
by Jean-Paul Fourmentraux
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary
by William Playfair
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman
by William S. Haney II
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire
by Tom Sandqvist
Reviewed by Alise Piebalga

Engineering Nature: Art & Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era
by Roy Ascott, Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK
by Alexei Monroe; Foreword by Slvoj Zizek
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Kenneth Anger
by Ann L. Hutchison
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Kochuu: Japanese Architecture/Influence & Origin
by Jesper Wachtmeister, Director
and
MA: A Japanese Concept
by Takahiko iimura
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Next Wave Festival
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma

Rays
by Michael Nesmith
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions
by Mike Budd and Max Kirsch, Editors
Reviewed by Victoria de Rijke

Re Views: Artists and Public Space
by Louise O’Reilly, Edward Allington, Simon Read et al
Reviewed by Alise Piebalga

Secrets of the Sideshows
by Joe Nickell
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker
by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Surrealism and the Politics of Eros 1938-1968
by Alyce Mahon
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

Telepresence and Bio Art: Networking Humans, Rabbits, and Robots
by Eduardo Kac
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

Third Views, Second Sights: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West
by Mark Klett, Project Director
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma

What Do Pictures Want?
by W.J.T. Mitchell
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

YLEM Journal "Science Fiction and Its Discontents"
by Loren Means, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber



April 2006

Materials received up to 18th March 2006
Compiled by Lucie Carter


Antonio Negri, A Revolt that Never Ends
Alexandra Weltz and Andreas Pichler, Directors
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

A Bibliographical History of the Study and Use of Color from Aristotle to Kandinsky
by Kenneth E. Burchett
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet
by Richard Coyne
Reviewed by Michael R. Mosher

Digital Art at ARCO - an indicator of the markets of technological art products?
Reviewed by Marcus Neustetter


Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment
by Michael Brian Schiffer
Reviewed by Stephen Wilson

Hermitage-Niks: A Passion for the Hermitage

by Aliona van der Horst, Director
and
The Hermitage Dwellers
by Aliona van der Horst, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

The Human Hambone
by Mark Morgan, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Le Corbusier's Hands
by André Wogenscky; Martina Milla Bernad, Translator
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Making Sense of Children's Drawings
by John Willats
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Shaping Things
by Bruce Sterling; Lorraine Wild, Designer
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

To Be Seen
by Alice Arnold, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West
by Steven B. Smith
Review by John F. Barber

Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies In Sonic Cultures
by Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello, Editors
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen



March 2006


Materials Received up to 18th February 2006
Compiled by Lucie Carter

Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects
by Robert Hobbs
Reviewed by Rob Harle

August Sander——People of the 20th Century
Reiner Holzemer, Director
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg

Baikal Ice
by Peter Cusack
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Digital Transit and Postmedia Condition
MediaLabMadrid
Reviewed by Nora Raggio

Documentary Film——Politics, Aesthetics and Ethics
IDFA and Shadow Festival
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg

The Flower Shop
by Leonard Koren
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Give Our Regards To the Atomsmashers: Writers on Comics
Sean Howe, Editor
Review by John F. Barber

LIVE
by Univers Zero
and
The Legend of Vernon McAllister
by Richard Leo Johnson
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Perception and Illusion: Historical Perspectives
by Nicholas J. Wade
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Peter Tscherkassky
Alexander Horwath and Michael Loebenstein, Eds.
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker

Salmela, Architect
by Thomas Fisher; David Salmela, preface
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes, and the Quest for Transcendence
by Clifford A. Pickover
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film
by Jeffrey Skoller
Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Tangible Frequencies
Steve Gibson, Julie Andreyev, and Randy Adams, Curators
Reviewed by Dene Grigar



February 2006

Materials received up to 13th January 2006
Compiled by Lucie Carter

Aesthetics and Visualization in Chemistry
(including Virtual Art Exhibition: Chemistry in Art)

by Tami I. Spector & Joachim Schummer, Eds.
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Codex Mundi: Escritura Fractal II
(con cuadratura numérica del hexagrama)

by Ramon Dachs
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.

Cuts: Carl Andre Texts 1959-2004
by James Meyer, Ed.
Reviewed by Alise Piebalga

Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-order Cybernetics Autopoiesis and Cyber-Semiotics, Gregory Bateson. Essays for an Ecology of Ideas
by Søren Brier, Ed.
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

Daphna Margolin: Ada-Mah?.com
The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, 2002
Reviewed by Jude James

Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication
by Marty Roth
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold

Embodied and Embedded Visions
The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts– SLSA
Chicago, IL, November 10-13, 2005
Reviewed by Simone Osthoff

The Enraged Musician: Hogarth’s Musical Imagery
by Jeremy Barlow
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

The Goebbels Experiment
by Lutz Hachmeister and Michael Kloft, Directors
Reviewed by Artur Golczewski

Handbook of Computer Game Studies
Joost Raessens and Jeffrey Goldstein, Eds.
Reviewed by John Knight

Images Of A Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos
by Robin Chapman & Julien Clinton Sprott
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

Interzone——Media Arts in Australia
by Darren Tofts; Ashley Crawford, New Art Series Ed.
Reviewed by Mike Leggett

Journeys of a Sufi Musician
by Kudsi Erguner; Trans. Annette Courtenay Mayers
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)

New Media in Art, 2nd Edition
by Michael Rush
Reviewed by John Knight

Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe
by Joseph Hillel and Patrick Demers, Directors
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Rocky Road to Dublin
by Peter Lennon, Director; Raoul Coutard, Cinematographer
and
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
by Paul Duane, Director; with Peter Lennon & Raoul Coutard
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Über die Beziehung zur Welt (Relating to Reality)

by Andrea Gaugusch
Reviewed by Frieder Nake

User: InfoTechnoDemo
by Peter Lunenfeld; Mieke Gerritzen, Visuals
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.



January 2006

An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms
by Neil C. Jones and Pavel A. Pevzner
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

August Sander: People of the 20th Century
by Reiner Holzemer, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens

Earth-Mapping: Artists Reshaping Landscape
by Edward S. Casey
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Heckeled? Contra-versial Insights into ArtScience
Reviewed by Richard Kade

IT Project Proposals: Writing to Win
by Paul Coombs
Reviewed by Dene Grigar

Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden
by Christian Tschumi; photographs by Markuz Wernli Saito
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Modern House 2
by Clare Melhuish, Editor
Reviewed by Maria Buteler

Monte Grande——What Is Life?
by Franz Reichle, Director; featuring Francisco Varela and H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, XIV Dalai Lama
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Paper War: Nazi Propaganda in One Battle, On a Single Day, Cassino, Italy, May 11, 1944
Introduction by Randall Bytwerk
and
The Goebbels Experiment
by Lutz Hachmeister and Michael Kloft, Directors
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Prostranstvennaja Musica (Spatial Music)
by Bulat Galeyev, Editor
Partially reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen

Regular or Super——Views on Mies van der Rohe
by Joseph Hillel and Patrick Demers, Directors
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg

Setting the Record Straight: A Material History of Classical Recording
by Colin Symes
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen






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