January 2010



The Arts of China, Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded
by Michael Sullivan
Reviewed by Amy Ione


City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America
by Rebecca E. Biron, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher


Creating Insecurity: Art and Culture in the Age of Security
by Wolfgang Sützl & Geoff Cox, Editors
Reviewed by Jussi Parikka


Critical Play: Radical Game Design
by Mary Flanagan
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher


Delete. The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Reviewed by Jan Baetens


From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition
by Giovanna Fossati
Reviewed by Mike Leggett


In Search of Memory
by Petra Seeger
Reviewed by Rob Harle


The Metamorphosis of Plants
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; introduction and photographs by Gordon L. Miller
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold


The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracy
by Wiebe E. Bijker, Roland Bal and Ruud Hendriks
Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi


Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display
by Howard Wainer
Reviewed by John F. Barber


Superhuman: Revolution of the Species
Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
Reviewed by Hannah Star Rogers


The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood
Reviewed by George Gessert


Materials Received Plymouth December 2009
Compiled by John Vines