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Leonardo Reviews: January 2010 – September 2016 Exposing the Film Apparatus - The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
Handbook of Collective Intelligence
The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film
Barnstorming the Prairies. How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest
Leon Golub Powerplay: The Political Portraits
Raqs Media Collective: Casebook
The Scientist and The Forger: Insights into the Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintings
The Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk
The Curatorial Conundrum
Holograms: A Cultural History
Music of Morocco: From the Library of Congress, Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959
Seen and Imagined: The World of Clifford Ross
Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
How Games Move Us: Emotion By Design
Rituals
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture
The Process That Is the World: Cage/Deleuze/Events/Performances
Avant-Garde Museology
Art, Peace and Transcendence: Réograms That Elevate and Unite
Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and The Architectural Association
Stan VanDerBeek: Poemfield
When I was A Photographer
Women's Views: The Narrative Stereograph in Nineteenth-Century America
Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048
A Geology of Media
Diffractive Technospaces: A Feminist Approach to the Mediations of Space and Representation
Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity
The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature
The Leonardo Series: Drawings by Anthony Panzera Based on Leonardo da Vinci's Work on Human Proportion
The Subject of Aesthetics
Trees of the Brain Roots of the Mind
African Art, Interviews, Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work
Biocentrism and Modernism
Bloom: Edward Chell
Dreaming: A Conceptual Framework for Philosophy of Mind and Empirical Research
Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited
Singular Images, Failed Copies: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph
Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice
Art and Science: Works from the Collection of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser und die Künste // Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts Camouflage Cultures: Beyond the Art of Disappearance
The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema
Green: The History of a Color
Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home
Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History
Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of The Americas
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers, Second Edition
SoftImage: Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image
The Storm of Creativity
The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate East Asia
An Introduction to Neuroaesthetics: The Neuroscientific Approach to Aesthetic Experience, Artistic Creativity, and Arts Appreciation
Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age
Sara Angelucci: Provenance Unknown
Simple Thoughts
What is Landscape?
Atlas of Knowledge: Anyone Can Map
Barry Le Va: The Aesthetic Aftermath
Headhunters: The Search for a Science of the Mind
The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
Studios Before the System. Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
The November 2015 Issue of Leonardo Digital Reviews Remembers Martha Blassnigg The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing
Sara Angelucci: Provenance Unknown
Textures of The Anthropocene: Grain Vapor Ray
The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Perception
Art in the Life of Mathematicians
Kyoto Conference 2015—Beyond the Extended Mind: Different Bodies, Dolls, Female Soul and Eastern Spirit
Mapping Spaces: Networks of Knowledge in 17th Century Landscape Painting
Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy
Poetics & Politics: A Documentary Research Symposium
The Way Things Go: An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism
The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online
My Father's House: On Will Barnet's Paintings
Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 23 November-14 December 1974
The Container Principle: How a Box Changes the Way We Think
World Projects: Global Information before World War I
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real
Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware
Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation
Federico Fellini: Making A Film
Other Planes of There: Selected Writings
Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67
Une Archeologie des Media, Exhibition, Seconde Nature
Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs
The Emergence of Video Processing Tools, Vols.1 and 2
Laruelle: Against the Digital
Foucault contre lui-même (Foucault Against Himself)
Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World
Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics
How Reading Is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein
After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain
Cine-Dispositives: Essays in Epistemology Across Media
Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art
The Practice Of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels
Sampling Media
Technè/Technology. Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies: The Key Debates Series.
Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman
To Tell the Truth: Working for Change: Documenting Hard Times (1929-1941)
Tweeting Da Vinci
World War 3 Illustrated 1979-2014
The Conscious Mind
The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter
Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain
Geometric Design: An Artful Portfolio of Mathematical Graphics
Idolatry and Infinity: Of Art, Math, and God
The Imaginary App
Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist
Making Mind: Moral Sense and Consciousness in Philosophy, Science, and Literature
Science and Art: The Painted Surface
Susan Goethel Campbell: Field Guide
The Unleashed Scandal: The End of Control in the Digital Age
Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930
Raqs Media Collective: Casebook
Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory
Subjective Time: The Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience of Temporality
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Curatorial Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925-1941
Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression
Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism
Art, Science, and Cultural Understanding
The Intelligence of a Machine
TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
Neuroscience: A Historical Introduction
Poetic Language: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
Retracing the Expanded Field: Encounters between Art and Architecture
Avebury Stones Selected Shaped Carved
Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art
Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies
Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment
Zen-Brain Horizons: Towards a Living Zen
Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum's Library
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
META-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts
The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
Animating Film Theory
The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks and What to Do about It
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation: The Negotiation of Values in Fiction
Fluxus: The Practice of Non-Duality
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
If You Could Read My Mind
The 2014 Conference on Neuroesthetics: Seeing Knowing - Vision, Knowledge, Cognition and Aesthetics
Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
Forgetting the Art World
Love Objects. Emotion, Design and Material Culture
Your Everyday Art World
Re-Collection: Art, New Media and Social Memory
Self-Projection: The Director's Image in Art Cinema
From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind and Cultural Evolution
Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967-2007
Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation
The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
Avant-Garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture
La culture scientifique: pour quoi faire
Literary Gaming
Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics
Visualise: Making Art in Context
Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship
The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
Uncertainty in Games
The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies
Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture & the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
Soft Estate
Zombie 'Pataphysics and Trains Why Not
Seeing is Believing: The Politics of the Visual
Super Cells: Building with Biology
Triple Entendre: Furniture Music, Muzak, Muzak-Plus
Electric Signs
On Listening
Synthetic Aesthetic
The Sixth Extinction
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital
Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Post War Art
The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities
The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962
New Guide to Poetry and Poetics
The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
Matter and Consciousness (3rd Edition)
The World's Next Supermodels
Art and the Senses
Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
Divine Fury: A History of Genius
Illusion Confusion: The Wonderful World of Optical Deception
Relive: Media Art Histories
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Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics
Dreams Before Extinction: Naeemeh Naeemaei
Memes in Digital Culture
The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-First Century
The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Photographic Theory: An Historical Anthology
Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
700 Artists' Processes
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Interactive Audiovisual Objects
Molecular Aesthetics
Sensing Change
Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
The Grand Old Lady of Modern Art: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase
Sea Change
Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind
The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945) by Suzanne Césaire
Action Science: Foundations of an Emerging Discipline
After Art
How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)
Nancy Holt: Sightlines
Understanding Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain
Black Africa, White Marble
The Heretical Archive. Digital memory at the end of Film
Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Ar
Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan
From Postwar to Postmodern: Art in Japan 1945-1989
Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime
"Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron
Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Game Play
The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses
Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Surrealist Ghostliness
Theatre, Opera and Consciousness, History and Current Debates
Tromper l’ennemi: L’invention du camouflage moderne en 1914-1918 Visual Histories: Photography in the Popular Imagination
Art + Science Now: How Scientific Research and Technological Innovation are Becoming Key to 21st Century Aesthetics
At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature
Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds
Ferocious Reality: Documentary According to Werner Herzog
The Melancholy Art
Russia: A World Apart
Illusions in Motion. Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles
In the Field: The Art of Field Recording
Otherness in Hollywood Cinema
People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding the Electric Age
Beyond Contemporary Art
The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, Revised Edition
My Life
Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India
Art Beyond Art: Ecoaesthetics, a Manifesto for the 21st Century
Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp
Digital_Humanities
From the Enlightenment to Test Bed for the Future: Edinburgh International Science Festival
The Fairies Return: Or, New Tales for Old
Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures
Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s
What Was Contemporary Art?
Agents of Uncertainty – Mysticism, Scepticism, Buddhism, Art and Poetry
Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel
The Substance: One Drop Changes Everything
Philosophical Essays: A Critical Edition – Fernando Pessoa
Pataphysics: A Useless Guide
Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Captain Cap (vol.1)
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
Interacting: Art, Research and the Creative Practitioner
The Invention of Heterosexual Culture
Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright
America's Other Audubon
Cameron Live!
Computers and Creativity
Computing: A Concise History
The Loving Story
MP3: The Meaning of a Format
Music, Sound and Technology in America
A Natural History of Laughter
Painting with Architecture in Mind
Transformative Beauty: Art Museums in Industrial Britain
Waves
Artwork A Boatload of Wild Irishmen
Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers: The Printer as Designer and Craftsman 1700-1914
The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking
Rockwell Kent Missions for Thoughtful Gamers
Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel
The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
Berenice Abbott: Documenting Science Digital_Humanities Gerard Caris: Beşgencilik/Pentagonism Graphic Design Process: From Problem to Solution Linotype: The Film Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II. The Russia of Czar Nicholas II in laboriously restored historical color photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics
The Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude
To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet The Visual Language of Herbert Matter The Alphabet and the Algorithm The Color Revolution Into Eternity Science and Conscience: The Life of James Franck Selected Writings: On Self-Organization, Philosophy, Bioethics, and Judaism The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science October 2012 Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation by Beth Coleman; forward by Clay Shirky Reviewed by Dr. Ornella Corazza The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 by Elizabeth Edwards Reviewed by Jan Baetens Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács by Bill Nichols and Michael Renov (eds.) Reviewed by Nico de Klerk Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity by Simon Goldhill Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng Boyamba Belgique: Or Why a King Should Not Lose His Sword by Dries Engels and Bart Van Peel, Directors and Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa by Joël Calmettes Reviewed by Mike Mosher The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson Reviewed by Allan Graubard Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory by Markku Eskelinen Reviewed by Jan Baetens Deadline Every Second: On Assignment with 12 Associated Press Photojournalists by Ken Kobré, John Hewitt, Producers Reviewed by Amy Ione Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance by Hanna Rose Shell Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith Hiroshi Sugimoto: Memories of Origin by Yuko Nakamura, Director Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini Lines of Control: Exhibition at Johnson Museum and Accompanying Catalogue Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space by Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University) and Hammad Nassar (Green Cardamom), Curators Reviewed by Aparna Sharma The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld, Editors Reviewed by John F. Barber The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations by Dana MacKenzie Reviewed by Phil Dyke Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition: Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum by Vince Dziekan Reviewed by Dene Grigar When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity by Shoshana Amielle Magnet Reviewed By Hannah Drayson Alien Phenomenology: Or, What It's Like To Be A Thing by Ian Bogost Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage By Branden W. Joseph Reviewed by Stephen Petersen Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi Reviewed by John F. Barber Debates in the Digital Humanities by Matthew K. Gold, Editor Reviewed by Dene Grigar Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power by Eben Kirksey Reviewed by C.F. Black The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga by Jimmy Maher Reviewed by John F. Barber High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture by Mike Jay Reviewed by Jan Baetens I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams by Mark Dery. Foreword by Bruce Sterling Reviewed by Mike Mosher The Koran: Back to the Origins of The Book by Bruno Ulmer Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg Open Access by Peter Suber Reviewed by Rob Harle State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 by Constance M. Lewallen and Karen Moss Reviewed by Mike Mosher Under Blue Cup by Rosalind E. Krauss Reviewed by Jan Baetens Coral: Rekindling Venus by Lynette Wallworth, Artist; Felix Media and Forma, Producer Reviewed by Elizabeth Straughan The Exile of Britney Spears: A Tale of 21st Century Consumption by Christopher R. Smit Reviewed by Anthony Enns New Directions in Digital Poetry by C.T. Funkhouser Reviewed by Jan Baetens Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya Rapoport by Terri Cohn, Editor; with Afterword by Roger Malina Reviewed by Amy Ione Remodelling Communication: From WWII to the WWW by Gary Genosko Reviewed by Jussi Parikka The Berkshire Glass Works by William J. Patriquin & Julie L. Sloan Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy by Mary D. Garrard Reviewed by Amy Ione Diane Arbus's 1960s: Auguries of Experience by Frederick Gross Reviewed by Jan Baetens Looking for Bruce Conner by Kevin Hatch Reviewed by Allan Graubard On Time in Film / DVD, Performance / Myself (or Video Identity) and Air's Rock by Takahiko iimura Reviewed by Mike Leggett Radio: Essays in Bad Reception by John Mowitt Reviewed by John F. Barber Rethinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking by Eran Ben-Joseph Reviewed by Jan Baetens Seducing Time: Selected Prize Winning Videotapes by Lynn Hershman Leeson 1984-2008 Microcinema International Reviewed by Mike Mosher Trade of the Tricks: Inside the Magician's Craft by Graham M. Jones Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art by Ken Johnson Reviewed by Nicolas Langlitz Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds by Louise Barrett Reviewed by Dr Elizabeth McCardell A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado by Parvati Nair Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner Reviewed by Amy Ione Infinite Instances: Studies and Images of Time by Olga Ast Reviewed by Jack Ox John Cage by Julia Robinson, Editor Reviewed by Rob Harle Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media by Jason Farman Reviewed by Dene Grigar Number Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction by Paul J. Nahim Reviewed by Irene Kaimi The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality Nicholas Mirzoeff Reviewed by Jan Baetens Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage Reviewed by John F. Barber What is Science? by Sundar Sarukkai Reviewed by Roger F Malina Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by Kara Reilly Reviewed by John F. Barber Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds by Louise Barrett Reviewed by Daniel J. Povinelli 3-D Displays and Spatial Interaction, Vol. 1 From Perception to Technology by Barry G. Blundell Reviewed by George Shortess The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution by Dean Falk Reviewed by Rob Harle Global Icons. Apertures to the Popular by Bishnupriya Ghosh Reviewed by Jan Baetens Imagery in the 21st Century by Oliver Grau, Editor; with Thomas Veigl Reviewed by Amy Ione New Art/Science Affinities by Andrea Grover, Régine Debatty, Claire Evans, Pablo Garcia, Thumb Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface by Robin Clark; foreword by Hugh M. Davies Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France by Tom Conley and The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science and Culture by SueEllen Campbell Reviewed by Mike Leggett Ship Shape: A Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook by Roy R. Behrens Reviewed by Mike Leggett Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life by Alastair Brotchie Reviewed by Allan Graubard Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Bratu Hansen Reviewed by Jan Baetens Duets: 1975-1976 by Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley Reviewed by Mike Mosher The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution by Dean Falk Reviewed by Rob Harle Great Discoveries in Medicine by William Bynum, Helen Bynum, Editors Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy by Charles Fourier; translated and with an introduction by Geoffrey Longnecker Reviewed by Mike Mosher Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian, foreword by William H. McNeill Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff Reviewed by John F. Barber Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life by Brandon LaBelle Reviewed by John F. Barber Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human by Deborah Christie, Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editors Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith Facebook's "Adorno Changed My Life" by Georg Boch, Director Reviewed by Mike Mosher Gaming Matters: Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister Reviewed by John F. Barber How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost Reviewed by John F. Barber Magical Mathematics by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham; foreword by Martin Gardner Reviewed by Phil Dyke Modernism After Wagner by Juliet Koss Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects by Paola Antonelli Reviewed by John F. Barber Twilight Visions. Surrealism and Paris by Therese Lichtenstein Reviewed by Jan Baetens Art and the Senses by Francesca Bacci and David Melcher, Editors Reviewed by Rob Harle Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo, Editors Reviewed by Allan Graubard The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence by Michael J. Graetz C.F. Black With Magnetic Fields Disrupted by Sproton Layer Reviewed by Mike Mosher Television as Digital Media by James Bennett and Niki Strange, Editors Reviewed by John F. Barber The Terror of History. On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization by Teofilo F. Ruiz Reviewed by Jan Baetens Players Unleashed! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming by Tanja Sihvonen Reviewed by Hannah Drayson The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World The Color of Your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts Through The Looking Glass Materials Received Plymouth December 2011 Contemporary Art In Asia - A Critical Reader by Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio, Editors Reviewed by Ellen Pearlman The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time by Jane Gallop Reviewed by Jan Baeten Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life by Justin E. H. Smith Reviewed by Rob Harle A Little-Known Story About a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973 by Margit Rosen, Editor Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated by Gabriella Giannachi and Nick Kaye Reviewed by Elizabeth McCardell Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection by Katharine Park Reviewed by Dr Jac Saorsa The Techno-Human Condition by Braden R. Allenby & Daniel Sarewitz Reviewed by Rob Harle Art Biennale - Venice, Italy Illuminations: 54th International Art Exhibition, June 4th - November 27th, 2011 Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann New Materials Received in Plymouth November 2011 Compiled by Martyn Ward Bach Jazz: Güher and Süher Pekinel Featuring the Jacques Loussier Trio by Barrie Gavin, Hanno Rinke, et al., Directors Reviewed by Richard Kade Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law by Kembrew McLeod & Rudolf Kuenzli, Editors Reviewed by Rob Harle Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979 by Destroy All Monsters Reviewed by Mike Mosher A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field: Bridging the Humanities -Neuroscience Divide by Barbara Maria Stafford, Editor Reviewed by Rob Harle Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution by George Gessert Reviewed by Craig Hilton Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, Editors Reviewed by Amy Ione Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan Dancing by Ann Cooper Albright Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini Remixthebook by Mark Amerika Reviewed by Jan Baetens Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, and Maria Papadomanolaki, Editors Reviewed by John F. Barber September 2011 Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians, Brandon Ballengée Nicola Triscott and Miranda Pope, Editors Reviewed by Mike Leggett The Milemete Treatise and Companion Secretum Secretorum: Iconography, Audience, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century England by Libby Karlinger Escobedo Reviewed by Rob Harle The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. Berry Reviewed by Jussi Parikka Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin by Riccardo Manzotti Reviewed by Amy Ione Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicolas de Monchaux Reviewed by Valérie Lamontagne Materials Received Plymouth September 2011 Compiled by Martyn Woodward August 2011 Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive Bauhaus Dream-house - Modernity and globalization by Katerina Rüedi Ray Reviewed by Florence Martellini Celluloid Symphonies. Texts and Contexts in Film Music History Julie Hubbert, Editor Reviewed by Jan Baetens Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology by Susan Broadhurst Reviewed by Rob Harle Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man by Mark Changizi Reviewed by Richard Kade by Lisa B. Osborn, Shane K. Bernard, and Scott Carroll, Editors Reviewed by Allan Graubard Inside Jokes — Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Editors Reviewed by Edith Doove Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention by Paul Scheerbart; Andrew Joron, Translator Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica Materials Received Plymouth August 2011 Compiled by Martyn Woodward July 2011 Arnheim for Film and Media Studies ArtScience: A Journey Through Creativity - permanent exhibition and Travelling the Silk Road exhibition Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work East Bay Open Studios Preview Exhibition and East Bay Open Studios 2011 Fastwürms Donky@Ninja@Witch: A Living Retrospective
The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing
The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine Think Art - Act Science (Pensar art – Actuar ciència): Swiss artists-in-labs Visceral: The Living Art Experiment New materials received - July 2011 Affect and Artificial Intelligence by Elizabeth A. Wilson Reviewed by Jussi Parikka A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City by Despina Stratigakos Reviewed by Zainub Verjee Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe by Nikos Kotsopoulos, Editor Reviewed by Florence Martellini Grafik Dynamo by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett, with essay by Joseph Tabbi Reviewed by Dene Grigar Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema by David A. Kirby and From IBM to MGM: Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age by Andrew Utterson Reviewed by Mike Leggett Le Sel de la Semaine: Henry Miller by Fernand Seguin Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture by Christine L. Marran and The Rule of Mars: Readings on the Origins. History and Impact of Patriarchy by Cristina Biaggi, Editor Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg Making Art History: A Changing Discipline and Its Institutions by Elizabeth C. Mansfield, Editor Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg Theories of International Politics and Zombies by Daniel W. Drezner Reviewed by Anna B.Creagh Water, Place, & Equity by John M. Whiteley, Helen Ingram & Richard Warren Perry, Editors Reviewed by Zainub Verjee Zones of Re-membering: Time, Memory, and (un)Consciousness by Don Gifford; D. E. Morse, Editor Reviewed by Rob Harle New Materials Received - June 2011 Compiled by Martyn Woodward Compression & Purity by Will Alexander Reviewed by Allan Graubard Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond Buttons by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Soren Pold, Editors Reviewed by Ellen Pearlman The Filming of Modern Life. European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s by Malcolm Turvey Reviewed by Jan Baetens Lumo: One Woman's Struggle to Heal in a Nation Beset by War by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker III Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg Paris 1919: Inside The Peace Talks That Changed The World by Paul Cowan Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg Octopus Time: Bellmer Painting by Herbert Lust Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siècle Art by Alison Syme Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher U-n-f-o-l-d: A Cultural Response to Climate Change Museum of Contemporary Photography and Glass Curtain Gallery Reviewed by Elizabeth Straughan, Deborah Dixon and Harriet Hawkins New Materials Received - May 2011 Compiled by Martyn Woodward April 2011 Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000 by Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid, Editors Reviewed by Mike Leggett Performing the Archive: The Transformation of the Archives in Contemporary Art from Repository of Documents to Art Medium by Simone Osthoff Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg Transdiscourse 1: Mediated Environments by Andrea Gleiniger, Angelika Hilbeck, Jill Scott, Editors Reviewed by Rob Harle In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon Reviewed by Amy Ione New Realisms: 1957-1962: Object Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacle by Julia Robinson, Editor Reviewed by Stephen Petersen La science (n')e(s)t (pas) l'art : Brèves rencontres by Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond Reviewed by Jacques Mandelbrojt New Materials Received - April 2011 Compiled by Martyn Woodward March 2011 Air by John Knechtel, Editor Reviewed by Jan Baetens Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher Regards croisés: Perspectives on Digital Literature by Sandy Baldwin and Philippe Bootz, Editors Reviewed by Jan Baetens The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk, Editors Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara New Materials Received - March 2011 Compiled by Martyn Woodward February 2011
January 2011 3D Typography and Hypertext and the Female Imaginary Leo Villareal On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science Nancy Spero: The Work Perpetual Inventory Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice Surrounded By Waves We Can Change The Weather - 100 Cases of Changeability December 2010 November 2010 Reviewed by Simone Osthoff Method Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture by Jim Collins Reviewed by Jan Baetens Charles M Schulz: My Life with Charlie Brown by M. Thomas Inge, Editor, and (introduction) Reviewed by Richard Land Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design by Greg Castillo Reviewed by Lisa Graham Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight by David A. Mindell Reviewed by Maureen Nappi Liverpool Biennial: International Festival of Contemporary Art Liverpool, UK Reviewed by Edith Doove Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11 by Richard Grusin Reviewed by Jussi Parikka Materials Received Plymouth, September 2010 Compiled by John Vines The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) by Ellen Kuras, Director; Thavisouk Phrasavath, Co-Director Reviewed by Abhijit Sen Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space by Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel, Editors Reviewed by Martha Patricia Nino Fleeing from Absence: Four Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Time, Its Nature and Its Interpretations by Olga Ast and Jula Druk Reviewed by Jack Ox Inside the Death Drive: Excess and Apocalypse in the World of the Chapman Brothers (Tate Liverpool Critical Forum, Vol. 11) by Jonathan Harris (ed.) Reviewed by Rob Harle La Scomparsa dell’Orologio Universale: Peter Watkins e I Mass Media Audiovisivi (The Disappearance of The Universal Clock : Peter Watkins and Audio Visual Mass Media) by German A. Duarte Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi Now Is the Time: Art & Theory in the 21st Century by Christel Vesters (coordinating editor), Jelle Bouwhuis, Ingrid Commandeur, Gijs Frieling, Margriet Schavemaker, Domeniek Ruyters, Editors Reviewed by Ian Verstegen Mapping the Moving Image. Gesture, Thought and Cinema circa 1900 by Pasi Väliaho Reviewed by Jan Baetens Music and Cyberliberties by Patrick Burkart Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi Out Of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness by Alva Noë Reviewed by John Vines Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting by Dale A.Olsen Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg New Materials Recieved Plymouth August 2010 Compiled by John Vines by Gerfried Stocker, Christa Sommerer, and L.aurent Mignonneau, Editors Reviewed by Rob Harle Dada in Paris by Michel Sanouillet; Michèle Humbert, Editorial Consultant; trans. by Sharmila Ganguly; revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History by Simon Werrett Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space by Jody Berland Reviewed by Jan Baetens Michael Snow: Wavelength by Elizabeth Legge Mike Leggett A Mysterious Masterpiece: The World of the Linder Gallery by Michael John Gorman, Editor Reviewed by Amy Ione Performing the Past: Memory, History and Identity in Modern Europe by Karin Tilmans, Frank Van Vree, Jay Winter, Editors Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks by Alexander Russo Reviewed by John F. Barber Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy by Erin Manning Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg Time, Memory, Consciousness and the Cinema Experience: Revisiting Ideas on Matter and Spirit by Martha Blassnigg Reviewed by Anthony Enns Words, by Bob Brown by Craig Saper, Editor, with an Afterword Reviewed by Jan Baetens Materials Recieved Plymouth August 2010 Compiled by John Vines Art + Science Now by Stephen Wilson Reviewed by Hannah Star Rogers Call Me Us by Tristan Honsinger and Massimo Simonini Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg Greening Through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability by Bill Tomlinson Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia) The Nine Lives of Noradom Sihanouk by Giles Cayatte Mike Leggett North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space by Jody Berland Reviewed by Jan Baetens Loussier Trio Play Bach: 1989 Munich Concert by Dieter Hens and Jacques Loussier Trio: Play Bach… and More: 2004 Leipzig Concert by Andreas Morell Reviewed by Richard Kade The Readies by Bob Brown, Editor; with an Afterword by Craig Saper Reviewed by Jan Baetens Stance: Ideas About Emotion, Style, And Meaning For The Study Of Expressive Culture by Harris M. Berger Reviewed by Jan Baetens War and Love in Kabul by Helga Reidemeister Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg Materials Revieved Plymouth July 2010 Compiled by John Vines A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body by Ed Cohen Reviewed by C.F. Black Beyond the Screen. Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla, Editors Reviewed by Jan Baetens Enactive Cinema – Simulatorium Eisensteinense by Pia Tikka Reviewed by Mike Leggett Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth by Robert Poole Reviewed by Stephen Petersen Lewis’s Fifth Floor: A Department Story by Stephen King, Photographer; introduction by Deborah Mulhern Reviewed by: Aparna Sharma The Manga Guide™ to Calculus by Hiroyuki Kojima, Shin Togami, and Becom Co., LTD Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher The Moving Earth by Lars Becker-Larsen, Director Reviewed by Amy Ione Surprise in Texas: The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition by Peter Rosen Reviewed by Richard Kade New Materials Received May 2010 Compiled by John Vines Arquitecturas Genéticas lll / Genetic Architectures lll: New Bio & Digital Techniques by Alberto T. Estévez, Editor Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia) Capturing the Criminal Image: From Mug Shot to Surveillance Society by Jonathan Finn Reviewed by Jan Baetens Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software by Mizuko Ito and Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds by Celiia Pearce and Artemesia Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher D-BA 2 Digital-Botanic Architecture 11: eTrees, Digital Nature, & BioArchitecture by Dennis Dollens Reviewed by Rob Harle The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies From the Dark Side of Digital Culture by Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson, Editors Reviewed by Gary Genosko When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America by David E. Nye Reviewed by Jan Baetens Materials Received Plymouth May 2010 Compiled by John Vines April 2010 Architecture & Biomimetics Series 3 - The Pangolin's Guide to Bio-Digital Movement in Architecture by Dennis Dollens Reviewed by Rob Harle The Blender Gamekit, 2nd Edition: Interactive 3D for Artists by Carsten Wartmann, Editor Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution by Phillip Prodger Reviewed by Amy Ione Cyberculture and New Media by Francisco J. Ricardo, Editor Reviewed by John F. Barber Eddy Loves Frank by The Eddy Palermo Big Band and Fear Draws Misfortune by Cheer Accident Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology by André Nusselder Reviewed by Rob Harle Migratory Settings; Thamyris Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Series 19 by Murat Aydemir and Alex Rotas, Editors Reviewed by Chris Speed The Poetics of Space: Spatial Explorations in Art, Science, Music and Technology Sonic Acts XIII Festival and Sonic Acts XIII - The Poetics of Space by Arie Altena & Sonic Acts, Editors Reviewed by Trace Reddell March 2010 Art and Artistic Research. Music, Visual Art, Design, Literature, Dance by Corina Caduff, Fiona Siegenthaler, and Tan Wälchli, Editors Reviewed by Jan Baetens Cyberculture and New Media by Francisco J. Ricardo, Editor Reviewed by John F. Barber My Sunshine Nikola Uzunovski at the Federico Luger Gallery Reviewed by Giovanna Costantini The Italian Concerto by Heiner Goebbels Hommage/Vier Fäuste für Hanns Eisler (1976) and Von Sprengen des Gartens (1978/9) by Heiner Goebbels and Alfred Harth Reviewed by Mike Leggett Messiaen et autour de Messiaen for Onde Martenot and Piano by Nadia Ratsimandresy & Matteo Ramon Arevalos ; compositions by Olivier Messiaen, N'Guyen-Thien Dao, Jacques Charpentier and Tristan Murail Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music by Roger T. Dean, Editor Reviewed by Jane Grant The Place Where You Go to Listen: In Search of an Ecology of Music by John Luther Adams; foreword by Alex Ross Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi Poetry, Consciousness and Community by Christopher (Kit) Kelen Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia) What Is Contemporary Art? by Terry Smith Reviewed by Lara Schrijver Materials Received Plymouth February 2010 Compiled by John Vines Black Sun: The Mythological Background Of National Socialism by Rüdiger Sünner , Director Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and their Players by Jesper Juul Reviewed by Robert Jackson CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting by Barry F. Saunders Reviewed by Hannah Drayson The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin by Matthew Biro Reviewed by Kieran Lyons Font. The Sourcebook by Nadine Monem, Editor Reviewed by Amy Ione Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video by Glen M. Mimura Reviewed by Aparna Sharma The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore by Jean-Luc Henning; trans. Ariana Reines, with Grisélidis Réal Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition by Rudolf Arnheim Reviewed by Giovanna Costantini The World According to Monsanto/Le Monde Selon Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg The Rule of Mars by Cristina Biaggi, Editor Reviewed by Helen Levin Russian and the Soviet Views of Modern Western Art Ð 1890s to Mid-1930s by Ilia Dorontchenkov Reviewed by Florence Martellini Seeds of Hunger by Yves Billy and Richard Prost, Directors Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture by Frances Dyson Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy Reviewed by Jan Baetens Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, Editors Reviewed by Craig Hilton Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders Reviewed by John F. Barber Materials Received Plymouth January 2010 Compiled by John Vines 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 |