Cette page propose des biographies d'artistes classées par région géographique d'origine, deux sites dédiés à l'art numérique ainsi qu'une bibliothèque virtuelle composée de textes majeurs sur l'art lié aux medias, à la science et aux technologies.
Articles
Interview with Sadie Plant Sadie Plant; interview by Brett Stalbaum and Geri Wittig 1999-10-14 3:00 pm - Sadie Plant is Research Fellow and Director of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick, UK. Continuer |
Variable Media Glossary 2007-02-08 4:00 pm - This glossary does not pretend to provide an exhaustive overview of the jargon used in new media preservation, but simply an explanation for the technical terms used in this publication. Underlining indicates terms defined elsewhere in the glossary. Continuer |
Livres
Art and Innovation.The Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence Program Art and Innovation explores the process that grew from this pairing of new media artists and scientists working at the frontier of developing technologies. In addition to discussing specific works created during several long-term residencies, the artists and researchers reveal the similarities and differences in their approaches and perspectives as they engage each other in a search for new methods for communication and creativity. Continuer |
Art et Internet. Les nouvelles figures de la création Jean-Paul Fourmentraux L'ouvrage analyse les dynamiques et tensions de cette articulation de la recherche technologique et de l’innovation artistique. Il examine les modalités d'émergence d'un monde de l'art centré sur l'Internet, ainsi que l’institution de nouvelles conventions de travail et d'échange culturel. Quels sont ici les ressorts de la mise en œuvre d’art ? Que signifie être auteur ? Quelles formes d’exposition et de réception sont imaginées ? Continuer |
Bibliographie générale de l’art technologique La "bibliographie générale" de l'Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et des Technosciences propose une sélection d'ouvrages et de publications de différentes natures, à la croisée entre les arts, les sciences et les technologies. Elle est évolutive. La bibliographie est composée d’ouvrages (livres mais aussi catalogues de manifestations et actes de colloques) publiés dans différentes langues. Continuer |
Bibliographie sur les fondements culturels de la mondialisation Julien Knebusch Cette bibliographie Leonardo présente un ensemble d'ouvrages divers (relevant aussi bien de la littérature que de la philosophie, de la géographie ou de la critique de l’art électronique aujourd’hui, etc.) sur la mondialisation, interrogée à partir de sa raison d'être. Ces auteurs, de façon directe ou indirecte, traitent la question des ressorts profonds de ce phéomène. Continuer |
Critical Art Ensemble All texts by this influential and important collective who explore the intersections between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory, are seminal. Continuer |
Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age. From Method to Metaphor Richard Coyne Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age puts the theoretical discussion of computer systems and information technology on a new footing. Shifting the discourse from its usual rationalistic framework, Richard Coyne shows how the conception, development, and application of computer systems is challenged and enhanced by postmodern philosophical thought. Continuer |
Information Arts. Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology Steve Wilson In this compendium, Wilson offers the first comprehensive survey of international artists who incorporate concepts and research from mathematics, the physical sciences, biology, kinetics, telecommunications, and experimental digital systems such as artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing. Continuer |
Media Art Net «Media Art Net» foremost promotes topical cross references offering various access points. Continuer |
MediaArtHistories edited by Oliver Grau Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's inventions and 1960s Kinetic and Op Art. Continuer |
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality The Website is the interactive companion to the book of the same title, Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. A unique collection of seminal essays, the print edition traces a fertile series of collaborations between the arts and the sciences, going back to the years just after World War II – and even further, to composer Richard Wagner, whose ideas about the immersive nature of music theater foreshadowed the experience of virtual reality. Continuer |
Sarai Reader 01 The Public Domain This collection of texts can be read as one amongst many attempts to design Public Domains. Today's electronic street cultures, active in 'invisible' yet terribly real cities, are crying to be shaped. Their chaotic and often contradictory forms do not have to be scaled down or tamed. Instead, they can be taken further, into eccentric orbits of freedom and solidarity, even if the possibility of spiralling into dystopias of violence never seems far away. Continuer |
Sarai Reader 02 The Cities of Everyday Life This Sarai Reader brings together a range of critical thinking on urban life and the contemporary, marked by spreading media cultures, new social conflict and globalisation. Scholars, media practitioners, critics and activists use a flow of images, memories and hidden realities to create an array of original interventions in thinking about cities today. Continuer |
Sarai Reader 03 Shaping Technologies The book brings to the fore a series of situations and predicaments that mark the encounter between people and machines, between nature and culture, and between knowledge and power. Continuer |
Tester Book (Trabajo de nodos / Adabegiak lanean / Nodes at work) Coordinators of the TESTER project The full Tester book is available online. Published in Basque, Spanish and English, the Tester book forms a collection of essays which are brand new on the Basque scene, related to digital culture, the new support systems for art, and contemporary culture from a political conception of art. Continuer |
The Book for the Electronic Arts Arjen Mulder and Maaike Post The essays in this book were written with a lay audience in mind and describe the cultural, scientifi, art historic, military-political and socioeconomic backgrounds with which electronic art is in dialogue. Continuer |
The Digital Dialectic. New Essays on New Media The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. Continuer |
The Language of New Media Lev Manovich In this book Lev Manovich offers a systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. Continuer |
The Leonardo Almanac. International Resources in Art, Science and Technology The Leonardo Almanac is an invaluable one-stop resource for those who are working at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology. Included are profiles of major individuals, institutions and companies active in related fields. The organizations directory alone contains more than 500 entries for artist-in-residence, fellowship, sound and music, video and holography programs. Continuer |
The Visual Mind. Art and Mathematics Collaboration between artists and mathematicians is of greater interest today than at any time since the Renaissance. Mathematicians are looking at visual representations in new ways, while many artists today have profound interest in new technologies and new approaches. The Visual Mind includes 36 chapters covering Geometry and Visualization, Computer Graphics, Symmetry, and Perspective, with introductions on each of these topics. The chapters are richly illustrated in color and in black and white. Continuer |
Virtual Art. From Illusion to Immersion Oliver Grau In this book Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us to understand the phenomenon of virtual reality beyond the hype. Continuer |
À l’honneur cette année
Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) 30 Sep 1993 - The Leonardo/ISAST and MIT Press’ electronic journal dedicated to providing a forum for those who are interested in the realm of where art, science & technology converge. Continuer |
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