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Euphoria & Dystopia - huge new media art reader out now
Deadline:
Mon Apr 30, 2012 23:20
Location:
Banff,
Canada
Banff Centre Press and Riverside Architectural Press, in association with OCAD University and The University of Sunderland announce the release of Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues.
The 1100 page anthology is edited by Sarah Cook and Sara Diamond. Featuring worldwide pioneers, artists and cultural icons, and digital-industry innovators; Euphoria & Dystopia documents the key decade of Canada's Banff New Media Institute, between 1995 and 2005. Attracted by innovative programming set against Banff’s extraordinary mountain landscape, hundreds of international practitioners were brought together to debate the new forms wrought by technology. This volume charts the rise of the emerging field of digital media art and industry, through those discussions. It is essential reading for scholars, developers, and theorists of new media.
A copy of the table of contents is available for download here: http://www.riversidearchitecturalpress.com/current_publications/euphoria_dystopia/sample/EuphoriaDystopia_TOC.pdf
Euphoria & Dystopia contains essays by Sandra Buckley, Steve Dietz, Jean Gagnon, N. Katherine Hayles, Susan Kennard, Eric Kluitenberg, Jeff Lieper and Allucquere Rosanne Stone.
The contents of Euphoria & Dystopia include over 150 original transcripts drawn from thousands of hours of audio material from the annual Interactive Screen event and numerous summits and annual workshops. The book is organized by themes that range from data visualization to the interface of technology and the body to curating to gaming. It includes fully annotated references and biographies of participants, a detailed list of events that took place at Banff between 1995 and 2005. The book also includes commissioned essays from the co-editors and from leading new-media theorists. Included is the catalogue of the exhibition The Art Formerly Known As New Media (2005) and a DVD of HorizonZero, the groundbreaking bilingual electronic journal produced at Banff from 2002 to 2004.
Sara Diamond is the Founding Director of the Banff New Media Institute, and served as Artistic Director of Media & Visual Arts and Director of Research at The Banff Centre. Her work with the BNMI included creating numerous international research partnerships and securing support for emerging new-media businesses. In 2005, she became the President and Vice-Chancellor of OCAD University in Toronto, Canada.
Sarah Cook is a curator and writer based in the United Kingdom. Working as a postdoctoral research fellow at The Banff Centre until 2006, she curated exhibitions for the Walter Phillips Gallery, helped to found the Banff International Curatorial Institute, and participated in summits at the Banff New Media Institute.
To order a copy of Euphoria & Dystopia please go to: http://www.amazon.com/Euphoria-Dystopia-Banff-Institute-Dialogues/dp/1894773225 or http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/39/euphoria-and-dystopia.mvc
Media contacts:
Riverside Architectural Press, Eric Bury, 416-766-8284, contact@riversidearchitecturalpress.com
Banff Centre Press, Jill Sawyer, 403-762-6475, Jill_Sawyer@banffcentre.ca
Distribution contacts:
ABC Art Books Canada Distribution, www.abcartbookscanada.com
Literary Press Group of Canada, www.lpg.ca
The 1100 page anthology is edited by Sarah Cook and Sara Diamond. Featuring worldwide pioneers, artists and cultural icons, and digital-industry innovators; Euphoria & Dystopia documents the key decade of Canada's Banff New Media Institute, between 1995 and 2005. Attracted by innovative programming set against Banff’s extraordinary mountain landscape, hundreds of international practitioners were brought together to debate the new forms wrought by technology. This volume charts the rise of the emerging field of digital media art and industry, through those discussions. It is essential reading for scholars, developers, and theorists of new media.
A copy of the table of contents is available for download here: http://www.riversidearchitecturalpress.com/current_publications/euphoria_dystopia/sample/EuphoriaDystopia_TOC.pdf
Euphoria & Dystopia contains essays by Sandra Buckley, Steve Dietz, Jean Gagnon, N. Katherine Hayles, Susan Kennard, Eric Kluitenberg, Jeff Lieper and Allucquere Rosanne Stone.
The contents of Euphoria & Dystopia include over 150 original transcripts drawn from thousands of hours of audio material from the annual Interactive Screen event and numerous summits and annual workshops. The book is organized by themes that range from data visualization to the interface of technology and the body to curating to gaming. It includes fully annotated references and biographies of participants, a detailed list of events that took place at Banff between 1995 and 2005. The book also includes commissioned essays from the co-editors and from leading new-media theorists. Included is the catalogue of the exhibition The Art Formerly Known As New Media (2005) and a DVD of HorizonZero, the groundbreaking bilingual electronic journal produced at Banff from 2002 to 2004.
Sara Diamond is the Founding Director of the Banff New Media Institute, and served as Artistic Director of Media & Visual Arts and Director of Research at The Banff Centre. Her work with the BNMI included creating numerous international research partnerships and securing support for emerging new-media businesses. In 2005, she became the President and Vice-Chancellor of OCAD University in Toronto, Canada.
Sarah Cook is a curator and writer based in the United Kingdom. Working as a postdoctoral research fellow at The Banff Centre until 2006, she curated exhibitions for the Walter Phillips Gallery, helped to found the Banff International Curatorial Institute, and participated in summits at the Banff New Media Institute.
To order a copy of Euphoria & Dystopia please go to: http://www.amazon.com/Euphoria-Dystopia-Banff-Institute-Dialogues/dp/1894773225 or http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/39/euphoria-and-dystopia.mvc
Media contacts:
Riverside Architectural Press, Eric Bury, 416-766-8284, contact@riversidearchitecturalpress.com
Banff Centre Press, Jill Sawyer, 403-762-6475, Jill_Sawyer@banffcentre.ca
Distribution contacts:
ABC Art Books Canada Distribution, www.abcartbookscanada.com
Literary Press Group of Canada, www.lpg.ca
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media
In reply to the previous post from Chuck Ivy
Just to let you and other readers know -- the two volumes published by CRUMB together with The Green Box in Berlin (a brief history of curating/working with new media art) are newly edited reprints of material from the CRUMB website which we have been working on for a decade (see www.crumbweb.org). These interviews/conversations/dialogues are from events we have hosted and firsthand research we have done talking to curators over 10 years. The longer versions of most of the texts in those books are available online, but we thought it would be great to work with Axel Lapp (CRUMB's one-year senior research fellow) to revisit that material and make it available in book form, as a kind of 10 year birthday present to ourselves and to you! We released them to coincide with the Rethinking Curating book which Beryl and I worked on over the last five years with MIT Press, which is a larger co-authored volume, more historically minded, more academic, and drawing on these events but also material from the CRUMB discussion list, and our firsthand experience of curating and researching the literature in the field.
I wouldn't say that one book fills a gap left by the other. The interview/conversation books are 'straight from the horses mouth' (whether artist or curator or producer) and deal with topics ranging from collection to exhibition, press and reception, technology, and museum or gallery working. They are a kind of picture of a moment in time. The Rethinking Curating book provides, in our mind, a longer more detailed examination of the field with examples from artists works and from the history of curating, sometimes citing these interviews/dialogues, sometimes not. There is newer stuff in The Green Box books, in that they include conversations from 2009, after the Rethinking Curating book went to print - such is the nature of the publishing industry. In our minds, they make lovely companion volumes, and excerpts from both could be useful in a teaching context.
Looking forward to hearing more feedback from Rhizome readers.
Cheers
Sarah
Just to let you and other readers know -- the two volumes published by CRUMB together with The Green Box in Berlin (a brief history of curating/working with new media art) are newly edited reprints of material from the CRUMB website which we have been working on for a decade (see www.crumbweb.org). These interviews/conversations/dialogues are from events we have hosted and firsthand research we have done talking to curators over 10 years. The longer versions of most of the texts in those books are available online, but we thought it would be great to work with Axel Lapp (CRUMB's one-year senior research fellow) to revisit that material and make it available in book form, as a kind of 10 year birthday present to ourselves and to you! We released them to coincide with the Rethinking Curating book which Beryl and I worked on over the last five years with MIT Press, which is a larger co-authored volume, more historically minded, more academic, and drawing on these events but also material from the CRUMB discussion list, and our firsthand experience of curating and researching the literature in the field.
I wouldn't say that one book fills a gap left by the other. The interview/conversation books are 'straight from the horses mouth' (whether artist or curator or producer) and deal with topics ranging from collection to exhibition, press and reception, technology, and museum or gallery working. They are a kind of picture of a moment in time. The Rethinking Curating book provides, in our mind, a longer more detailed examination of the field with examples from artists works and from the history of curating, sometimes citing these interviews/dialogues, sometimes not. There is newer stuff in The Green Box books, in that they include conversations from 2009, after the Rethinking Curating book went to print - such is the nature of the publishing industry. In our minds, they make lovely companion volumes, and excerpts from both could be useful in a teaching context.
Looking forward to hearing more feedback from Rhizome readers.
Cheers
Sarah
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media
Thanks Nathaniel for the great review. Just one point of correction: in the last section I think you've inadvertently mixed up two different examples. NODE.London is a collaborative artist-led initiative which produced a few 'seasons' of media art. It is not by Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie, though we write about their project TV Swansong and other of their online / network-based / artist-led projects elsewhere in the book. We'd love to hear from others about what they think of the book too, no doubt we've missed a lot out!
Cheers
Sarah
Cheers
Sarah
Between Spaces: On Xcult.org's "Beam Me Up"
Hello Rhizome readers and Claire,
Thanks very much for the feature on Beam Me Up, which I really enjoyed. I wanted to just note a few clarifications and point readers to some new content:
I think first I should say that I didn't curate/commission all of the content on the site, but am thrilled to have been one of the six invited guest curators to commission new art works and new essays by Reinhard Storz and the team at Xcult.org. You can see the full list of the other curators and their contributions here: http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=e&artid=14
I also think that Beam Me Up is not wholly uninterested in categorization, even while it is trying to break down some of the boundaries between disciplines by giving scientists and artists the same platform on which they can post their ideas. You can select from the icons on the right-hand side of the page to filter the contents categorically, which range from art to cultural science, natural science, field studies, essays, narration, poetry and movies. You can also participate in 'guest-curating' a selection from the commissioned works, and uploading that to the 'guided tours' section of the website, just email your ideas along!
Lastly, I wanted to point out that Dr. Jayanne English's full essay accompanying the animation is now online http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=e&artid=43 and that Jamie O'Shea's shrine to the Martian Phoenix Lander is icing over daily, and you don't want to miss the moment when telematic communication becomes impossible and the webcam stops transmitting! http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=e&artid=51
Thanks again,
Sarah
Thanks very much for the feature on Beam Me Up, which I really enjoyed. I wanted to just note a few clarifications and point readers to some new content:
I think first I should say that I didn't curate/commission all of the content on the site, but am thrilled to have been one of the six invited guest curators to commission new art works and new essays by Reinhard Storz and the team at Xcult.org. You can see the full list of the other curators and their contributions here: http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=e&artid=14
I also think that Beam Me Up is not wholly uninterested in categorization, even while it is trying to break down some of the boundaries between disciplines by giving scientists and artists the same platform on which they can post their ideas. You can select from the icons on the right-hand side of the page to filter the contents categorically, which range from art to cultural science, natural science, field studies, essays, narration, poetry and movies. You can also participate in 'guest-curating' a selection from the commissioned works, and uploading that to the 'guided tours' section of the website, just email your ideas along!
Lastly, I wanted to point out that Dr. Jayanne English's full essay accompanying the animation is now online http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=e&artid=43 and that Jamie O'Shea's shrine to the Martian Phoenix Lander is icing over daily, and you don't want to miss the moment when telematic communication becomes impossible and the webcam stops transmitting! http://www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php?lang=e&artid=51
Thanks again,
Sarah
letter to the Walker in support of Steve Dietz and Gallery 9
(please forward)
Dear all,
Please add your name to our open letter to Kathy Halbreich, Walker Art
Center director, in response to the dismissal of curator Steve Dietz
and the termination of programming in the new media initiatives
department.
http://www.mteww.com/walker_letter/index.shtml
On the site you can also download a plain version of the letter to
print on your own letterhead and post.
Thanks,
Sarah
*********
Sarah Cook, curator and co-editor
CRUMB: The Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss
www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/new-media-curating.html
Dear all,
Please add your name to our open letter to Kathy Halbreich, Walker Art
Center director, in response to the dismissal of curator Steve Dietz
and the termination of programming in the new media initiatives
department.
http://www.mteww.com/walker_letter/index.shtml
On the site you can also download a plain version of the letter to
print on your own letterhead and post.
Thanks,
Sarah
*********
Sarah Cook, curator and co-editor
CRUMB: The Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss
www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/new-media-curating.html
