Publishing http://www.v2.nl daily 1 2009-05-11T13:09:55Z The Sympathy of Things http://www.v2.nl/publishing/the-sympathy-of-things "The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design," the new publication by Lars Spuybroek is now available in V2_'s webshop.


"We have to find our way back to beauty," writes Lars Spuybroek in the introduction to The Sympathy of Things. In this book Spuybroek argues that we must "undo" the twentieth century – the age in which the sublime turned from an art category into a technical reality. This leads him to the aesthetical insights of the nineteenth-century English art critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for our time.

In The Sympathy of Things, the old romantic notion of sympathy, a core concept in Ruskin’s aesthetics, is re-evaluated as the driving force of the aesthetic experience. For Ruskin, beauty always comprises variation, imperfection and fragility, three concepts that wholly disappeared from our mindsets during the twentieth century.

Spuybroek addresses the five central dual themes of Ruskin in turn: the Gothic and work, ornament and matter, sympathy and abstraction, the picturesque and time, ecology and design. He wrests each of these themes from the Victorian era and compares them with the related ideas of later aestheticians and philosophers like William James and Bruno Latour.

Lars Spuybroek is Professor of Architectural Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He is the author of NOX: Machining Architecture (2004), The Architecture of Continuity (2008), Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation (2009) and Research & Design: Textile Tectonics (2011).

Watch the stream of the presentation by Lars Spuybroek on The Sympathy of Things at the Architectural Association, London. Date: 29.11.2011 http://www.aaschool.ac.uk 

 

"We are living through a change in paradigm, in the age of the flexible machine, where the concepts of matter, spirituality and design are under re-negotiation and we need such fearless thought to jolt complacency. If Spuybroek, like Ruskin, does not shake your design and aesthetic concepts, you haven’t understood him."

Charles Jencks on The Sympathy of Things

"The Sympathy of Things is a stirring call to action; an amazing reconstruction of the ideas of the Victorian sage
John Ruskin; and, above all, a visionary look at the inner life of things. Lars Spuybroek makes the case that aesthetics is first philosophy, and proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital age."

Steven Shaviro on The Sympathy of Things

 

The Sympathy of Things has been made possible with the aid of The Netherlands Architecture Fund. 

 

Contents

Preface

The Digital Nature of Gothic

     Ruskin: The Nature of Gothic

     Craft and Code

     I believe in Things

The Matter of Ornament

     Ruskin: The Wall Veil and Earth Veil

     An Abstract Materialism

     Tesselation Ornament and Ribbon Ornament

     Some Hints on Pattern-designing

Abstraction and Sympathy

     The Mosaic of Experience

     The Fabric of Sympathy

     Lipps’ Sympathy, Worringer’s Empathy

     The Veil is the Anti-Eidos

The Radical Picturesque

     Forms and Forces

     Ruskin: The Parasitical Sublime

     Sublime Things

     The Technological Wild

The Ecology of Design

     Ruskin: Beauty is the End

     A Veil of Strange Intermediate Being

 

]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen This information is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 2011 V2_publishing architecture book webshop book 2011-06-21T12:30:00Z Page The Politics of the Impure http://www.v2.nl/publishing/the-politics-of-the-impure The Politics of The Impure is an explicit attempt to create a new creation myth – one of a wilderness that is not pure but technological.

 

With: Arjun Appadurai, Tord Boontje, Wim Delvoye, Driessens & Verstappen, Gunnar Heinsohn, Lino Hellings, Knowbotic Research, Lynn Margulis, Arjen Mulder, Raj Patel, Casey Reas, Ken Rinaldo & Amy Youngs, Lars Spuybroek, Isabelle Stengers, Bruce Sterling, Alberto Toscano, Christian Unverzagt and Herwig Weiser.

Edited by Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder and Lars Spuybroek.

 

Modernist belief was informed by the vision of technology as a tool of reduction, purifying nature from a state of randomness into one of cleansed controllability and perfection. It was not just the art of modernism that was all about purity and the search for abstraction, the same logic and politics of purity were also at work in rationalized agriculture, refined food, urban planning, population control, and the experience of the Other, both as the goal and the legitimization of the means to reach that goal. With amazing, world changing consequences – but also with devastating effects for the environment, climate, cultural diversity, biopolitics, and city and country life.

This book investigates this urge for the pure, but also advocates a much deeper need for the impure, not to reinstate a new organicism or back-to-nature movement, but to trace progression to a point where all modernist values reverse, where technology becomes an agent for the impure and the imperfect. Technology, long an agent for homogeneity and purity, is now turning into one for heterogeneity and global contingency.

 

Download the Introduction The Politics of the Impure (PDF) 

 

]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen This information is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. V2_ Publishing activist aesthetics anthropologist architecture art author bioart biologist book continuity ecology electronic art food globalization gothic impure interdisciplinary international politics science webshop book 2010-01-15T12:45:00Z Page TransUrbanism http://www.v2.nl/publishing/transurbanism "TransUrbanism" is a collection of essays and interviews about urbanism in a time of global transformation of the city itself. Sold Out

Issued: 2002

ISBN: 90-5662-236-6

Dimensions: 23 x 16 cm

Pages: 240

Type: Paperback

Language: English

 

With: Arjun Appadurai, Knowbotic Research, Rem Koolhaas, Scott Lash, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Arjen Mulder, Edward Soja, Lars Spuybroek, Mark Wigley, Brett Steele, Roemer van Toorn.

Edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder.  


TransUrbanism is a collection of essays and interviews about urbanism in a time of transformation. Transurbanism is a theory of the transition of cities from the way they are now towards a design process in which the highly informed character of every built environment is used as a design resource by that environment itself. TransUrbanism proposes a design strategy that would allow cities to organize themselves as complex systems in which small local structures incorporate global flows.

The four urban functions of working, living, leisure and transport which Le Corbusier once so elegantly deployed in his model of the city can no longer be separated from each other either spatially or socially. Living and transport have become practically the same. Insofar as a house still has any function beyond providing a place to sleep, this derives from the theme-park character of the surrounding neighborhood. The city has ceased to be a clearly localizable spatial unit and has transformed into what might be termed an "urban field," a collection of activities instead of a material structure. Cities today are in a state of continuous decomposition, but are also continually reorganizing and rearranging themselves, expanding and shrinking.


Essays and Interviews

  • Arjen Mulder: TransUrbanism
  • Andreas Ruby: Transgressing Urbanism
  • Arjun Appadurai: The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination
  • Scott Lash: Informational Totemism
  • Lars Spuybroek: The Structure of Vagueness
  • Edward Soja: Restructuring the industrial Capitalist City
  • Mark Wigley: Resisting the City
  • Roemer van Toorn: Against the Hijacking of the Multitude
  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Alien Relationships with Public Space
  • Lars Spuybroek meets Rem Koolhaas: Africa Comes First
  • Knowbotic Research: Codes Bad Guys Space
  • Brett Steele: Transitory Image Spaces: Urbanism 2.0

 

This book is made possible by the Netherlands Architecture Fund (Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur), Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

 

]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen book 2009-03-16T14:50:00Z Page From Image to Interaction http://www.v2.nl/publishing/from-image-to-interaction In "From Image to Interaction," Arjen Mulder traces evolutionary lines in the fine art of the past five hundred years that have led directly to the interactive art of today.

 

 

In this book Arjen Mulder investigates the origins of modern art from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Kandinsky, Mondrian and Paul Klee, whom he regards not only as great artists but above all as great media theorists. In the process, he discovers how the models these illustrious predecessors built are still actively being used in the fields of contemporary art known as electronic art, video art, machine art, digital art, media art, and even “the art formerly known as media art.” Step by step, Mulder develops a surprising perspective on the genealogy of art from 1910 to 2010 and the role and value of visual culture and design in the present. He analyzes the feelings and experiences evoked by painting, photography, digital media and the interactive arts in a previously unseen manner. In compact, clear style, he works out a theory of art not as an expression of the worldview of its time but as a discoverer and researcher of it.

Arjen Mulder’s previous books include the acclaimed Understanding Media Theory: Language, Image, Sound, Behavior (2004), used at numerous colleges and universities, as well as essay collections in Dutch such as Het fotografisch genoegen ("Photographic Pleasure," 2000) and De vrouw voor wie Cesare Pavese zelfmoord pleegde ("The Woman Cesare Pavese Committed Suicide for," 2005), which critics have praised for its originality. He teaches media theory at the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (MaHKU) in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

 
Introduction From Image to Interaction (PDF) by Arjen Mulder.
 
 
]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen This information is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 2010 V2_ Publishing art history book media art webshop book 2010-12-13T15:10:00Z Page Van beeld naar interactie http://www.v2.nl/publishing/van-beeld-naar-interactie In "Van beeld naar interactie" volgt Arjen Mulder ontwikkelingslijnen uit de beeldende kunsten van de afgelopen vijfhonderd jaar die rechtstreeks naar de interactieve kunst van dit moment voeren.

 

Arjen Mulder onderzoekt de oorsprong van de moderne kunst vanaf Leonardo da Vinci en Michelangelo tot Kandinsky, Mondriaan en Paul Klee, die hij niet alleen beschouwt als grote kunstenaars maar meer nog als grote mediatheoretici. Al doende ontdekt hij hoe de modellen die deze illustere voorgangers ontwikkelden nog altijd actief worden gebruikt in de eigentijdse kunsten die bekend staan onder namen als elektronische kunst, videokunst, machinekunst, digitale kunst, mediakunst en zelfs 'the art formerly known as media art'. Stap voor stap ontwikkelt hij in het boek een verrassend perspectief, niet alleen op de genealogie van de kunsten tussen 1910 en 2010, maar ook op de rol en waarde van de beeldcultuur en van design in onze tijd. Op niet eerder vertoonde wijze analyseert Mulder de gevoelens en ervaringen die worden opgeroepen met behulp van schilderkunst, fotografie, digitale media en de interactieve kunsten. In een compacte en heldere stijl ontwikkelt Mulder een visie op kunst, niet als uiting van het wereldbeeld van haar tijd, maar als ontdekker en onderzoeker daarvan. 

Arjen Mulder publiceerde eerder de veelgeprezen en op vele HBO's en universiteiten gebruikte uitgave Over mediatheorie: taal beeld, geluid, gedrag (2004), naast essaybundels als Het fotografisch genoegen (2000) en De vrouw voor wie Cesare Pavese zelfmoord pleegde (2005), waarvan de originaliteit door de critici geroemd werd. Hij doceert mediatheorie aan de MaHKU te Utrecht.

 
Introductie From Image to Interaction (.pdf Engelse editie) by Arjen Mulder.
 
 
]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen This information is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 2010 V2_ Publishing art history book media art webshop book 2010-12-14T09:25:00Z Page Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 http://www.v2.nl/publishing/real-projects-for-real-people Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 is a reflection on the work of The Patching Zone.


Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 is a reflection on the work of The Patching Zone, a transdisciplinary media laboratory based in Rotterdam where students, young professionals and experts from different backgrounds build a shared practice. 

In Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 the authors take us on a rich journey of practice lead research and development that is grouped around four projects that were developed in The Patching Zone’s first two years (2008-2010). It highlights the theory and research approach that were applied; the outcomes are illustrated by the team members’ contributions through photo-essays, papers, design sketches and interviews with the stakeholders. Real Projects for Real People Volume 1 is especially relevant for researchers, scholars, makers and educators who are interested in a collaborative practice in the field of creative industry and technology. 

Foreword by Alex Adriaansens, director of V2_, Rotterdam, with  contributions by; Anne Nigten (NL), Kristina Andersen (DK/NL), Matthew Fuller (UK), Sam Nemeth (NL), Andreas.Muk.Haider (AT), Andreas Zingerle (AT),Christopher Baronavski (US), Corinna Pape (DE), Georgios Papadakis (GR), Javier Busturia(ES), Jelle Dekker (NL), Jingni Wang (CN), Mirella Misi (BR), Nancy Mauro-Flude (AU), Pinar Temiz (TR), Rene Wassenburg (NL), Ricardo Nascimento (BR), Sietse Dols (NL), Simon de Bakker (NL), Vivian Wenli Lin (TW/US). Graphic Design: Corien Bos and Madi Kolpa. Copy editing: Lyndsey Housden

About the editor:  Dr. Anne Nigten frequently publishes and lectures on transdisciplinary collaboration in the creative sector. The Patching Zone follows the outcomes of her PhD thesis ‘Processpatching, Defining new Methods in aRt&D’ (2006). Prior to her current position as director of The Patching Zone, she was the manager of the V2_Lab in Rotterdam. 

http://www.patchingzone.net 

]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen This information is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 2010 Rotterdam V2_ Publishing book collaborative interdisciplinary lab multi-media network public art webshop book 2010-10-15T15:25:00Z Page The Architecture of Continuity http://www.v2.nl/publishing/the-architecture-of-continuity Lars Spuybroek's first fully theoretical account of his innovative work.

 

"That buildings are made of elements doesn't mean that architecture should be based on elementarism; on the contrary, we should strive for an architecture of continuity that fuses tectonics with textile, abstraction with empathy, and matter with expressivity."

This is the crux of the argument Lars Spuybroek makes in this book, the first fully theoretical account of his innovative work. The state of contemporary architecture is the product of a 150-year battle between the Polytechnique and Beaux-Arts schools of design, which has forced us into a stalemate between the radically opposed positions of high-tech and sculpturism. Spuybroek aims to do no less than mend this rift through rethinking technology as an extension of our feeling senses, materiality as the realm of activity and agency, and structure as the result of genesis.

Building on Gottfried Semper's materialist theory of architecture, he takes us from a philosophy of technology to a surprisingly historical argumentation that constantly revives the words of John Ruskin, William Hogarth and Wilhelm Worringer. Alongside a number of essays, the book contains extensive conversations in which we witness him refining and sharpening his arguments ("We will see a merging of Art Nouveau and Bauhaus, where empathy has been liberated from manual labor and machines have been liberated from uniform repetition"). In a period of theoretical tranquility in architecture, this book takes a refreshing turn back to the basics, one in which tools, methodology and architectural aesthetics are recalibrated.

Lars Spuybroek is Professor and Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He is also the principal of NOX, an architecture and art studio in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His previous books are The Weight of the Image (NAi Publishers, 2000) and NOX: Machining Architecture (Thames & Hudson, 2004).

 

"This Spuybroek guy is the cat's pyjamas of parametric architecture. I read his Continuity book and it was like being hit over the head with a Gothic column."

Bruce Sterling



Contents

Foreword by Detlef Mertins

Introduction: Experience, Tectonics and Continuity

Motor Geometry

Substance and Accident

The Motorization of Reality

The Primacy of Experience

The Soft Machine of Vision

Africa Comes First

The Structure of Vagueness

Sensograms at Work

The Lives That Are Hidden

Machining Architecture

The Architecture of Continuity

Textile Tectonics

The Aesthetics of Variation

Steel and Freedom


Acknowledgments
References

The Architecture of Continuity is made possible by the Netherlands Architecture Fund (Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur). www.archfonds.nl and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfornds. www.prinsbernhardcultuurfornds.nl

 

 

]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen book webshop book 2009-03-12T15:35:00Z Page Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph http://www.v2.nl/publishing/dick-raaymakers-a-monograph Monograph on the pioneer of electronic music Dick Raaymakers.

 
With essays by Elmer Schönberger, Frans Evers, Kees Tazelaar, Michael van Hoogenhuyze and Paul Slangen

 
 

Dick Raaymakers: artist and pioneer

Dick Raaymakers (1930) is widely recognized as one of the founders of Dutch electronic music in the 1950s, and as a multimedia artist he was way ahead of his time. Dick Raaymakers' works and installations as well as his music and theater performances are so original that they are unique in the world. His influence on colleagues of his own generation but especially on younger generations of artists cannot be overestimated.

Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph is a 450 page, richly illustrated book offers insight into Raaymakers' work methods, thought processes and motivation and is a must-have reference work. This overview is complemented by a number of essays by experts from the world of music and theater, such as Elmer Schönberger, Frans Evers, Kees Tazelaar, Michael van Hoogenhuyze and Paul Slangen.

Together with V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Dick Raaymakers has been digging through his personal archive for two years in order to track down the first sketches, correspondence, final concepts and often intense collaborations and performances of all of his works. This does not only offer an insight into the work of Dick Raaymakers, but into a major part of Dutch post-war art as well.

Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph is a book that should be in the collection of every lover of electronic music, theater, art and performance.

 

"By thinking outside of musical frames Raaymakers has been able to unite music, theater and visual art like no one else."

Reinbert de Leeuw



Translations: Hepzibah Kousbroek, Laura Martz and Leo Reijnen.

The photograph on the cover is an image from the NPS documentary In Search of a Lost Application (2000) by Jacqueline Oskamp.

 

Dick Raaymakers: A monograph has been made possible with the aid of:

The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture;

The Mondriaan Foundation;

The Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten;

VSBfonds;

Société Gavigniès;

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds;

The City of Eindhoven;

Johan Wagenaar Foundation, The Hague;

Stroom, The Hague;

Royal Conservatoire The Hague;

 

]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen book music theatre sound art webshop book 2009-05-20T14:00:00Z Page Dick Raaijmakers Monografie, speciale editie http://www.v2.nl/publishing/dick-raaijmakers-monografie-speciale-editie Monografie over het werk van de pionier van de Nederlandse elektronische kunst.

 

With essays by Elmer Schönberger, Frans Evers, Kees Tazelaar, Michael van Hoogenhuyze and Paul Slangen.

 

Dick Raaijmakers: kunstenaar en pionier

In een beperkte oplage van 250 exemplaren brengt V2_Publishing ook een speciale editie van de monografie uit. Deze unieke uitgave is genummerd en voorzien van een speciaal voor de monografie geschoten portret door Vincent Mentzel, gesigneerd door Dick Raaijmakers. De speciale editie is uitsluitend te verkrijgen bij V2_ en via deze website en zal niet in de winkel verschijnen.

 

Dick Raaijmakers (1930) wordt alom erkend als één van de grondleggers van de Nederlandse elektronische muziek in de jaren vijftig en is als 'multimediakunstenaar' zijn tijd ver vooruit geweest. De werken en installaties, muziek en theater performances van Dick Raaijmakers zijn van een dusdanige originaliteit dat ze wereldwijd hun gelijke niet kennen. Zijn invloed op collega's uit zijn eigen generatie, maar vooral ook op jongere generaties kunstenaars is enorm te noemen.

In december 2007 verscheen een complete monografie over deze markante kunstenaar, die de breedte en diepte van zijn werk in beeld brengt. Dit boek geeft inzicht in de werkmethoden, denkwijze en motivatie van Raaijmakers en fungeert daarnaast als onmisbaar naslagwerk. Het overzicht wordt begeleid door een aantal essays van experts uit de muziek- en theaterwereld.  

Met V2_, Instituut  voor de instabiele media, heeft Dick Raaijmakers twee jaar lang zijn persoonlijke archieven doorgespit en ondersteboven gekeerd om van alle werken de eerste schetsen, de correspondentie, de uitgewerkte concepten en de vaak intense samenwerkingen en uitvoeringen in kaart te brengen. Hiermee wordt niet alleen het werk van Dick Raaijmakers inzichtelijk maar ook een belangrijk deel van de Nederlandse naoorlogse kunst.

De monografie van Dick Raaijmakers is een boek dat niet mag ontbreken in de collectie van iedere liefhebber van elektronische muziek, theater, kunst en performance.

 

"Door buiten de muzikale kaders te denken heeft Raaijmakers als geen ander muziek, theater en beeldende kunst weten te verenigen."  Reinbert de Leeuw


Dick Raaijmakers' monografie is mede mogelijk gemaakt door:

Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst;

Mondriaan Stichting;

Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten;

VSBfonds;

Société Gavigniès;

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds;

Gemeente Eindhoven;

Johan Wagenaar Stichting, Den Haag;

Stroom, Den Haag;

Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag.

]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen V2_ Publishing book composer music theatre sound art webshop book 2009-04-21T12:10:00Z Page Dick Raaijmakers monografie http://www.v2.nl/publishing/dick-raaijmakers-monografie Monografie over het werk van de pionier van de Nederlandse elektronische kunst.

 

With essays by Elmer Schönberger, Frans Evers, Kees Tazelaar, Michael van Hoogenhuyze and Paul Slangen.

 

Dick Raaijmakers: kunstenaar en pionier

Dick Raaijmakers (1930) wordt alom erkend als één van de grondleggers van de Nederlandse elektronische muziek in de jaren vijftig en is als 'multimediakunstenaar' zijn tijd ver vooruit geweest. De werken en installaties, muziek en theater performances van Dick Raaijmakers zijn van een dusdanige originaliteit dat ze wereldwijd hun gelijke niet kennen. Zijn invloed op collega's uit zijn eigen generatie, maar vooral ook op jongere generaties kunstenaars is enorm te noemen.

In december 2007 verscheen een complete monografie over deze markante kunstenaar, die de breedte en diepte van zijn werk in beeld brengt. Dit boek geeft inzicht in de werkmethoden, denkwijze en motivatie van Raaijmakers en fungeert daarnaast als onmisbaar naslagwerk. Het overzicht wordt begeleid door een aantal essays van experts uit de muziek- en theaterwereld als Elmer Schönberger, Frans Evers, Kees Tazelaar, Michael van Hoogenhuyze en Paul Slangen.  

Met V2_, Instituut  voor de instabiele media heeft Dick Raaijmakers twee jaar lang zijn persoonlijke archieven doorgespit en ondersteboven gekeerd om van alle werken de eerste schetsen, de correspondentie, de uitgewerkte concepten en de vaak intense samenwerkingen en uitvoeringen in kaart te brengen. Hiermee wordt niet alleen het werk van Dick Raaijmakers inzichtelijk maar ook een belangrijk deel van de Nederlandse naoorlogse kunst.

De monografie van Dick Raaijmakers is een boek dat niet mag ontbreken in de collectie van iedere liefhebber van elektronische muziek, theater, kunst en performance.

 

"Door buiten de muzikale kaders te denken heeft Raaijmakers als geen ander muziek, theater en beeldende kunst weten te verenigen."  Reinbert de Leeuw

 

Dick Raaijmakers' monografie is mede mogelijk gemaakt door:

Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst;

Mondriaan Stichting;

Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten;

VSBfonds;

Société Gavigniès;

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds;

Gemeente Eindhoven;

Johan Wagenaar Stichting, Den Haag;

Stroom, Den Haag;

Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag.

]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen V2_ Publishing book music theatre sound art webshop book 2009-04-29T14:10:00Z Page Interact or Die! http://www.v2.nl/publishing/interact-or-die "Interact or Die!" contains a series of interviews with leading biologists in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (“evo-devo”), with architects and art historians in the field of bioconstructivism.

 

With: Sean B. Carroll, Alberto Toscano, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Michael Hensel, Eva Jablonka, Noortje Marres, Brian Massumi, Detlef Mertins, Arjen Mulder, Lars Spuybroek, Gilbert Simondon.


Interaction is a defining characteristic of every living being. Bodies and objects build connections, form networks, and then, through interaction, achieve organization, structure, memory and heredity. The only selection criterion for interaction is whether it works, that is, whether it is operational. Interactivity is on the one hand a method of bringing something into being - a form, a structure, an organization, a body, an institute, a work of art - and on the other hand a way of dealing with it.

Interact or Die! takes an interdisciplinary approach to its theme. It contains a series of interviews with leading biologists in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (“evo-devo”) and with architects and art historians in the field of bioconstructivism. It also features a series of outstanding essays on interactive art, interactive politics and interactive philosophy.

Interact or Die! received the 2008 Media.Art.Research.Award from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.


“There is no information in the genes or in the environment unless it is interpreted by the organism.”


Essays and Interviews

  • Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder: Interact or Die!
  • Sean B. Carroll: The Genes and Switches for Animal Forms
  • Eva Jablonka: Information Is Everything That Can Be Interpreted
  • Arjen Mulder: The Excercise of Interactive Art
  • Brian Massumi: The Thinking-Feeling of What Happens
  • Jeanne van Heeswijk: Empathy as a Radical Act: An Argument for Re-Scripting the City
  • Detlef Mertins: Where Architecture Meets Biology
  • Lars Spuybroek: The Aesthetics of Variation
  • Michael Hensel: Absolute Convolut-o-rama
  • Noortje Marres: There Is Drama in Networks
  • Alberto Toscano: Technical Culture and the Limits of Interaction: A Note on Simondon
  • Gilbert Simondon: Technical Individualization

 

Artist Projects

 

 

]]> No publisher admin DEAF07 book webshop book 2009-03-11T15:15:00Z Page aRt&D http://www.v2.nl/publishing/art-d "aRt&D: Research and Development in Art" provides a unique insight in the art practice where artists write about their personal experiences, and also develops a theoretical framework for their projects.

 

With: Andrew Benjamin, Josephine Bosma, Andy Cameron, Timothy Druckrey, Rudolf Frieling, Mark B. Hansen.

Edited by Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder and Anne Nigten.


aRt&D: Research and Development in Art lays open a new investigative field of art that emerged in the last few decades as a result of media and technology influences. aRt&D introduces the diversity of this new art domain to a broader audience. It is the first book that is entirely dedicated to artistic research and development.

In the past decades a new international trend has emerged within the arts, usually referred to as "electronic," "digital," or "interactive" art. In the 1980s, artists mainly worked with radio and video, where in the last fifteen years digital media and network technologies have emerged as their instruments of choice. This new art domain is characterized by collaboration between artists, designers, engineers and scientists, who join forces in researching and experimenting with new opportunities for using technology for artistic ends.

aRt&D: Research and Development in Art not only provides a unique insight in the art practice through essays in which artists write about their personal experiences, it also develops a theoretical framework for these projects. The book contains contributions by the award-winning performance group Blast Theory, media artist Thecla Schiphorst, art critics Josephine Bosma and Rudolf Frieling, media theorist Andy Cameron, curators Mark Hansen and Inke Arns, philosopher Andrew Benjamin, and many others. Timothy Druckrey, expert in this field, evaluates the importance of artistic research and development so far. aRt&D positions itself as a pioneering work: it is the first book ever published that focuses in depth on interdisciplinary research and development from an artistic perspective.

 

Essays

  • Introduction
  • Andrew Benjamin: Plurality of Actions: Notes on an Ontology of Technique
  • Josephine Bosma: Net Art: Building Something out of Nothing
  • Andy Cameron: Dinner with Myron or: Rereading Artificial Reality 2: Reflections on Interface and Art
  • Timothy Druckrey: (Ad)Venture Aesthetics?
  • Rudolf Frieling: Database and Context: Artistic Strategies within a Dynamic Field of Action
  • Mark B.N. Hansen: Embodyment: The Machinic and the Human
  • Anne Nigten: Blurred Disciplines, Expressive Software

 

Artist Projects

  • Archined, Stealth and V2_Lab
  • Ars Electronica Futurelab and Brucknerhaus
  • Blast Theory
  • Sara Diamond
  • Sher Doruff
  • Edwin van der Heide and Lars Spuybroek
  • Margarete Jahrmann and Max Moswitzer
  • Knowbotic Research
  • David Link
  • Esther Polak
  • David Rockeby
  • Q.S. Serafijn and Lars Spuybroek
  • Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignoneau
  • Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák and Márton Fernezelyi
  • Time's Up
  • whisper
]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen aRt&D book webshop book 2009-03-21T15:45:00Z Page Book for the Electronic Arts http://www.v2.nl/publishing/book-for-the-electronic-arts "Book for the Electronic Arts" describes 25 years of developing electronic art, necessitating a continuous reevaluation of the classic concepts of art.

 

Interviews with: Dick Raaijmakers, Stelarc, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Peter Weibel, Roy Ascott, Adilkno, Erik Hobijn, Felix Hess, Lars Spuybroek, Kodwo Eshun, Geert Lovink, Seiji Shimoda. 


In the past 25 years the electronic arts have left their pioneering days behind and grown into a fully fledged and richly varied form of art. Electronic art concerns both an artistic approach to technological devices and a technological approach to artistic concepts. Electronic art necessitates a reevaluation of the classic concept of art, and this is exactly what is done in the five essays included here. These essays were written with a lay audience in mind and describe the cultural, scientific, art historic, military-political and socioeconomic backgrounds with which electronic art is in dialogue.

The electronic arts as described here include spectacular devices such as Dutch artist Erik Hobijn's "suicide machine" and the "third arm" of Australian body artist Stelarc, and sophisticated interactive installations like those of Germany's Ulrike Gabriel and Japan's Seiko Mikami. They also include complex Internet projects by the Austrian/German Knowbotic Research (IO_dencies) and the English art inspiration Roy Ascott and the motion architecture of Rotterdam's Lars Spuybroek/NOX. These and other artists are given a voice in the Book for the Electronic Arts. Also included are interviews with pioneers and theorists of electronic art like Dick Raaijmakers, Peter Weibel, Steina and Woody Vasulka and Kodwo Eshun.

The Book for the Electronic Arts is lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs and other documents from the archives of V2_Organisation in Rotterdam, where over the past twenty years, virtually everything that was of interest in electronic art or was later proven to be has been presented.

 

"Electronic art necessitates a reevaluation of the classic concept of art, and this is exactly what is done in the five essays included here". UNESCO.org

 

Essays

  • Non-Producing Machines
  • Unstable Media
  • Imageless Art
  • Counterintuitive Interfaces
  • Incommunicative Networks


Interviews

  • Dick Raaijmakers
  • Stelarc
  • Steina and Woody Vasulka
  • Peter Weibel
  • V2_Organisation
  • Roy Ascott
  • Adilkno
  • Erik Hobijn
  • Felix Hess
  • Lars Spuybroek
  • Kodwo Eshun
  • Geert Lovink
  • Seiji Shimoda
]]> No publisher Joris van Ballegooijen V2_ Publishing book webshop book 2009-03-12T10:00:00Z Page Over mediatheorie http://www.v2.nl/publishing/over-mediatheorie Arjen Mulder maakt de mediatheorie inzichtelijk door alle belangrijke begrippen van de mediatheorie te bespreken op grond van concrete voorbeelden en ervaringen.

 

In Over mediatehorie wordt beschreven hoe onze communicatiemiddelen bepalen wat en wie we zijn, hoe we ons gedragen, waarover we wel en niet nadenken, hoe we onze gevoelens ontplooien of laten inperken, en wie we wel of juist niet kunnen bereiken. 

De mediatheorie biedt een verklaring voor praktisch alles wat er in onze wereld door mensen wordt gedacht, gedaan en ervaren. Dit explosieve gedachtegoed is in de afgelopen vijftig jaar ontwikkeld door allerlei auteurs van over de hele wereld, maar een synthese van hun ideeën bestond tot nu toe niet.

Over mediatheorie biedt zo'n synthese. Arjen Mulder vat het werk van eerdere auteurs samen, maar maakt de mediatheorie inzichtelijk door alle belangrijke begrippen, benaderingen en aandachtspunten van de mediatheorie te bespreken op grond van concrete voorbeelden en ervaringen. Dat houdt het boek toegankelijk - ook als het over complexe onderwerpen gaat als de geschiedenis van het taalgebruik, de werkwijze van de kunst of de onbewuste manier waarop we ons laten beïnvloeden door de media van de informatiemaatschappij.

Soms hilarisch, vaak fascinerend en altijd hoogst informatief, is Over mediatheorie een boek dat niet alleen bedoeld is voor studenten en kunstenaars, maar voor een ieder die belangstelling heeft voor onze tijd.

Arjen Mulder doceert mediatheorie op onder meer de Film en Televisieacademie in Breda en het HISK te Antwerpen.

 

Inhoud

Vooraf
Mediatheorie, de nieuwe wetenschap

Algemene mediatheorie: 

- Inleiding 

- Communicaties 

- Hermediatie 

Historische Mediatheorie:

- Inleiding 

- Gesproken taal 

- Geschreven taal

- Gedrukte taal 

- Getypte taal 

Praktische mediatheorie:

- Inleiding 

- Situaties en 'de media' 

- Analoge lichamen, digitaal bewustzijn 

- Het virtuele object van interactieve kunst  

- Van media- naar softwaretheorie 

Noten

Literatuur 

]]> No publisher Sofia Bustorff book webshop book 2009-03-24T15:05:00Z Page Feelings Are Always Local http://www.v2.nl/publishing/feelings-are-always-local "Feelings Are Always Local" analyzes the ways in which networks organize, expand and rearrange themselves from the inside out.

 

 

With: Arjun Appadurai, Mike Davis, Alexander Galloway/Eugene Thacker, Tijs Goldsmith, Christopher Kelty, Arjen Mulder, Karim Nader, Loretta Napoleoni.

Interactive art is organized as an open system: it is able to exchange matter, energy, and information with its environment while maintaining its coherence. Interactive art is art in a state of rest that must be disturbed: it is a system that has to become network before it becomes art at all. In order to come to grips with the phenomenon of interactive art, one must first understand the relationship between systems and networks.

“To find form or to see form arise, seek the systems in the network.”

Feelings Are Always Local analyzes the ways in which networks organize, expand, come together, and rearrange themselves from the inside out. With the help of specific examples, the authors investigate how we live in networks, how possibilities are created within them, opportunities seized, escape routes chosen – and how things sometimes go utterly wrong. The first question is scientific in nature: How do networks function? The second is political: How are networks made manageable at the concrete, everyday level?

Feelings are Always Local was published on the occasion of DEAF04, the 2004 Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, which focused on interactivity as an open system and interactivity in open systems. The book looks at projects with a social and political slant as well as those with a technological or biological character. It includes a series of essays, interviews and projects by international theorists and artists.


"This valuable work explores highly consequential themes that ensnare all of us."
 Dayna Crozier (Res Magazine)

 

Essays and Interviews

  • Arjen Mulder/Joke Brouwer: Introduction - Feelings Are Always Local
  • Arjun Appadurai: Minorities and the Production of Daily Peace
  • Mike Davis: Planet of Slums
  • Alexander Galloway/Eugene Thacker: In Defiance of Existence: Notes on Networks, Control and Life Forms
  • Tijs Goldschmidt: Every Species Is The Embodiment of Experience with the World
  • Christopher Kelty: Opening the Brown Box: Networks, Science and Infrastructure
  • Arjen Mulder: Body and Soul: Ludwig von Bertalanffy's Biological Worldview
  • Karim Nader: Memories are Constructive in Nature
  • Loretta Napoleoni: The New Economy of Terror

 

Artist Projects

 

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