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Background Noise. Perspective on Sound Art by Brandon LaBelle. 2006
Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, architecture, environments, and the specifics of location into the work of sound, with the aim of...
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Varieties of Audio Mimesis by Allen S. Weiss. 2008 (Errant Bodies Press)
Varieties of Audio Mimesis is many things: an investigation of the metaphoric relationships between music and landscape, a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia, and a theory of sound in the arts. The history of European musicology is perennially revised...
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Mechanical Sound. Technology, Culture, and Public. Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century by Karin Bijsterveld. 2008
Mechanical Sound. Technology, Culture, and Public. Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century by Karin Bijsterveld. 2008, Cambridge, Londres, The MIT Press, 2008 (isbn-10 : 0-262-02639-2). Since the last nineteenth century, the sounds of technology have...
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Immersive Works bei Granular Synthesis (dvdrom)
Immersive Works. Granular Synthesis. Kurt Hentschläger-Ulf Lanheinrich, ZKM-Hatje Cantz, 2004. Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich have been working together as Granular Synthesis since 1991. Focusing on the synaesthetic relationship of sound and image,...
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Merce Cunningham. A Lifetime of Dance by Charles Atlas (dvd)
One of the most prominent figures in contemporary arts, Merce Cunningham has performed and choreographed modern dance for over fifty years. Both daring and innovative, his explorations into the avant-garde have captivated audiences, fascinated critics...
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Fifty Forward "from Ocean to Ocean" de Merce Cunningham (book-cdrom)
Merce Cunningham, Fifty Forward "from Ocean to Ocean" de David Vaugham (book-cdrom), produced by Cunningham Dance Company, 2005. The book Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years, by David Vaugham, published by Aperture in 1997, conclued with the creation of a major...
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Biped/Pondway de Merce Cunningham (dvd)
Figure emblématique de la danse moderne et contemporaine. Merce Cunningham poursuit depuis 60 ans une oeuvre mondialement reconnue comme révolutionnaire. Avec sa compagnie fondée en 1953, il n'a cessé de travailler dans un souci d'avant-garde sur le mouvement...
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Destricted, Katapult Film Sales, Revolver Entertainment, 2006 (dvd)
Destricted, Katapult Film Sales, Revolver Entertainment, UK, 2006 (dvd), films de Larry Clark, Gaspar Noé, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matthew Barney, Richard Prince, Marco Brambilla et Marina Abramovic (interdit - de 18 ans) Destricted invited seven artists to...
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Sonic Fiction. Synaesthetic Video from Austria (dvd)
Sonic Fiction. Synaesthetic Video from Austria, Vienne, Index DVD Edition, DVD 014. A DVD release celebrating the extraordinary young video and electronic music scene in Austria. These are radical avant-garde works that emerge logically from modern electronic...
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Bill Viola. The Eye of the Heart by Mark Kidel (dvd)
Bill Viola. The Eye of the Heart by Mark Kidel, A Calliope Media production for BBC in association with Arte France, 2002. Bill Viola has been exploring video art since its beginnings in the 1970's, and is increalingly recognised as one of the most important...
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Vier Videokünstler: Barney, Hill, McCarthy, Neshat (2 dvds)
Vier Videokünstler: Barney, Hill, McCarthy, Neshat, Fünf Filme von Maria Tappeiner, Jörg und Ralf Raimo Jung, reinhard Wulf. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, AbsolutMedien Dokumente 933, 2 DVDs, 2007. - Matthew Barney hat sich seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre mit einer...
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14 Video Paintings (2005) by Brian Eno (dvd)
"I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. Video for me is a way of configuring light, just as painting is a way of configuring paint. What you see is simply light patterned in various ways. For an artist, video is the best light organ...
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77 Million Paintings (2007) by Brian Eno (dvd. Second revised version)
77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno, All Saints Records/Wordsalad, Opal Music, excerpt in North America Upala Music (BMI), 2007. 77 Million Paintings is the next evolutionary stage of Brian Eno's exploration into light as an artist's medium and the aesthetic...
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Mountain War Project de Jorge E. Lopez (2007)
Mountain War Project (Gebirgskriegsprojekt). Dream structure for video design with concrete and instrumental surround sound (Wachtraum für videogestaltung konkreten und instrumentalen Raumklang de Jorge E. Lopez (KlangForum, Wien) ZKM, edition ZKM-Wergo,...
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Surface Tension Supplement No. 1, edited by Ken Ehrlich & Brandon LaBelle
Surface Tension Supplement No. 1, Edited By Ken Ehrlich & Brandon Labelle, Los Angeles, Copenhague, Errant Bodies Press, 2006. Following the release Surface Tension: Problematics of Site in 2003, Errant Bodies Press inaugurates Surface Tension Supplements,...
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Génération Otaku de Hiroki Azuma
Hiroki Azuma, Génération Otaku. Les Enfants de la postmodernité, préface de Michel Maffesoli : « Un narcissisme tribal », Paris, Hachette Littératures, coll. Haute Tension, traduction du japonais par Corinne Quentin, 2008. Best-seller au Japon, cet essai...
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Digital Mosaics. The Aesthetic of Cyberspace by Steven Holtzman
Steven Holtzmann, Digital Mosaics. The Aesthetics of Cyberspace, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1997. As the Internet and digital media become increasingly familiar presences in our daily lives, our encounters with the digital world become more frequent...
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MediaArtHistories by Oliver Grau
Grau Oliver, MediaArtHistories, The Leonardo Book, Cambridge, Massachussetts, Londres, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, The MIT Press, 2007. Digital Art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream...
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Avant-Garde Performance. Live Events and Electronic Technologies
Avant-Garde Performance. Live Events And Electronic Performances by Günter Berghaus, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2005. How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it impact on the performing arts? How did the avant-garde challenge the...
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Roland Auzet : Percussion(s), 3 CDs, 1 DVD, livre bilingue
Roland Auzet : Percussion(s) Mode Record PO Box 1262 New York, NY 10009, USA Tschann Librairie 125 bd du Montparnasse 75006 Paris, France « Percussion(s) » is the first collection of Inactuelles : 3 Cds and a DVD of studio recordings by virtuoso French...
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Dominium Mundi. L'Empire du Management de Gérald Caillet, dvd
Dominium Mundi. L'Empire du management de Gérald Caillet, sur un texte de Pierre Legendre, DVD Ideale Audience Internationale/Arte France, 2007. Dominium Mundi. L'Empire du management est un essai documentaire sur la mondialisation, vue comme une tentative...
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Women Art & Technology by Judy Malloy
Women, Art & Technology, edited by Judy Malloy, foreword by Pat Bentson, A Leornardo Book, Cambridge, Massachussetts, Londres, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, The MIT Press, 2003. Although women have been at the forefront of art and technology...
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Digital Performance by Steve Dixon
Steve DIXON, Digital Performance. A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation , Cambridge, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, The MIT Press, 2007. link The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of...
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Retour à 1968-1
"Il est des moments, dans l'histoire des hommes, où la faculté critique de l'esprit, par un surcroît d'activité et de virulence, apparaît comme prédominante. Plus que cela encore, elle semble absorber ou résumer les autres facultés, devenir l'esprit même....
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Sphères III. Écumes de Peter Sloterdijk
Pour plus d'informations sur les réseaux atmosphériques (atmotopes), il faut lire le livre de Peter Sloterdijk, Sphères III-Écumes, Paris, Hachette Littératures, coll. Pluriel-Philosophie, 2006. Peter Sloterdijk est sans aucun l'un des plus importants...