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Leonardo Digital Book and Journal Reviews Archive
December 2005
111
works from the collection of Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz
by Miroslaw Borusiewicz, Editor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
21st-century Voice. Contemporary and Traditional Extra-Normal
Voice
by Michael Edward Edgerton
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Acnalbasac
Noom
by Slaphappy
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
by Amartya Sen
and
Frida Kahlo:
Exhibition at the Tate Modern, London June
9 — October 9 2005.
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma
Art
Marketing 101: A Handbook for the Fine Artist
by Constance Smith
Reviewed by George Shortess
Brides
of Frankenstein
by Marcia Tanner, Curator
Reviewed by Sonya Rapoport~
The
Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivism
by Bernhard Poerksen
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma
I,
Claudia
by Claudia Quintet
and
Semi-Formal
by Claudia Quintet
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
A
Culture of Light : Cinema and Technology in 1920's Germany
by Frances Guerin
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Il
Disegno Obliquo: Una Storia dell’antiprospettiva
by Massimo Scolari
Reviewed by Ian Verstegen
Fantastic
Reality, Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art
by Mignon Nixon
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Impossible
Nature: The Art of Jon McCormack
by Jon McCormack, Jon Bird, Alan Dorin,
& Anne Marie Jonson
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Jean
Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
by Max Cacopardo, Director
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Leitura
de nós: ciberespaço e literatura
by Alckmar Luiz dos Santos
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Ilaiyaraaja’s
Music Journey
by Ilaiyaraaja
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Made
in Brasil: Três Décadas do Vídeo Brasileiro
by Arlindo Machado, Editor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
by Clément Chéroux, Andreas
Fischer, Pierre Apraxine, Denis Canguilhem and Sophie Schmit
Reviewed by Anthony Enns
Pond
by Tod Dockstader and David Lee Myers
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Psi
Wars — Getting to Grips with the Paranormal
by James Alcock,
Jean Burns and Anthony Freeman, Editors
Reviewed by René Stettler
Read_me:
Software Art & Cultures
by Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin (eds.)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Science
in Context: Writing Modern Art and Science
by Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Guest Editor
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Shooting
from the Hip. Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America
by Patricia Vettel-Becker
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Talking
Drum
by Chris Brown
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
TCP/IP
Essentials: A Lab-Based Approach
by Shivendra S. Panwar, Shiwen Mao, Jeong-dong
Ryoo, Yihan Li
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
November 2005
9th
RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film
Reviewed by: Aparna Sharma
Radio
Banana
by Aki Peltonen
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Computers
and Art
by Stuart Mealing, Ed.
Reviewed by John Knight
Don’t
Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug
Reviewed by Kasey Rios Asberry
Eating
Architecture
by Jamie Horwitz and Paulette Singley, Eds
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Histories
of the Future
Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding, Eds.
Reviewed by Kathleen Quillian
Image
Retrieval: Theory and Research
by Corinne Jörgensen
Reviewed by Pia Tikka
Lara
Croft: Cyber Heroine
by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky. Trans. by Dominic
J. Bonfiglio
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
The
Test Drive
by Avital Ronell
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
October 2005
Art
Since 1900: Modernism, AntiModernism, Postmodernism
by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain
Blois and Benjamin HD Bloch
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
The
Art of Setting Stones & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden
by Marc Peter Keane
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
At
a Distance—Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet
by Annmarie Chandler & Norie Neumark
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
Charming
Hostess
by Punch
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Reconstructing
Consciousness, Mind and Being
The Ninth Annual Conference of the Consciousness
and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
I
wish you peace
by Paul Dunmall Moksha Big Band
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
New
Philosophy for New Media
by Mark Hansen
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Acousmatics
and Interactive Music Festival
Pro Arte Institute, with support of the
Ford Foundation
Reviewed by Mikhail S. Zalivadny
September 2005
Aby
Warburg and the Image in Motion
by Phillippe-Alain Michaud; trans., Sophie
Hawkes
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Appropriating
Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power
by Ron Eglash, Jennifer L. Croissant, Giovanna
Di Chiro and Rayvon Fouché, Eds.
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Cinema, or the Imaginary Man
by Edgar Morin; trans. by Lorraine Mortimer
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
Cognitive
Science, Literature and the Arts
by Patrick Colm Hogan
Reviewed by Amy Ione
The
Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
by Georges Bataille; trans. by Michelle
Kendall and Stuart Kendall
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
Eyes,
Lies and Illusions. The Art of Deception
by Laurent Mannoni, Werner Nekes, Marina
Warner
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
The
Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution
by Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko
Reviewed by Craig Hilton
Gehry
Draws
by Mark Rappolt and Robert Violette, Eds.
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Human
Factors Methods for Design: Making Systems Human-Centred
by Christopher P Nemeth
Reviewed by John Knight
Kurt
Schwitters
Discovery of Art Series
Reviewed by Artur Goczewski
The
Network Society (Key Concepts)
by Darin Barney
Reviewed by John Knight
The
Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation
by Alan Paskow
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Ramshackle
Pier
by Andy Bole
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Read_Me:
Software Art and Culture
by Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, Eds.
Reviewed by John Knight
Red
Persimmons
by Shinsuke Ogawa and Peng Xiaolian
Reviewed by Soo C. Hostetler
Santiago
Calatrava’s Travels
by Christoph Schwab
Reviewed by Artur Goczewski
The
Shunned Country
by Bob Drake
and
Venus
Handcuffs
by Bob Drake
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Situationist International: A User’s Guide
by Simon Ford
Reviewed by Claudia Westermann
The
2005 Venice Biennale: William Kentridge and the Limbo of Contemporary
Art
Reviewed by Simone Osthoff
A
Visit to Ogawa Productions
by Yasui Yoshio, Producer; Oshige Jun’
ichiro, Director
Reviewed by Soo C. Hostetler
August 2005
Appropriating
Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power
by Ron Eglash, Jennifer Croissant, Giovanna
Di Chiro, and Rayvon Fouché, Eds.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Artificial
Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation
and Synthesis of Living Systems
by Jordan Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands,
Takashi Ikegami and Richard A. Watson, Eds.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
La
Biennale di Venezia
51st International Art Exhibition
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
Carnal
Art: Orlan’s Refacing
by C. Jill O’Bryan
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
The
Curvature of Spacetime: Newton, Einstein, and Gravitation
by Harald Fritzsch; translated by Karin
Heusch
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Disruptive
Pattern Material: An Encyclopedia of Camouflage
by Hardy Blechman
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Encounter:
Merce
Event website: http://encountermerce.stanford.edu.
Reviewed by Richard Kade
Hans
Haacke
by Walter Grasskamp
Reviewed by Artur Golczewski
Infinite
Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati
by Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando
Yaccarino
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Leonora
Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
by Susan L. Aberth
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Proteus:
A Nineteenth Century Vision
by David Lebrun
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Qatar
Foundation
Innovations in Education: the Art and Science
Partnership
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Shades
of Black: Assembling Black Art in 1980s Britain
by David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom & Sonia
Boyce, Eds.
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Symmetry
2000: Part 1 and Part 2
I. Hargittai &
T.C. Laurent, Eds.
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Talking
Drum
by Chris Brown
and
Rogue Wave
by Chris Brown
Reviewed by René van Peer
Technology
as Experience
by John McCarthy and Peter Wright
Reviewed by John Knight
Them:
A Memoir of Parents
by Francine du Plessix Gray
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Visionary
Anatomies
by Harvey Fineberg, J.D.Talesk, and Michael
Sappol
Reviewed by Amy Ione
July 2005
Le
arti e la psicologia
by Lucia Pizzo Russo
Reviewed by Ian Verstegen
Baikal
Ice
by Peter Cusack
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Empathic
Vision: Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art
by Jill Bennett
Reviewed by Alex Rotas
For
Ever Godard
by Michael Temple, James S. Williams and Michael Witt, Eds.
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Innovation
and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation
and Progress, and What to Do About It
by Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner
Reviewed by Zainub Verjee
Leap
Second Neutral
by
Machine and the Synergetic Nuts
and
Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind
by Fast n' Bulbous
and
Emissaries
by Radio Massacre International
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Light/Image/Illusion——The
Aegina Academy
A Forum for Art and Science
By Gustav Deutsch and Hanna Schimek
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
Masterworks
of Technology: The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Design
by E.E. Lewis
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
The
Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
by Elizabeth Grosz
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
The
Other Side of Nowhere. Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue
by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble, Eds. ,with
introduction by Ingrid Monson
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
In
Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995
by Elizabeth Harney
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Text
and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity
by Maeda Ai
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Unsorted:
An A to Z for SonicActsX
by Arie Altena et al, with an introduction
by Taco Stolk
Reviewed by René Beekman
VAS:
An Opera in Flatland
by Steve Tomasula; art and design by Stephen
Farrell
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
A
Visit to Ogawa Productions
by Oshige Jun' Ichiro, Director; produced
by Yasui Yoshio
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Vocals
by Ian Breakwell
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
Walter
Benjamin and Art
by Andrew Benjamin, Ed.
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
June 2005
Art
Inquiry: Recherches Sur Les Arts, Volume V (XIV)
Cyberarts, Cybercultures, Cybersocieties
Published by The Scientific Society
in Lodz
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Arte Telemática. Dos intercâmbios pontuais aos ambientes
virtuais multiusuário
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Barricade
3
by ZNR
Reviewed by René van Peer
Bauhaus:
Less Is More
by
Eliseo Alvarez
and
Dessau’s Bauhaus
by Frederic Compain
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Caging
the Beast: A Theory of Sensory Consciousness _
Advances in Consciousness Research
by Paula Droege.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Charlotte:
Life or Theater?
by Richard Dindo
Reviewed by Artur Golczewski
Conversation
Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art
by Grant Kester
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Dream
Bridges—Traumbrücken
by Wolfdietrich Ziesel
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
D-B
. A: Digital-Botanic Architecture
by Dennis
Dollens
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Film
and Cinema Spectatorship: Melodrama and Mimesis
by Jan Campbell
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
The
Future Is Not What It Used To Be
by Mika Taanila
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Hokusai
by Gian Carlo Calza, with additional
essays by others
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Keeping
It Real
by Sunny Bergman
Reviewed
by Artur Golczewski
Music
Query: Methods, Models, and User Studies
by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field,
Eds.
Reviewed
by Joao Pedro Martins, Marcelo Gimenes and Qijun Zhang
Pop
Trickster Fool: Warhol Performs Naiveté
by Kelly M. Cresap
Reviewed
by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Pork
Chop Blue Around The Rind
by Fast 'n' Bulbous
Reviewed
by René van Peer
Psychosomatic:
Feminism and the Neurological Body
by Elizabeth A. Wilson
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
The
Subject of Documentary
by Michael Renov
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Television
After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition
Lynn Spigel, Ed.
Reviewed by Kathleen Quillian
What
the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance
by Jane Blocker
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
William
Roberts: An English Cubist
by Andrew Gibbon Williams
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
May 2005
After
Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology
by Tia DeNora
Reviewed by David Beer
Charlotte:
Life or Theatre
by Richard Dindo
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Collapse:
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Reviewed by George Gessert
2nd
Filmmuseum Biennale
Digital Technologies Meet Early Cinema
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
Hoover:
The Fishing President
by Hal Elliott Wert
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Keeping
It Real
by Sunny Bergman
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Liminal
Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Bioscience
by Susan Merrill Squier
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Looking
Into Pictures: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Pictorial Space
by Heiko Hecht, Robert Schwartz, and Margaret Atherton (Eds.)
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
La
planète hyper. De la pensée linéaire à la
pensée en arabesque
by Hervé Fischer
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Rise of Fashion: A Reader
by Daniel Leonhard Purdy (Ed.)
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Robert
Smithson
by Eugenie Tsai (Ed.)
and
Robert
Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere
by Ann Reynolds
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Stuff
It: The Video Essay in the Digital Age
by Ursula Biemann (Ed.)
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Technoetic
Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research; V.
1, N. 1, 2, & 3
by Roy Ascott (Ed.)
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Three
Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Wells, Renoir
by Irving Singer
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
The
Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging
by Jose Van Dijck
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
April
2005
The
Aesthetics of Ruins
by Robert Ginsberg.
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
A
Blinding Flash of Light: Photography Between Disciplines and Media
by David Tomas
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Building
Stata: The Design and Construction of Frank O. Gehry’s Stata Center
at MIT
by Nancy E. Joyce
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Creative
Evolutionary Systems
Edited by Peter Bentley and David Corne
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Fractal
Speech Processing
by Marwan Al-Akaidi
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Frith
in Retroperspective
and
Allies
by Fred Frith
Reviewed by René van Peer
Hopes
& Fears
by Art Bears
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Machine
Consciousness
by Owen Holland, ed.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Matchibako:
Japanese Matchbook Art of the 20s and 30s
by Maggie Kinser Hohle
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Playing
for Time
and
Mosquito/See Through
by The Necks
Reviewed by René van Peer
Proteus:
A Nineteenth Century Vision
by David Lebrun
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Edward
Said: The Last Interview
by Mike Dibb
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Sky
Garden
by Yo Miles! (Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo
Smith)
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Unforgiven
by Edward Buscombe
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
March 2005
College
Art Association Annual Meeting 2005
Atlanta, GA, February 16-19, 2005
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Cloud
Atlas
by David Mitchell
Reviewed by George Gessert
Documentary
Film at the Junction between Art, Politics and New Technologies
IDFA, November 2004
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
Electrotherapy
by Scott Smallwood
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
M.C.
Escher: Visions of Symmetry
by Doris Schattschneider
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Frequency,
Amplitude and Time
by Aaron Acosta
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
How
to Draw a Bunny
by John Walter and Andrew Moore
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Interactive
Futures
In conjunction with the 11th
Annual Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Invisible
Cities, A Metaphorical Complex Adaptive System
by Chloé E. Atreya
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Lumia
Music In St.Petersburg: Life Is Going On
St. Petersburg Scientific Centre of
the Russian Academy of Sciences
Reviewed by Mikhail S. Zalivadny
Marguerite
Wildenhain: A Diary to Franz
by Dean L. Schwarz, Editor
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Middle
of the Moment
by Fred Frith
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Music
from the Ocean
by Bob L. Sturm
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Past is Not Dead: Facts, Fictions, and Enduring Racial Stereotypes
by Allan Pred
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain
by Robert L. Solso
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Santiago
Calatrava’s Travels
by Christoph Schaub
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Spirit
into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske
by Julian Cox
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Style
in the Technical and Tectonic Arts; or, Practical Aesthetics
by Gottfried Semper; introduction by
Harry Francis Mallgrave
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Tara's
Room: Two Meditations on Transition and Change
by Pauline Oliveiros
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
February 2005
Architecture’s
New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design
by Yehuda E. Kalay
Reviewed by Peter Anders
The
China Study
by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M.
Campbell
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Computational
Discrete Mathematics: Combinatorics and Graph Theory with Mathematica
by Sriram Pemmaraju, Steven Skiena
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Cook
Book: Gertrude Stein, William Cook, and Le Corbusier
by Roy R. Behrens
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Data
Made Flesh: Embodying Information
by Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle,
Editors
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Digital
Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society
by Anthony G. Wilhelm
Reviewed by John F. Barber
First
Person: New Media as Story, Performance and Game
by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan,
Editors
Reviewed by Maia Engeli
Global
IT Outsourcing, Software Development Across Borders
by Sundeep Sahay, Brian Nicholson and
S. Krishna
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Junction
by Ilan Ziv, Director
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Lucien
Hervé: Building Images
by Olivier Beer
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Lumière
and Company
by Sarah Moon, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Models:
The Third Dimension of Science
by Soraya De Chadarevian and Nick Hopwood,
Editors
Reviewed by Craig Hilton
Operating
Theatres
and
Inhale/Exhale
by Lia Lapithi
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Picturing
Machines: 1400-1700
by Wolfgang Lefèvre, Editor
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Robert
Smithson and the American Landscape
by Ron Graziani
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Self-Publishing
Textbooks and Instructional Materials
by Franklin H. Silverman
Nisar Keshvani
THE
6TH SWISS BIENNIAL ON SCIENCE, TECHNICS + AESTHETICS
6. SCHWEIZER BIENNALE ZU WISSENSCHAFT, TECHNIK + ÄSTHETIK
Consciousness and Teleportation
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Reviews
of Takahiko iimura——Film, Video, Multimedia (1978-2001)
by Kazuyo Yasuda, Editor
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Under
the Spell of Dziga Vertov’s Kino-Eye and Kino-Ear: Le Giornate del
Cinema Muto, 23rd edition
Reviewed by Martha
Blassnigg
The
Way Things Go
by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Directors
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The
World Stopped Watching
by Peter Raymont, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
January 2005
A
New Definition of Art
by Lawrence Casler
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Better
Things: An Annotated Visual Essay of Photographs Interpreting the Collection
of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
by Douglas Holleley
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Carnival
of Perception: Selected Writings on Art by Guy Brett
by Guy Brett
Reviewed by Katia Maciel
The
Cubist Painters
by Guillaume Apollinaire; translated
with commentary by Peter Read
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
David
Ehrlich: Citizen of the World
by Oliver Cotte; translated by Sarah Mallinson
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Dutch
Electronic Arts Festival '04 (DEAF '04): Affective Turbulence: The Art
of Open Systems
Presented by V2_, Institute for the
Unstable Media
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Digital
Video Technology——Space and Time in the Exhibition Environment
Time Zones
Tate Modern, London, UK
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
DPM:
Disruptive Pattern Material: An Encyclopedia of Camouflage: Nature, Military,
Culture
by Hardy Blechman and Alex Newman, Editors
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Drug
Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics
by Curtis Marez
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Erkki
Kurenniemi: The Dawn of DIMI
by Mike Taanila, Editor
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Fecal
Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology
by Jeff Persels and Russell Ganim,
Editors
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The
Fourth Annual National Conference of the American Synesthesia Association,
Inc.
The University of California, Berkeley
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Gyromancy
by
The Mnemonist Orchestra
and
CMCD: Six Classic Concrete, Electroacoustic and Electronic
Works, 1970-1990
by Various Artists
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Human
by Argon-Evolution
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Designing
with Kanji: Japanese Character Motifs for Surface, Skin and Spirit
by Shogo Oketani and Leza Lowitz
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Maze Game
by Diana Slattery
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
The
Object Primer: Agile Model-Driven Development with UML 2.0
by Scott W. Ambler
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Problem
Solved: A Primer in Design and Communication
by Michael Johnson
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The
6th International Research Conference: Consciousness Reframed:
Qi and Complexity
Sponsored by Planetary Collegium; School
of Software, Peking University; Central Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Seurat
and the Making of La Grande Jatte
by Robert L. Herbert, with an essay by Neil
Harris and contributions by Douglas W. Druick Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Subtitles.
On the Foreignness of Film
by Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Talking
With Computers: Explorations in the Science and Technology of Computing
by Thomas Dean
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Three
Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
by J. Samuel Walker
Reviewed by John F. Barber
A
Time and a Place
by Rachel Davies
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma
Where
His Hands Decay, Mine Begin
by Rabab Ghazoul
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma
Wild
Reckoning: An Anthology Provoked by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
John Burnside and Maurice Riordan,
Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
The
World Stopped Watching
by Peter Raymont, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
December 2004
From
Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software
Industry
by Martin Campbell-Kelly
Reviewed by John Knight
Avatar
Bodies: A Tantra for Posthumanism
by Ann Weinstone
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Beyond
the Limits of Thought
by Graham Priest
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Con
Brio: Karl Ulbrich Schnabel, Master Teacher of Piano
by Mary Lou Chayes and Beverly Jones
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Earth
and Women
by Lyndol Michael, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era (Post-Contemporary
Interventions)
by George Yúdice
Reviewed by John Knight
Film
Art Phenomena
by Nicky Hamlyn
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
Funology:
From Usability to Enjoyment
by Mark A. Blythe, Kees Overbeeke, Andrew
F. Monk, and Peter C. Wright, Editors
Reviewed by John Knight
The
Holocaust Experience
by Oeke Hoogendijk
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
The
Interventionists: User's Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday
Life
by Nato Thompson and Gregory Sholette,
Editors
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Intima,
89/96-03/04, radical emotions
Intima | virtual base, Ljubljana, 2004
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Irrational
Modernism–A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada
by Amelia Jones
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Kiasma
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike)
Mosher
New
Philosophy For New Media
by Mark B.N. Hansen
Reviewed by René Beekman
Panopticon
by Relja Penezic, Director
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
Room
Pieces
by Michael J. Schumacher
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Sandcastles:
Buddhism & Global Finance
by Alexander Oey
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Satisficing
Games and Decision Making: With Applications to Engineering and Computer
Science
by Wynn C. Stirling
Reviewed by John Knight
Symmetry
Comes of Age: The Role of Pattern in Culture
by Dorothy K. Washburn and Donald W.
Crowe, Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Twilight
Clones
by Robert Ziino
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Variety
Orchestra
by Brian Woodbury
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Wayward
Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern
Thought
by Alys Eve Weinbaum
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
November 2004
32
Beijing/New York (Issues 1-3)
by Steven Holl and Li Hu, Eds.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Anime
Explosion: The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation
by Patrick Drazen
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Ars
Electronica 2004––The Exhibitions
Linz, Austria; September 2-7, 2004
Reviewed by Maia Engeli
Beyond
Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s
Lynn Zelevansky, Ed.
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Bicycling
Science
by David Gordon Wilson
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Digital Sublime: Myth, Power and, Cyberspace
by Vincent Mosco
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
The
Geometry of Multiple Images
by Olivier Faugeras and Quang-Tuan
Luong
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Ideas
That Shaped Buildings
by Fil Hearn
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Knock-Off:
Revenge on the Logo
by Anette Baldhauf and Katharina Weingartner
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Metacreation:
Art and Artificial Life
by Mitchell Whitelaw
Reviewed by Pia Tikka
Multiples/The
Lost Project
by Rocco Di Pietro
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style
by Caryl Flinn
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Typologies
of Industrial Buildings
By Bernd Becher and
Hilla Becher
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
October 2004
Ash
in the Rainbow
by Haco + Sakamoto Hiromichi
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
Audio
Culture: Readings in Modern Music
by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, Eds.
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
The
Boys: Music from the Feature Film
by The Necks
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
Dark
Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
by Ranjana Khanna
Reviewed by Coral Houtman
Digital
Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing
by Malcolm McCullough
Reviewed by Rob Harle
The
Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon
by André Millard, Ed.
Review by John F. Barber
Festival
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2004
Cineteca del Comune di Bologna and
the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero
3-10 July, 2004; Bologna, Italy
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Fresh
Talk / Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art
by Elaine H. Kim, Margo Machida, and Sharon
Mizota, Eds.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Jean
Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade
by Ivo Blom
Reviewed by Tom Gunning
Kuxa
Kanema: The Birth of Cinema
by Margarida Cardoso
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Lost
in Rooms
by Lutz Glandien
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
Musical-Aesthetic
Education: Synesthesia and Complex Influence of Arts
by N. Kolyadenko. Trans. by V.Skorokhodov
Reviewed by B.Galeyev
Railroad
Vision: Photography, Travel and Vision
by Anne M Lyden
Reviewed by George Shortess
Reveries
of the Solitary Walker
by Nikola Kodjabashia
and
Koncert!
by Kampec Dolores + Grensco Istvan
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
Slew:
A Compilation of Compilation Tracks 1990-2003
by Thomas Dimuzio
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
Space
Art
Anomalie Digital_Arts Issue, no.4
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Things
That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science
by Lorraine Daston, Eds.
Reviewed by Jan Baetans
Timeshift
: Towards an Anthropological Perspective
The World in Twenty-Five Years
Ars Electronica
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
Women,
Art & Technology
by Judy Malloy (Ed.)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
September 2004
ngloModern:
Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States
by Janet Wolff
Reviewed by Bill Seeley
Chronophobia:
On Time in the Art of the 1960’s
by Pamela M. Lee
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
A
Colloquium on Art/Science/Spirituality Reconnections Within Emerging Planetary
Cultures
1st Melilla Festival for
the 5 Cultures
Reviewed by Judy Kupferman
Davide
Grassi 02-04, Selected Works
by Bojana Kunst, Igor Spanjol, Ana
Buigues, and Antonio Caronia
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Desert
Island and Other Texts, 1953-1974
by Gilles Deleuze; David Lapoujade,
Editor; Michael Taormina, Translator
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
A
Field Guide to Bacteria
by Betsey Dexter Dyer
Reviewed by Kasey Asberry
First
Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game
by Noah Wardrop-Fruin and Pat Harrigan,
Eds.
Reviewd by Jan Baetens
Howard
Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
by Deb
Ellis and Denis Mueller
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Kazuo
Ohno’s World: From Without and Within
by Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno; Trans.
by John Barrett
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
Memories
Are Made of This: How Memory Works in Humans and Animals
by Rusiko
Bourtchouladze
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Me
+ +: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
by William J. Mitchell
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
A
Moment in Time: The Sardari Lal Parasher Retrospective
by The Sarnir Foundation and the Visual
Arts Gallery
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma
Monstrosities:
Bodies and British Romanticism
by Paul Youngquist
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Navigating
Stevenson: Digital Artworks by Sara Gadd
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh,
2003
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
A
New York Minute
by Alan Licht
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
August 2004
Activity-Centered
Design: An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Systems
Geri Gay and Helene Hembrooke
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Artful
History: A Restoration Comedy
by Jason Simon and Mark Dion
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The
Cinema Effect
by Sean Cubit
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
Design
Research: Methods and Perspectives
by Brenda Laurel, Editor
Reviewed by Maia Engeli
Frank
Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Buildings
by Jonathan Lipman
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Ghouls,
Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968
by Kevin Heffernan
Review by John F. Barber
God’s
Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
by Lynd Ward
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
History
After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South
Africa
by Annie E. Coombes
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
La
Commune (Paris 1871)
by Peter Watkins
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Les
défis du cybermonde
by Hervé Fischer, Editor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Neo-Baroque
Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment
by Angela Ndalianis
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Purity
And Provocation: Dogma 95
by Mette Hjort and Scott McKenzie, Editors
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Red
Edge
by Frode Gjerstad and Lasse Marhaug
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Rhythm
Science
by Paul D. Miller (aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal
Kid)
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening
in America, 1900-1933
by Emily Thompson
Reviewed by Trace Reddell
Tranzition
by Richard Pinhas
Reviewed by Trace Reddel
Understanding
Me: Lectures and Interviews
by Marshall McLuhan
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
You
Can Hear me
by Ehmes (Pat Mantovi)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
July 2004
Advertising
Outdoors
by David Bernstein
and
History
of the Poster
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Amartya
Sen: A Life Re-examined
by Suman Ghose, Director and Producer
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma
America
as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives as New Beginnings
by David E. Nye
Reviewed by Michael Punt
The
Cinema Effect
by Sean Cubit
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
Close
Reading New Media: Analyzing Electronic Media
by Jan Van Looy and Jan Baetens
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Compelling
Visuality: The Work of Art in and out of History
by Claire Farago and Robert Zwijnenberg,
Editors
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Digital
People: From Bionic Humans to Androids
by Sidney Perkowitz
Reviewed by John F. Barber, Ph. D
Earthly
Paradises: Ancient Gardens in History and Archaeology
by Maureen Carroll
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Had
gadya: The Only Kid. Facsimile of El Lissitzky's Edition of 1919
by Arnold J. Band, Editor; with an Introduction
by Nancy Perloff
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age
by Suzanne Anker and Dorothy Nelkin
Reviewed by George Gessert
Neurology
Of The Arts: Painting, Music, Literature
by F. Clifford Rose, Editor
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Photographers
of Genius at the Getty
by Weston Naef
Reviewed by Julia Peck
Russia
at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era
by Louise McReynolds
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Shooting
Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images
by David M. Lubin
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Telematic
Embrace. Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness
by Roy Ascott. Edited and with an essay by Edward A. Shanken
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Typography:
Formation and Transformation
by Willi Kunz
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
June 2004
American
Type Design and Designers
by David Consuegra
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Biocosm:
The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life is the Architect
of the Universe
by James N. Gardner
Reviewed by Rob Harle
How
Images Think
by Ron Burnett
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
HYLE:
International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
by Tami I. Spector and Joachim Schummer,
Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle
IT
Project Estimation: A Practical Guide to the Costing of Software
by Paul Coombs
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Laughter
Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
by Donna M. Goldstein
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Museums
for the 21st Century
by Josep Maria Montaner
Reviewed by Dennis Dollens
Odd
Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas
by Carol Armstrong
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Picasso:
Style and Meaning
By Elizabeth Cowling
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The
Red Book of Cultures
Europe-Asia Contemporary Music Festival
Reviewed by Alexandre A. Ovsyannikov
Where
Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other
Things Come to Be As They Are
by Harvey Molotch
Reviewed by John Knight
A
Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris 1918-1939
by Sophie Lévy, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Twisty
Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction
by Nick Montfort
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Ulm
Method and Design: Ulm School of Design 1953-1968
by Ulmer Museum / HfG-Archive, with
essays by Gui Bonsiepe, et al
Reviewed
by Roy R. Behrens
Luchino
Visconti
by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
May 2004
Against
Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850-1930
By Radu Stern
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Arcane
Devices: Engines of Myth
by David Lee Myers
Reviewed by Curtis E.A. Karnow
ART
MOVES: 2003
Department of Art Faculty Exhibiton catalog
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Avant-Garde
Page Design 1900-1950
by Jaroslav Andel
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Beyond
Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity
by William J. Mitchell, Allan S. Inouye,
and Marjory S. Blumenthal, Editors
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Brecht
in L.A.
by Rick Mitchell
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Deep
Gossip
by Henry Abelove
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Drive-By
by The Necks
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Effigies
in Cork
by VRIL
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Essential
Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Bernard J. Baars, William P. Banks, James
B. Newman (eds.)
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Jaroslav
Rössler: Czech Avant-Garde Photographer
by Vladimir Birgus and Jan Mlcoch, Editors;
Derek Paton, Translator
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
The
Moving Image
University of Minnesota Press
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Prints.
Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures 1987-2001
by Fred Frith
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Spoors
The Science Group
and
Crashing
Icons
Absolute Zero
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Wenda
Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium
by Mark H.C. Bessire, Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle
YLEM
Journal: Artists Using Science and Technology
Reviewed by Rob Harle
April 2004
Connected
or What it Means to Live in the Network Society
by Steven Shaviro
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Francis
Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
by Gilles Deleuze; Translated by Daniel
W. Smith
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Global
Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age
Linda Krause and Patrice Petro, Editors
Reviewed by Mike Moshe
Light-sound
Musical Harmony: An Elementary Theory of Audio-Visual Stimuli
by V.V. Afanasjev
Reviewed by Bulat M. Galeyev
Luce:
Optical Theatre of Sergei Zorin
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