Reviews 2010-2011 | Click here for reviews archiveAre You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art by Ken Johnson Reviewed by Nicolas Langlitz Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds by Louise Barrett Reviewed by Dr Elizabeth McCardell A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado by Parvati Nair Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner Reviewed by Amy Ione Infinite Instances: Studies and Images of Time by Olga Ast Reviewed by Jack Ox John Cage by Julia Robinson, Editor Reviewed by Rob Harle Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media by Jason Farman Reviewed by Dene Grigar Number Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction by Paul J. Nahim Reviewed by Irene Kaimi The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality Nicholas Mirzoeff Reviewed by Jan Baetens Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage Reviewed by John F. Barber What is Science? by Sundar Sarukkai Reviewed by Roger F Malina Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by Kara Reilly Reviewed by John F. Barber Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds by Louise Barrett Reviewed by Daniel J. Povinelli 3-D Displays and Spatial Interaction, Vol. 1 From Perception to Technology by Barry G. Blundell Reviewed by George Shortess The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution by Dean Falk Reviewed by Rob Harle Global Icons. Apertures to the Popular by Bishnupriya Ghosh Reviewed by Jan Baetens Imagery in the 21st Century by Oliver Grau, Editor; with Thomas Veigl Reviewed by Amy Ione New Art/Science Affinities by Andrea Grover, Régine Debatty, Claire Evans, Pablo Garcia, Thumb Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface by Robin Clark; foreword by Hugh M. Davies Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France by Tom Conley and The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science and Culture by SueEllen Campbell Reviewed by Mike Leggett Ship Shape: A Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook by Roy R. Behrens Reviewed by Mike Leggett Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life by Alastair Brotchie Reviewed by Allan Graubard Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Bratu Hansen Reviewed by Jan Baetens Duets: 1975-1976 by Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley Reviewed by Mike Mosher The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution by Dean Falk Reviewed by Rob Harle Great Discoveries in Medicine by William Bynum, Helen Bynum, Editors Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy by Charles Fourier; translated and with an introduction by Geoffrey Longnecker Reviewed by Mike Mosher Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian, foreword by William H. McNeill Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff Reviewed by John F. Barber Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life by Brandon LaBelle Reviewed by John F. Barber Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human by Deborah Christie, Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editors Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith Facebook's "Adorno Changed My Life" by Georg Boch, Director Reviewed by Mike Mosher Gaming Matters: Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister Reviewed by John F. Barber How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost Reviewed by John F. Barber Magical Mathematics by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham; foreword by Martin Gardner Reviewed by Phil Dyke Modernism After Wagner by Juliet Koss Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects by Paola Antonelli Reviewed by John F. Barber Twilight Visions. Surrealism and Paris by Therese Lichtenstein Reviewed by Jan Baetens Art and the Senses by Francesca Bacci and David Melcher, Editors Reviewed by Rob Harle Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo, Editors Reviewed by Allan Graubard The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence by Michael J. Graetz C.F. Black With Magnetic Fields Disrupted by Sproton Layer Reviewed by Mike Mosher Television as Digital Media by James Bennett and Niki Strange, Editors Reviewed by John F. Barber The Terror of History. On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization by Teofilo F. Ruiz Reviewed by Jan Baetens Players Unleashed! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming by Tanja Sihvonen Reviewed by Hannah Drayson The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World The Color of Your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts Through The Looking Glass Materials Received Plymouth December 2011 Contemporary Art In Asia - A Critical Reader by Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio, Editors Reviewed by Ellen Pearlman The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time by Jane Gallop Reviewed by Jan Baeten Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life by Justin E. H. Smith Reviewed by Rob Harle A Little-Known Story About a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973 by Margit Rosen, Editor Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated by Gabriella Giannachi and Nick Kaye Reviewed by Elizabeth McCardell Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection by Katharine Park Reviewed by Dr Jac Saorsa The Techno-Human Condition by Braden R. Allenby & Daniel Sarewitz Reviewed by Rob Harle Art Biennale - Venice, Italy Illuminations: 54th International Art Exhibition, June 4th - November 27th, 2011 Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann New Materials Received in Plymouth November 2011 Compiled by Martyn Ward Bach Jazz: Güher and Süher Pekinel Featuring the Jacques Loussier Trio by Barrie Gavin, Hanno Rinke, et al., Directors Reviewed by Richard Kade Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law by Kembrew McLeod & Rudolf Kuenzli, Editors Reviewed by Rob Harle Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979 by Destroy All Monsters Reviewed by Mike Mosher A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field: Bridging the Humanities -Neuroscience Divide by Barbara Maria Stafford, Editor Reviewed by Rob Harle Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution by George Gessert Reviewed by Craig Hilton Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, Editors Reviewed by Amy Ione Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan Dancing by Ann Cooper Albright Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini Remixthebook by Mark Amerika Reviewed by Jan Baetens Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, and Maria Papadomanolaki, Editors Reviewed by John F. Barber September 2011 Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians, Brandon Ballengée Nicola Triscott and Miranda Pope, Editors Reviewed by Mike Leggett The Milemete Treatise and Companion Secretum Secretorum: Iconography, Audience, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century England by Libby Karlinger Escobedo Reviewed by Rob Harle The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. Berry Reviewed by Jussi Parikka Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin by Riccardo Manzotti Reviewed by Amy Ione Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicolas de Monchaux Reviewed by Valérie Lamontagne Materials Received Plymouth September 2011 Compiled by Martyn Woodward August 2011 Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive Bauhaus Dream-house - Modernity and globalization by Katerina Rüedi Ray Reviewed by Florence Martellini Celluloid Symphonies. Texts and Contexts in Film Music History Julie Hubbert, Editor Reviewed by Jan Baetens Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology by Susan Broadhurst Reviewed by Rob Harle Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man by Mark Changizi Reviewed by Richard Kade by Lisa B. Osborn, Shane K. Bernard, and Scott Carroll, Editors Reviewed by Allan Graubard Inside Jokes — Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Editors Reviewed by Edith Doove Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention by Paul Scheerbart; Andrew Joron, Translator Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica Materials Received Plymouth August 2011 Compiled by Martyn Woodward July 2011 Arnheim for Film and Media Studies ArtScience: A Journey Through Creativity - permanent exhibition and Travelling the Silk Road exhibition Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work East Bay Open Studios Preview Exhibition and East Bay Open Studios 2011 Fastwürms Donky@Ninja@Witch: A Living Retrospective
The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing
The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine Think Art - Act Science (Pensar art – Actuar ciència): Swiss artists-in-labs Visceral: The Living Art Experiment New materials received - July 2011 |
