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 dellantiprospettiva
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
Ilaiyaraajas
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
Dont
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 DistancePrecursors 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
Calatravas 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 Users 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: Orlans Refacing
by C. Jill OBryan
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/IllusionThe
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
Dessaus 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
BridgesTraumbrücken
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. Gehrys 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
Calatravas 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
Architectures
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 iimuraFilm, Video, Multimedia (1978-2001)
by Kazuyo Yasuda, Editor
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Under
the Spell of Dziga Vertovs 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 TechnologySpace 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 Carsons 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
ModernismA 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 2004The 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 1960s
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
Ohnos 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
Gods
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
by
Yu Linnik
Reviewed by Bulat Galeyev
Mapping
Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age
by
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Michael Marrinan, Editors
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
Marguerite: A Reflection of Herself
by Dominique Auvray
Reviewed by Aaris SherinMarch 2004
Masaccio:
Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece
by Eliot W. Rowlands
Reviewed by Amy Ione
The
Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory
by Patricia Pisters
Reviewed by David Surman
Oryx
and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
Reviewed by George Gessert
Philosophizing
Art: Selected Essays
by Arthur C. Danto
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Random
Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant Garde
by Branden W. Joseph
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Paul
Rand: Modernist Design
by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Reading
Psycho-Analysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck
by Peter L. Rudnytsky
Reviewed by Coral Houtman
Rules
of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
Reviewed by Maia Engeli
The
Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design
by Vilém Flusser, trans Anthony Matthews, Intro Martin Pawley
and
Towards
a Philosophy of Photography
by Vilém Flusser, trans Anthony Matthews, intro Hubertus Von Amelunxen
and
Writings
by Vilém Flusser, ed and intro Andreas Stršhl, trans Erik Eisel
and
The
Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism
by Vilém Flusser, trans Kenneth Kronenberg, ed and intro Anke K
Finger,
Reviewed by Sean
Cubitt
A
Theory of /Cloud/: Toward a History of Painting
by Hubert Damisch.
Reviewed by Ian Verstegen
March
2004
Animal,
Vegetable, Video
by Sam Easterson
Reviewed by Luisa Paraguai Donati
The
Art of Looking Sideways
by Alan Fletcher
and
Beware
Wet Paint
by Alan Fletcher
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Emotional
Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things
by Donald Norman
Reviewed by John Knight
Mehmet
Güleryüz. Forty Years of Drawing: Retrospective Drawing Exhibition
1963-2003
by Nihal Elvan, Ed.
Reviewed by Aaris Sherin
Painted
Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era
by Hollis Clayson
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
The
Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
by Slavoj Zizek
Reviewed by Rick Mitchell
Sarai
Reader 03: Shaping Technologies
by Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram, Jeebesh
Bagchi, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta [Sarai], Geert Lovink, Marleen
Stikker [Waag], Eds.
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma
Science,
Not Art: Ten Scientists' Diaries
Jon Turney, Ed.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Sex,
Time and Power: How Womens Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
by Leonard Shlain
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Windows
and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency
by Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala
Reviewed by Rob Harle
February 2004
The
Abyss of Representation: Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime
by George Hartley,
Reviewed by Malcolm Miles
American
Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920 to 1960
by R. Roger Remington with Lisa Bodenstedt
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Art,
Not Chance: Nine Artists' Diaries
by Paul Allen, ed.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
An
Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design 1830-1842
by Melville C. Branch
Reviewed by Kasey Asberrr
Beyond
Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity
by William J. Mitchell, Alan S. Inouye,
and Marjory S. Blumenthal, Editors
Reviewed by Amy Ione
The
Book of the Pharaohs
by Pascal Vernus and Jean Yoyotte
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara
A
Culture of Fact, England, 1550-1720
by Barbara J. Shapiro
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Digital
Magazine Design
by Paul Honeywill and Daniel Carpenter
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Heteroptera:
The Beautiful and the Other or Images of A Mutating World
by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
The
Industrial Design Reader
edited by Carma Gorman
and
Designing
for People
by Henry S. Dreyfuss
and
Industrial
Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
by Glenn Adamson
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
INTERMEDIA:
alteridem.exe
Sabau, G. et al (eds.)
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Introduction
to Imaging
by Howard Besser
Reviewed by George Shortess
Spectral
Evidence: The Photography of Trauma
by Ulrich Baer
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Teaching
at the Bauhaus
by Rainer K. Wick
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
A
Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton
by Kate Colquhoun
Reviewed by Dennis Dollens
Les
Unites Semiotiques Temporelles
Nouvelles cles pour lecoute
(Outil danalyse musicale)
CD ROM by MIM (Laboratoire Musique Informatique
de Marseille)
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
Women,
Art and Technology
edited by Judy Malloy
Reviewed by Aaris Sherin
January
2004
Absurd
Summer
by Koji Asano
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Anecdotal
Theory
by Jane Gallop
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Art,
Not Chance: Nine Artists' Diaries
edited by Paul Allen
and
Science,
Not Art: Ten Scientists' Diaries
edited by Jon Turney
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Creation:
Life and How to Make It
By Steve Grand
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
A
Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720
by Barbara J. Shapiro.
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Digital
Creativity: A Reader
Edited by Colin Beardon and Lone Malmborg
and
Digital
Media Revisited
Edited by Gunnar Liestol, Andrew Morrison, and Terje Rasmussen
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader
edited by Claudine Frank; translated by
Claudine Frank and Camille Nash
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
The
Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac
Edited by Sheilah Britton and Dan Collins
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Eloquent
Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media
by Mary E. Hocks and Michelle R. Kendrick,
Eds.
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Els
Altres Arquitectes (The Other Architects)
Museu de Zoologia, Barcelona, Spain
Reviewed by Dennis Dollens
Enough
by Bill McKibben. New York: Henry Holt, 2003.
Reviewed by George Gessert
Genetic
Architectures / Arquitecturas genéticas
by Alberto T. Estévez et al. Lumen
Books / SITES Books,
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Hacker
Culture
By Douglas Thomas. University of Minnesota Press,
Minneapolis, MN, 2002.
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
IN
THE GARDEN
Yusef Lateef, Adam Rudolph, Go: Organic Orchestra
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Late
Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
By Maynard Solomon
Reviewed by Richard Kade
Masks
of the Universe: Changing Ideas on the Nature of the Cosmos
by Edward Harrison.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Matters
of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
by Scott Bukatman
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Peoples Music
Jon Rose
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Situating
El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow
Edited by Nancy Perloff and Brain Reed
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Stalinist
Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity 1917-1941
By David L. Hoffman
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Teaching
Graphic Design: Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Undergraduate
and Graduate Programs
Edited by Steven Heller
Reviewed by Aaris Sherin
The
Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture
By Roger N. Lancaster
Reviewed by Pia Tikka
Undead
Science: Science Studies and the Afterlife of Cold Fusion
by Bart Simon
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Vingt
Chansons pour Jean Cocteau
(Twenty Songs for Jean Cocteau)
by Maurice Methot
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
December 2003
Anni
Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain
by Virginia
Gardner Troy
Reviewed by Aaris Sherin
Ambiguity
in Art and in the Brain
Public lecture by Semir Zeki
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Between
Species: Celebrating The Dolphin-Human Bond
by Toni Frohoff & Brenda Peterson, eds.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
A
Brush with Life
A film by Glen Salzman and Martin Duckworth
Reviewed by Aaris Sherin
Citizen
Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility
Edited
by Steven Heller and Véronique Vienne
Reviewed
by Aaris Sherin
Cymatics:
A Study of Wave Phenomena and Vibration
by Hans
Jenny
Reviewed
by Robert Pepperell
Degas
Through His Own Eyes
by Michael F. Marmor
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Merz
to Émigré and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the
Twentieth Century
by Steven
Heller
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Primitivism
and twentieth-century art: A documentary history
Ed. Jack Flam and Miriam Deutch
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Real-Life
X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal
By Joe Nickell.
Reviewed by Michael Punt
The
17th Annual Conference of the Society for Literature and Science
Austin, Texas. October
23-26, 2003
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Vision
and art: The biology of seeing
by
M. Livingstone
Reviewed by Cynthia Ann Bickley-Green
November
2003
Fagus:
Industrial Culture from Werkbund to Bauhaus
By
Annemarie Jaeggi
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Lester
Beall: Space, Time and Content
By
R. Roger Remington.
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Black
Mountain College: Experiment in art
Edited
by Vincent Katz
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
Bill
Viola: the Passions
by Peter Sellars and
John Walsh
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
Telematic
Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness
by Roy Ascott
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Prefiguring
Cyberculture: An Intellectual History
Darren
Tofts, et. al. eds.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Digital
Dragon, High-Technology Enterprises in China
by
Adam Segal
Reviewed by Stefaan
van Ryssen
Arranging
Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement
by
Leonard Koren
Reviewed by Margaret Dolinsky
Ars
Electronica 2003: CODE ' The Language of our Time
Linz,
Austria, September 6-11
Reviewed by Maia Engeli
Husserl’s
Phenomenology
by
Dan Zahavi
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Innovations
in Education: the art and science partnership
Qatar
Foundation, Education City, Doha,
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Foul
Perfection
Edited by John C. Welchman
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Posthuman Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain
by Robert
Pepperell.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Silent
Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film
Actors and Actresses.
by Anthony Slide
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Solitary
Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
Thomas W. Laquer
Zone Books, New York, 2003
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Step
across the border
by Fred Frith
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
La
Biennale di Venezia
50th International Art Exhibition
"Dreams and Conflict. The Dictatorship of the Viewer"
by
Francesco Bonami
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
October 2003
Action
and Reaction: The Life and Adventure of a Couple
by
Jean Starobinski, Translated by Sophie Hawkes with Jeff Fort
Reviewed by Margaret Dolinsky
Beyond
Productivity Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity
by
William J. Mitchell, Alan. S. Inouye and Marjory S. Blumenthal
Reviewed by Bronac Ferran
Crepuscular
Dawn
by
Paul Virilio & Sylvère Lotringer
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
The
Curvature of Spacetime: Newton, Einstein, and Gravitation
By
Harald Fritzsch
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Depression
Dog
by
Toby Olson
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Giants
of Delft: Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers: The Parallel
Search for Knowledge during the Age of Discovery
by
Robert D. Huerta
Reviewed by David Topper
Howard Finster: Man of Visions
A film by Julie Desroberts, Randy Paskal
and Dave Carr
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Illuminating
the Renaissance:
The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe
by
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick
and
Treasures of a Lost Art:
Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
by Pia Palladino
Reviewed by Amy Ione
The
Imagined World Made Real: Towards a Natural Science of Culture
by
Henry Plotkin.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Invention
of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere
by
George Didi-Huberman
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
12
Japanese Masters
by
Maggie Kinser Saik
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Matters
of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
by
Scott Bukatman
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
The
Mayne Inheritance
Written
by Rosamond Siemon.
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Memories
Are Made of This: How Memory Works in Humans and Animals
By
Rusiko Bourtchouladze
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Memory
and Dreams: The Creative Human Mind
by
George Christos.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Naturoids:
On the Nature of the Artificial
by
Massimo Negrotti.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
The
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Vincent B. Leitch, et al., eds.
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Seeing
/ Hearing / Speaking
by
Takahiko Iimura.
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Women
Artists: The Other Side of the Picture
Reviewed
by Aaris Sherin
Zinat:
One Special Day
Reviewed
by Aaris Sherin
September 2003
Against
the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition
by
Gabriel P. Weisberg
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
AngloModern:
Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States
by
Janet Wolff, Cornell University Press, Ithica and London, 2003
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
by
Jonathan Sterne
Reviewed by Michael Punt
BEAP
02 | The Exhibitions Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
John
Curtin Gallery
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Coded
Characters: Media Art by Jill Scott
by
Marille Hahne, editor
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Cognition
et création, Explorations cognitives des processus de conception
by
Mario Borillo and Jean-Pierre Goulette (eds.)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Consciousness
Reframed 2003: Art and Consciousness in the Post-biological Era
The Fifth CAiiA International Research Conference
Reviewed by Pia Tikka
Eisenstein:
The Master's House
A
film by Naum Klejman, Marianna Kireyewa and Alexander Iskin Website: http://www.frif.com.
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Exodesic:
Structures, Tumbleweeds, Electronics
by
Dennis L. Dollens.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Film
and Authorship
Edited
and with an Introduction by Virginia Wright Wexman
and
The Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory
and Art History
Edited and With an Introduction by Angela Dalle
Vacche
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Frankenstein:
Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
by
Susan E. Lederer
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Hop
on Pop, The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
by
Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson and Jane Shattuc, editors
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Index
Architecture
Edited
by Bernard Tschumi and Matthew Berman
Reviewed by Dennis Dollens
Isamu
Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth
by
Louise Allison Cort and Bert Winther-Tamaki.
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Making
Space: The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning
by
Nora S. Newcombe and Janellen Huttenlocher
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Multiculturalism,
Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media
Edited
and With an Introduction by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Painted
Landscapes of the Times: The Art of Sue Coe
A
film by Helene Klodawsky
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Picturing
Extraterrestrials: Alien Images in Modern Culture
by
John F. Moffitt
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Snap
to Grid: A User s Guide to Digital Arts, Media and Cultures
by
Peter Lunenfeld
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Virtual Score: Representation, Retrieval, Restoration; Computing in Musicology
12
Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field, eds
Reviewed by Richard Kade
Writing
and Developing Your College Textbook
Mary
Ellen Lepionka
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Zygosis
A
film by Gavin Hodge and Tim Morrison
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
August 2003
The
Architecture of Doom
by
Peter Cohen
Reviewed
by Roy R. Behrens
The
Art of Teaching Art: A Guide for Teaching and Learning the Foundations
of Drawing-Based Art
By
Deborah Rockman.
Reviewed
by Roy R. Behrens
The
Art of Programming, Sonic Acts 2001 conference book
by
Frans Evers, Lucas van der Velden and Jan Peter van der Wenden (eds.)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Gendered World of the Bauhaus: The Politics of Power at the Weimar Republic's
Premier Art Institute, 1919-1932
By
Anja Baumhoff. Peter Lang,
Reviewed by R. Roger Remington
BitArt
By Robert J. Krawczyk
Reviewed by Luisa Paraguai Donati
Black
Mountain College: Experiment in Art
Edited
by Vincent Katz.
Reviewed
by Roy R. Behrens
boundary
2 an international journal of literature and culture
Co-edited
by Keven McLaughlin and Philip Rosen
Reviewed
by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Pierre
Bourdieu: Sociology Is A Martial Art
Directed
by Pierre Carles
Reviewed
by Roy R. Behrens
Cyberculture
By
Pierre Lévy
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Enactive
Consciousness: Perception, Intersubjectivity and Empathy
Reviewed
by Robert Pepperell
Fluxus
Experience
By Hannah Higgins
Reviewed by Roy Behrens
First
Kill
Directed
by Coco Schrijber
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
In
the Mind of the Architect
Directed
by Tim Clark
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Photography's
Other Histories
Edited by Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Plants,
Patents and the Historian,
(Re)membering in the Age of Genetic Engineering
By
Paolo Palladino
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Realism
& Antirealism
Edited by William P. Alston
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Towards
a Science of Consciousness 2003:
Between Phenomenology and Neuroscience Conference
Reviewed
by Robert Pepperell
The
50th Venice Biennale, 2003
Reviewed
by "Elaine W. Ng
Visual
Pedagogy, Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom
By Brian Goldfarb
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
New Wave By Itself
Directed
by Robert Valey and Andre S. Labarth
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Telematic
Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness.
By
Roy Ascott
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Seeing/Hearing/Speaking
Takahiro
iimura
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
July 2003
Buddhism
& Science: Breaking new ground
Edited
by B. Alan Wallace
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma
Exploring
Consciousness
by
Rita Carter
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Potential
Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art
by
Dario Gamboni
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
The
Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale
by
Dorothea E. von Mücke.
Reviewed by Michael Punt
SETI
2020: A roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
by
Roland D. Ekers et. al (eds.)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Valie
Export. Media Anagrams (German original: "Mediale Anagramme")
edited
by Neue Gesellschaft fuer Bildende Kunst,
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
June 2003
The
Ambassadors Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance
by
John North
Reviewed by David Topper
Available
Instruments
by
William Kleinsasser
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Fix
It In Post (Live, 1997-2001)
by
The Freight Elevator Quartet,
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
From
animals tot animats 7
by
Hallam, Bridget, Dario Loreano, John Hallam,
Gillian Hayes and Jean-Arcady Meyer (eds.)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Improvisational
Design: Continuous, Responsive Digital
Communication
by
Suguru Ishizaki
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Making
Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy
By
Carolyn Korsmeyer
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Media
Worlds: Anthropology on a New Terrain
by
Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Nomadic
Transitions: Thinking about Art
Chaired
by Drs. Jill Scott and Sigrid Schade
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Other
American Voices
by
Corinna Belz & Nel Hollander
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Pause
& Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative
By
Mark Stephen Maedows
Reviewed by Maia Engeli
Reinventing
Pragmatism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century
by
Joseph Margolis
Reviewed by Ian Verstegen
Sociology
is a Martial Art
Directed
by Pierre Carles
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Tan-Go:
The Best of Tangerine Dream 1990 - 2000
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
Where
The Action Is: Foundations of Embodied Interaction
by
Paul Dourish
Reviewed by Diane Gromala
May 2003
Computer
Music Journal, Vol. 26, Number 4, Language Inventors on the Future of
Music Software
Reviewed
by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Inferno
by
Tangerine Dream
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Exploring
Science: The Cognition and Development of Discovery Processes by
David Klahr
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Robert
Irwin Getty Garden
by
Lawrence Weschler
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Bodies
in Technology
by
Don Ihde
Reviewed by Maureen Nappi
Complexity
/ Art And Complex Systems
Reviewed
by
Adrienne Klein and Brian Schwartz
The
Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs
by
Marcus Boon
Reviewed by George Gessert
El
Proyecto Tumble Truss/ The TumbleTruss Project
by
Dennis L. Dollens
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Art of Humane Education
by Verene, Donald Phillip
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Einstein
Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
by
Arthur I. Miller
and
Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art
and the Brain
by Semir Zeki
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
April 2003
Art
lyrique et art numérique, A propos d'une scenographie virtuelle
interactive de Norma de Bellini. Actes de la jounée d'études
du 17 aoüt 2001
by Alain Bonardi (ed.).
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Coney
Island: The Peoples Playground
By Michael Immerso.
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Czech
Photographic Avant-Garde: 1918-1948
by
Vladimír Birgus.
Reviewed by Claire Barliant
Dust
Theories
by Kim Cascone
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Fantasies
of Fetishism: From Decadence to the Post-Human
by Amanda Fernbach
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Guy
Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents
edited by Tom McDonough
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
The
New Wave By Itself
Dir. Robert Valey and André S. Labath
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Problemarket,
Problem Stock Exchange, Annual Report 2001-2002
by Davide Grassi and Igor Stromajer.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Soundscape of Modernity, Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening
in America 1900-1933
by Emily Thompson
Reviewed
by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Time
Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement
(Exhibition) Guest Curator Philip
Prodger, and
Time
Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement
By Philip Prodger and Tom Gunning
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Art
and dynamic utopia of interactivity and connectivity:
R.
Ascott's "Technoetic Arts"
translated by Yi Won Kon, Yonsei
Reviewed by Jeong Hee Bae
Technoetic
Arts
By
Ascott, Roy.
Edited and Korean translationby YI, Won-Kon.
Reviewed by Ms. Soh Yeong Roh
March 2003
Introduction to Art Image Access Tools,
Standards, and Strategies
edited by Murtha Baca
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
Bernd and Hilla Becher Industrial
Landscapes
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
New Works of St.Petersburg
Composers Treating Biblical Subjects
Reviewed by M.Zalivadny
Design Humor: The Art of Graphic
Wit
by Steven Heller
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Ezra Pound's Radio Operas
by Margaret Fisher
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
FIRE & ICE Treasures from the
Photographic Collection of Frederick Church at Olana Thomas
by Weston Fels and Kevin J. Avery
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
Geometry of Design: Studies
in Proportion and Composition
by Kimberly Elam
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Writing
Machines by
N. Katherine Hayles
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Images from
Science: An Exhibition of Scientific Photography
by the
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs
and the New Computing Technologies
by Ben Shneiderman
Reviewed by Jack Ox
Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde:
From Paris to New York
edited by Joseph Helferstein and Jordana Mendelson
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The Senses of Modernism:
technology, perception, and aesthetics
by Sara Danius
Reviewed by George Shortess
Othermindedness:
the Emergence of Network Culture
by Michael Joyce
Reviewed by
Michael R. Mosher
Nowhere in Particular
by Jonathan Miller
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The Mathematics
of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge
by Clifford A. Pickover
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
pict.soul
by Tetsu Inoue and Carl Stone
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Publicitys Secret: How
Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy
by Jodi Dean
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
edited by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth
Reviewed by Michael
R. Mosher
./swank
by Interface
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Shine02.org
Reviewed by Luisa Paraguai
Donati
Hanging out in the Virtual Pub Masculinities
and Relationships Online
by Lori Kendall
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
Micropolitics of Media Culture:
Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari
edited by Patricia Pisters 2001
Reviewed by Michael
R. Mosher
February 2003
Archimedia: Changes and Challenges
(1) Film Archives in the Digital era: New Concepts and new Policies
Nederlands Film Museum, 16-18 January 2003
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Central European Avant-Gardes:
Exchange and transformation, 1910-1930 Timothy
O. Benson (ed.)
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Conceptual art and painting:
Further essays on Art & Language
By Charles Harrison
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
CTRL[SPACE], Rhetorics of Surveillance
from Bentham to Big Brother
Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne and Peter Weibel (eds.)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
From Energy to Information:
Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature Bruce
Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson (eds.)
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion
(Leonardo Books)
by Oliver Grau
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Mille Gilles A film by Ijsbrand
van Veelen
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Obey The Giant: Life in the Image
World
by Rick Poynor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
PARABLES FOR THE VIRTUAL:
Movement, affect, sensation
by Brian Massumi.
Reviewed by Angela Ndalianis
Postmodernism and Globalization
in Ethnomusicology, An Epistemological Problem by Andy Nercessian
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of
Painting by Robert Storr
Gerhard RICHTER 858 David Breskin (ed.)
Reviewed by Amy Ione
The Secret by Eve Hoffman
Reviewed by George Gessert
The Spectre of Hope: With Sebastiäo
Salgado and John Berger
Directed by Paul Carlin (VHS)
Migrations by Sebastiäo Salgado
The Children: Refugees and Migrants
by Sebastiäo Salgado and Lelia Wanick Salgado (eds.)
Reviewed by Amy Ione
The Scientific Temper: An Anthology
of Stories on Matters of Science
by Anthony R. Michaelis
Reviewed by David Topper
Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory
Media
by Laura U. Marks
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
January 2003
Iconoclash: Beyond the image
wars in science, religion, and art
Edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
The Body Electric: An Anatomy of
the New Bionic Senses
by James Geary
Reviewed by Stephen Wilson
Mediaworks by Nancy Paterson
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The Virtual Score: Representation,
Retrieval, Restoration.
Computing in Musicology 12
edited by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Architects + Engineers =
Structures
by Ivan Margolius. Wiley-Academy
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Artmedia VIII From Aesthetics
of Communication to Net Art (Conference)
Reviewed by Maia Engeli, CAiiA-STAR
ArtSci 2002: New Dimensions in
Collaboration
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Automobiles by Architects
by Ivan Margolius
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed
by Harold Koda. Metropolitan
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Computer Music Journal: Music
Information Processing
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The Deleuze Connections
by John Rajchman
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
DOC(K)S, 3: 21/22/23/24, un
notre web (a web of ours) Edited by Akenaton (Philippe
Castellin and Jean Torregrosa)
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Envisioning Science: The
Design and Craft of the Science Image
by Felice Frankel
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
JI Festival Internacional de
arte, ciencia y technologia: dinamicas fluidas
by Juan Carrete Parrondo (ed.) et. al.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Transit by John Fitz Rogers
(composer) and Michael Nicollela (guitar)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Frost photographs by Hans
Danuser. Text by Urs Stahel
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Micropolitics of Media Culture:
Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari Edited by Patricia Pisters
Reviewed by Michael R. Mosher
Networked Art by Craig
J. Saper
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
North America by Curlew
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
pulse music... by John McGuire
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Computers and Typography 2
Compiled by Rosemary Sassoon
Reviewed by Michael R. Mosher
Art, Technology, Consciousness:
Mind @ Large
Edited by Roy Ascott
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
December 2002
Music and Technology in the Twentieth
Century
Ed. Hans Joachim Braun
Reviewed by Chris Cobb
Lewis Carroll, Photographer
by Roger Taylor and Edward Wakeling
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Exploring Consciousness by
Rita Carter
By Amy Ione
Representing Place; Landscape Painting
and Maps
By Edward S. Casey
By Amy Ione
Cooper, Dave. Crumple, the Status
of Knuckle
Reviewed by George Gessert
Writings by Vilém
Flusser
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Painting Outside the Lines:
Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
by David W. Galenson
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Mirror of Consciousness: Art,
Creativity and Veda
by Anna Bonshek
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Theater goes Reality TV
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
Society for Literature and Science
(SLS) Conference
Reviewed by Ellen K. Levy
YPGPN by Phill Niblock (CD
audio)
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
One Place After Another: Site-Specific
Art and Locational Identity
by Miwon Kwon
Reviewed by Claire Barliant
11th International Symposium on Electronic
Art
Reviewed by Michael Punt
ISEA2002: connecting art &
technology with transportation, transit, tourism, and theory Reviewed
by Simone Osthoff
HolesLiningThreads
(Website) by artist: Alicia Felberbaum
Reviewed by Luisa Paraguai Donati
November 2002
Designing Sociable Robots
by Cynthia L. Breazeal
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The Judgement of the Eye: The Metamorphoses
of GeometryOne of the Sources of Visual Perception and Consciousness
by Jürgen Weber
Reviewed by Amy Ione
City gorged with dreams: Surrealism
and documentary photography in interwar Paris by Ian Walker
Reviewed By Susan Taylor
What is it to be human? (debate)
and
What is it to be Human? What Science can and cannot tell us
by Kenan Malik
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Body and World by Samuel
Todes
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Creativity & Cognition
4: Processes and Artefacts:
Art, Technology and Science (conference)
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
December 2001
Metaphors of Memory: A history
of ideas about the mind
By Douwe Draaisma
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
The Liberating Power of Symbols:
Philosophical Essays and
The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays
By Jürgen Habermas
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Pure Immanence: Essays on
A Life By Gilles Deleuze
Reviewed by Patricia Pisters
Beyond Our Control? By
Stuart Biegel
Reviewed by Curtis E.A. Karnow
Music and Memory: An Introduction
By Bob Snyder
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Practical WAP By Chris Bennett
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
Vincent Van Gogh: Chemicals,
Crisis, and Creativity
By Wilfred N. Arnold
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Le Corbusier in America:
Travels in the Land of the Timid
By Mardges Bacon
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The Furniture of Gustav
Stickley
By Joseph J. Bavaro and Thomas L. Mossman and
Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Farms By Mark Alan Hewitt
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Blast: Vorticism 1914-1918
By Paul Edwards
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Design Connoisseur By Steven
Heller and Louise Fili and
Texts on Type By Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
George Nelson: The Design
of Modern Design By Stanley Abercrombie
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Utopian Entrepeneur By
Brenda Laurel
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
The Postdigital Membrane
By Robert Pepperell and Michael Punt
Reviewed by Dr Robert Mitchell
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Displaying the Marvelous:
Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and the Surrealist ExhibitionsBy Lewis
Kachur
Reviewed by David Gove Surman
ONÕ By Lloyd Gibson and
Mark Little
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
Duchamp, Love and Death,
Even By Juan Antonio Ram’rez
Reviewed by Kieran Lyons
The Constructivist
Laboratory: Experiments in Graphic Design By Alexander Lavrentiev
Reviewed by Kevin Murray
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October 2001
Eduardo Kac: Telepresence,
Biotelematics, Transgenic ArtEdited by Alexandra Kostic, Peter Tomaz
Dobrila
Reviewed by Paul Hertz
Art, Technology, Consciousness
mind@large Edited by Roy Ascott
Reviewed by Paul Hertz
Synaesthesia: The Strangest
Thing By John Harrison
Reviewed by Paul Hertz
Inhuman Reflections: Thinking
the Limits of the Human Edited by S. Brewster et al.
Reviewed by Curtis E.A. Karnow
Locus Solus Ð Site, Identity,
Technology and Contemporary ArtÕ contributors including Stallabrass,
Ratnam and van Mourik Broekman
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
Uncommon Ground: Architecture,
Technology and Topology by David Leatherbarrow
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
'Annunciation'
by Cesare Davolio
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
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September 2001
The Science of Illusions
by Jacques Ninio.
Reviewed by David Topper
Material Legacies: Bamboo
Edited by Enrique Martinez and Marco Steinberg
Reviewed by Kevin Murray
Visualizations: the Nature
Book of Art and Science By Martin Kemp
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
How to Build a Mind:
Toward Machines with Imagination by Igor Aleksander
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Practices of Looking:
An Introduction to Visual Culture by Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
How to Build a Mind: Toward
Machines with Imagination by Igor Aleksander
Reviewed by Curtis Karnow
The Shattered Self: The
End of Natural Evolution by Pierre Baldi
Reviewed by Curtis Karnow
Meaning in Technology
by Arnold Pacey
Reviewed by Elisa Giaccardi
Constructivism Laboratory
by A. Lavretiev
Reviewed by Ekaterina Lavrentieva
An Aesthetics from
Below and Aesthetics from Above - Quantitative Way of Rrapproachement
by Y.N. Rags
Reviewed by Alexander P.Mentyukov
The Geometry of Multiple
Images by Oliver Faugeras and Quang-Tuan Luong
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
I Levitate. What Next
Edited by Aleksandra Kosti
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
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August 2001
The Language of New Media
by Lev Manovich.
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Ars Electronica Facing the
Future Edited by Timothy Druckrey with Ars Electronica.
Reviewed by Stephen Wilson
Cosmic Evolution:
The Rise of Complexity in Nature By Eric J. Chaisson
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Infowar. Ars electronica 98.
Edited by Gerfried Stocker & Christine Schšpf
Reviewed by Frieder Nake
Digital Book Design and
Publishing by Douglas Holleley
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Why Art Cannot Be Taught:
A Handbook for Art Students by James Elkins
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
1000 Extra/Ordinary Objects
edited by Colors Magazine
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Eadweard Muybridge: The
Father of the Motion Picture by Gordon Hendricks
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Jane Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite
Model of Beauty by Debra N. Mancoff
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Victor Schreckengost
and 20th-Century Design by Henry Adams
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism
in Paris 1918-1925 by Carol Eliel
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The Postdigital Membrane:
Imagination, Technology and Desire by Robert Pepperell and Michael
Punt
Reviewed by Cliff Pickover
Spacefaring: The Human
Dimension by Albert A. Harrison
Reviewed by Cliff Pickover
July 2001
Carl Sagan's Cosmic
Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective By Carl Sagan
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Harry Partch: An Anthology
of Critical Perspectives Edited by David Dunn
Reviewed by Robert Coburn
Ptolemy's Geography: An
Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters By J. Lennart Berggren
and Alexander Jones
Reviewed by David Topper
June 2001
New Wombs: Electronic Bodies and Architectural Disorders By Maria Luisa Palumbo
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Art and Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Pierre Francastel
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth behind the Masterpieces by Philip Steadman
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Structure in Science and Art Edited by Wendy Pullan & Harshad Bhadeshia
Reviewed by David Topper
The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art By Jonathan Gilmore
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Whole Earth Review
Reviewed by Michael Mosher
DIGITAL DESIGN: New Frontiers for the Objects By Paolo Martegani and Riccardo Montenegro
Reviewed by Michael Mosher
Icons of Architecture: The 20th Century Edited by Sabine Thiel-Siling
Icons of Photography: The 20th Century
Edited by Peter Stepan
Icons of Design: The 20th Century
Edited by Volker Albus, et al.
Reviewed by Roy Behrens
John Sloan on Drawing and Painting: Gist of Art By John Sloan
Reviewed by Roy Behrens
Camouflage Simplified By Eric Sloane
Reviewed by Roy Behrens
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May 2001
Stargazing: Astronomy without a Telescope by Patrick Moore
Reviewed by David Topper
The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture by Karen Jacobs
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Multimedia, From Wagner To Virtual Reality Edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan
Reviewed by Annick Bureaud
Morphes by Vyacheslav Koleichuk by Linnik Yu
Reviewed by E.V. Sintzov
The Mystery of Theatre Space. Lectures on Scenography by J. Svoboda
Reviewed by E.V. Sintzov
Semiotics of Culture and Art. A Trial of Encyclopaedia. Parts 1 and 2 by S.T. Machlina
Reviewed by S.V.Sintzova
The Autobiographical Lectures of Some Prominent Art Educators Edited by Ralph Raunft
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Graphic Design Timeline: A Century of Design Milestones by Steven Heller and Elinor Pettit
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Art Is Work: Graphic Design, Interiors, Objects, and Illustrations by Milton Glaser
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan by David Van Zanten
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The Hole in My Vision: An Artist's View of His Own Macular Degeneration by Lee Allen
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
1001 Curious Things: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and Native American Art by Kate C. Duncan
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design by Steven Heller and Mirko Illic
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
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April 2001
Takahiko Iimura - Retrospective de films et de video SEEING catalogue (in French and Japanese) Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume 1999.
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
Robosapiens: Evolution of a New Species by Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica 1998.
Reviewed by Frieder Nake
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March 2001
Marcel Duchamp by Dawn Ades, Neil Cox and David Hopkins.
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Reminiscences on Scriabin by L.L.Sabaneyev.
Reviewed by Irina L.Vanechkina and Bulat M.Galeyev
Ether Music and the Man who Lived 20th Century Russia by Masami Takeuchi.
and
Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage by Albert Glinsky
Reviewed by Irina L.Vanechkina
Music in Unsounding Realms Conference book, Nauka, Moscow.
Reviewed by Eugeny V. Sintzov
Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East & WestLisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Transatlantic Edition of the journal of the German Council on Foreign
Relations
Reviewed by Frieder Nake
Kulturchronik, issues 2 & 3 / 2000:
News and Views from the Federal Republic of Germany
Reviewed by Frieder Nake
The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images through History Edited by Bruce Stephenson, Marvin Bolt, and Anna Felicity Friedman
Reviewed by David Topper
The End of Books-or Books Without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives By J. Yellowlees Douglas
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
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February 2001
Russian Artists in Exile. Reference Book (1917-1939)
by Leikind O.L., Makhrov K.W., Severjukhin D.Y.
Reviewed by Bulat M. Galeyev
Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet edited by Ken Goldberg
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
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American Monster by Paul Semonin
Reviewed by George Gessert
Takahiko Iimura - Film et VidŽo
by Daniel Charles
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
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January 2001
Descartes and the Possibility of Science
by Peter A. Schouls
Reviewed by David Topper
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts by Douglas Kahn
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism by John Gage
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
What is Life? by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Observing the Moon: The Modern Astronomer's Guide by Gerald North
Reviewed by David Topper
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December 2000
Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent
by Constance Martin
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Fonts & Logos: Font Analysis, Logotype Design, Typography, Type Comparison, and History
by Doyald Young
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption
by Steven Heller
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Turn-of-the-Century Viennese Patterns and Designs
by Koloman Moser
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The Tulip
by Anna Pavord
Reviewed by George Gessert
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November 2000
The Internet: A Writer's Guide by Jane Dorner
Reviewed by Nisar Keshvani
The Discovery of Pictorial Composition:
Theories of Visual Order in Painting, 1400-1800
by Thomas Puttfarken
Reviewed by David Topper
Children Draw Music I. Vanechkina and I. Trofimova
Reviewed by Istv‡n Hargittai
Eduardo Kac: Teleporting an Unknown State
an anthology
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound
An Introduction to Psychoacoustics
edited by Perry R. Cook
Reviewed by Paul Hertz
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October 2000
Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy by Francis Ames-Lewis
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Ars Electronica: Facing the Future edited by Timothy Druckrey
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet by Ken Goldberg
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
From Handel to Hendrix: The Composer in the Public Sphere by Michael Chanan
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Journal Review: Digital Creativity edited by Colin Beardon and Lone Malmborg
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
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September 2000
Memory of Images by Aleksandra Manczak
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
Inner Vision, An Exploration of Art and the Brain by Semir Zeki
Reviewed by Jennifer McMahon
Inner Vision, An Exploration of Art and the Brain by Semir Zeki
Reviewed by George K. Shortess
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August 2000
Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change edited by Vivian Sobchack
Reviewed by Sean Cubitt
Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century by Stanford Anderson
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture by Jonathan Crary
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Sex Appeal: The Art of Allure in Graphic and Advertising Design edited by Steven Heller
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Lives of the Great 20th-Century Artists by Edward Lucie-Smith
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Theo Van Gogh 1857-1891 by Chris Tsolwijk and Richard Thomson
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
New Media in Late 20th-Century Art by Michael Rush
Reviewed by Kevin Murray
Russian Artists in Exile. Reference Book (1917-1939) by Leikind O.L., Makhrov K.W., Severjukhin D.Y.
Reviewed by Bulat M. Galeyev
Aesthetics from Below and Aesthetics from Above - Quantitative Way of Reapproachement by Yury Nikolaevich Rags
Reviewed by Alexander P. Mentyukov
Children Draw Music by I.Vanechkina, I.Trofimova
Reviewed by B.Galeyev
Cryptorunes, Codes and Secret Writing by Clifford A. Pickover
Reviewed by Curtis Karnow
Guy Debord by Anselm Jappe
Reviewed by Molly Cox
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July 2000
Strange and Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts edited by Siän Ede
Reviewed by Jacques Mandelbrojt
Contemporary African Art by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Reviewed by Mike Mosher
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