A down-to-earth, entertaining and accessible companion book for the London roamer celebrating the diverse voices of London's art world, past and present

Neoliberalism has taken autonomous professional values and labour firmly in its grasp. Traditional forms of employment are replaced with post-Fordist conditions in which work has become freelance, flexible, mobile, project-based, hybrid and temporary. This way of working is not new to artists. They have seen themselves confronted with these precarious conditions since many years. Mobile Autonomy detects what modes of economy and different innovative working modalities artists and other artist...

In een wereld van snel groeiende digitale netwerken zijn in het domein van de mediatheorie, die de invloed van deze cultuurvormen bestudeert, de implicaties van de esthetische filosofie vergaand verwaarloosd. Vito Campanelli verkent de netwerkvormen vanuit de optiek van de esthetica en levert daarmee een open uitnodiging om de inherente beperkingen van het huidige debat over de digitale cultuur te overstijgen.Het web is het medium dat tussen de nieuwe media en de maatschappij in staat en meer...

De publicatie Duet for Cannibals: Forms of Cultural Appropriation is gebaseerd op een film- en discussieprogramma in het Tropentheater te Amsterdam met werk van Nederlandse en internationale kunstenaars gecombineerd met hoogtepunten uit de filmcollectie van het Tropenmuseum.Het film-en discussie programma Duet for Cannibals (vernoemd naar de film van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en critica Susan Sontag uit 1969) stelt vraagstukken aan de orde over etnografie en antropologie in de hedendaagse ku...

Artist residencies provide space, time, and concentration for making art, doing research and for reflection. Residencies are crucial nodes in international circulation and career development, but also invaluable infrastructures for critical thinking and artistic experimentation, cross-cultural collaboration, interdisciplinary knowledge production, and site-specific research. The globalization process and the demands of the creative economy have had an impact on artist residencies. Ecological ...

'Teaching Objects' is a journey through art and culture. Jeroen Lutters takes us to see a number of artworks that give new insights into the foundations of twenty-first century civilisation and humanity. In this highly personal ans passionate account, he discusses his individual choice of great works – works that not only reflect the history of Western culture, but also continue to be a source of inspiration and meaning.

What is computational art? How does it involve us in unprecedented aesthetic relationships, making us part of works and even transfor­ming them? This book looks at how computation causes an ontolo­gical shift that turns dynamics, causality, and cognition into central components of art, artistic practices, and aesthetics. Computational art is more conceptual than perceptual; it is performative, experien­tial, situated, experimental, creative, and intersubjective. Computa­tional art is unst...

This thorough study on the work of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin exposes - in Benjamin’s own metaphor - the ‘dwarf of theology’ hidden in the machinery of his work, his own form of ‘historical materialism’. In doing so it unearths and explains his language theory, his art theory, his most cryptic baroque book, his philosophy of history, and, last but not least, his famous labyrinthine unfinished opus magnum on Paris, The Arcades project (the first philosophical book ...

This edited volume offers an in-depth exploration of Dutch media art from 1985 onwards from many different perspectives. Through early access to the Internet, state subsidies and dedicated institutions and festivals, a vivid counter-cultural environment and a cosmopolitan artistic and intellectual scene the Netherlands hold a unique position in regards to the development of media art.

Introduced by four chapters that retrace the main events and actors (governmental institutions, festivals an...