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If/Then: Design Implications of New Media, Issue 0.1: Play»rank: 1635393from: Netherlands Design Institute
: :Under the editorship of design and media critic Janet Abrams, the new journal 'If/Then' investigates the design implications of new media technologies as these are expressed in everyday material culture. Rather than crusading about the technological nirvana to come, the contributors to 'If/Then' explore the scenarios in which design plays a role and the products, inter-faces, and experiences that designers can create in those circumstances. Published by the Netherlands Design Institute (NDI), this first issue will present details from their fifth Doors of Perception conference -- a conference that has become legendary as 'the forum for designers and digerati, ' according to Wired magazine. The most recent conference considered the theme of ... |
Open 11: Hybrid Space»rank: 1517918by: Howard Rheingold, Saskia Sassen, Frans Vogelaar, Elizabeth Sikiardi, Noortje Marres, Koen Brams, Dirk Pultau, Marion Hamm, Kristina Andersen, Ari Altena, Daniel Van Der Velden, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Max Bruinsma
: :Laptops in the park, Bluetooth alerts at the bar, microchips under the dog's skin: wireless technologies like WiFi, GPS, and RFID are changing public space. The world is increasingly traversed by an electronic infrastructure and overlaid with the invisible lines of swiftly evolving alternative cultural and social domains. The traditional physical and social public domain is being supplemented by zones, places and subcultures that transcend the local to interlink with the translocal and the global. Open 11: Hybrid Space asks, 'How can individuals and groups appropriate, liberate, or sculpt this hybrid, seemingly flexible space? Where is the 'public' now, and whose spatial, cultural and political strategies will shape it?' |
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BEELD TEGEN BEELD: WILD PLAKKEN [ Max Bruinsma, Lies Ros, Rob Schroder, Pauline Terreehorst and Gerard de Vries ]»rank: 1517918by: Max Bruinsma, Lies Ros, Rob Schroder, Pauline Terreehorst, Gerard de Vries
: :Laptops in the park, Bluetooth alerts at the bar, microchips under the dog's skin: wireless technologies like WiFi, GPS, and RFID are changing public space. The world is increasingly traversed by an electronic infrastructure and overlaid with the invisible lines of swiftly evolving alternative cultural and social domains. The traditional physical and social public domain is being supplemented by zones, places and subcultures that transcend the local to interlink with the translocal and the global. Open 11: Hybrid Space asks, 'How can individuals and groups appropriate, liberate, or sculpt this hybrid, seemingly flexible space? Where is the 'public' now, and whose spatial, cultural and political strategies will shape it?' |
Deep Sites: Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Web Design»rank: 1834735by: Max Bruinsma
: :The proliferation of books on web design has buried the many critical issues that have emerged over the last two or three years. New technologies and applications, along with ever-more-sophisticated compression techniques and broadband services, have accelerated the growth of the web and the number of its users - and given rise to a number of crucial issues. Now, for the first time, comes an intelligent book on the defining principles of cutting-edge web design. Deep Sites will lead a large audience directly to the key practitioners and to the underlying principles that make their work so significant. The book is organized by critical areas of web design: - Interface It took ... |
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Hans Van Houwelingen Vs. Public Art»rank: 3762673by: Bram Kempers, Sjoukje van der Meulen, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Hans van Houwelingen
: :Hans van Houwelingen is known for his versatile and critical look at art in public space, public life, and cultural politics. This monograph documents more than 20 of his works, and provides a careful analysis of the contexts from which they were derived. A selection of critical texts by the artist summarizes his decade-long provocative and inquisitive practice. |
Open 10: (In)tolerance»rank: 3688121by: Jeroen Boomgaard, Max Bruinsma
: :Open is a notebook on art and the public domain, published twice a year. Open considers the interaction between art, commissioner, place and public in relation to developments within new media, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and spatial planning. Open adopts a thematic approach for its content. Beyond essays, interviews and columns, it includes book reviews, project documentation, artists' contributions and photographic essays. Open does not treat art as an isolated phenomenon, but as a component of wider-ranging creative, political and socio-cultural developments. Open is intended for everyone with an interest in contemporary art and the state of contemporary public space. Open 10 tackles (in)tolerance. |
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Visual Power: Business (Visual Power)»rank: 2686647by: Mieke Gerritzen, Henk Oosterling, Geert Lovink, Max Bruinsma
: :Open is a notebook on art and the public domain, published twice a year. Open considers the interaction between art, commissioner, place and public in relation to developments within new media, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and spatial planning. Open adopts a thematic approach for its content. Beyond essays, interviews and columns, it includes book reviews, project documentation, artists' contributions and photographic essays. Open does not treat art as an isolated phenomenon, but as a component of wider-ranging creative, political and socio-cultural developments. Open is intended for everyone with an interest in contemporary art and the state of contemporary public space. Open 10 tackles (in)tolerance. |
Visual Power: News (Visual Power)»rank: 3075458by: Mieke Gerritzen, Henk Oosterling, Geert Lovink, Max Bruinsma
: :Open is a notebook on art and the public domain, published twice a year. Open considers the interaction between art, commissioner, place and public in relation to developments within new media, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and spatial planning. Open adopts a thematic approach for its content. Beyond essays, interviews and columns, it includes book reviews, project documentation, artists' contributions and photographic essays. Open does not treat art as an isolated phenomenon, but as a component of wider-ranging creative, political and socio-cultural developments. Open is intended for everyone with an interest in contemporary art and the state of contemporary public space. Open 10 tackles (in)tolerance. |
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Visual Power: Sex (Visual Power)»rank: 2987319by: Mieke Gerritzen, Henk Oosterling, Geert Lovink, Max Bruinsma
: :Open is a notebook on art and the public domain, published twice a year. Open considers the interaction between art, commissioner, place and public in relation to developments within new media, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and spatial planning. Open adopts a thematic approach for its content. Beyond essays, interviews and columns, it includes book reviews, project documentation, artists' contributions and photographic essays. Open does not treat art as an isolated phenomenon, but as a component of wider-ranging creative, political and socio-cultural developments. Open is intended for everyone with an interest in contemporary art and the state of contemporary public space. Open 10 tackles (in)tolerance. |
Benzin:Young Swiss Graphic Design [Lars Muller Publishers]»rank: 3210181by: Max Bruinsma, Meret Ernst, Raphael Urweider, Ruedi Widmer
: :Michel Fries and Thomas Bruggisser voyage through Switzerland in search of a new generation of young Swiss graphic designers. What they find is a Swiss design scene as 'hip' as anything in London or Berlin. Influenced by the famous 'Swiss School' of the 1950s and 60s, young Swiss designers today still hold concept and structure as functional beliefs, allowing artistic freedom in counterbalance to the service aspects of design. Beautifully designed by the editors, Benzin is itself a statement on these theoretical questions. It includes detailed portrayals of twelve selected studios and images from 36 other designers making it a great sourcebook for anyone interested in graphic design today. |