Tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today’s digital newsletters and social media threads.
An interview with women at the forefront of art and technology.
Liquid damage on publication.
Examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism.
Returns to Satoshi Nakamoto’s canonical text on a peer-to-peer electronic cash system as a Rosetta Stone that reveals the far-reaching implications of decentralisation.
Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice.
Features 16 commissioned contributions from scholars, arts journalists and bloggers, as well as a small selection of innovative critical practice, sharing perspectives on relevant historical, theoretical and political contexts influencing the development of the discipline, as well as specific aspects of the contemporary practices and genres of theatre criticism.
A virtual platform on which shares of companies dealing with problems are floated.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
This intercative performance conference offers to crisis-struck governments, political parties and the powers that be, solutions to pacify their citizens' discontent, to clear up all misunderstandings and to stop citizens taking their rights into their own hands.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
This intercative performance conference offers to crisis-struck governments, political parties and the powers that be, solutions to pacify their citizens' discontent, to clear up all misunderstandings and to stop citizens taking their rights into their own hands.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this comics-illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Authors offer ways to fight today’s pervasive digital surveillance — the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects.
The first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.
Groys explores art in the age of the thingless medium, the internet. He claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura, digital production generates aura without objects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present.
Performing Borders: A Study Room Guide on physical and conceptual borders within Live Art.
Lonergan argues that social media is itself a performance space, analysing how it's used by both theatres and audiences and also in connection with each other.
Through detailed case-studies on the work of key international theatre companies such as the Elevator Repair Service and The Mission Business, Blake explores how the digital is providing new scope for how we think about the theatre, as well as how the theatre in turn is challenging how we might relate to the digital.
Includes:
Dual performance to Skype camera
Blood, 2013 (1:47); Block, 2013 (1:48); Lançar- to throw 2013 (0:39); Alinhar – to Align, 2013 (0:58); Cloud try 3, 2013 (0:51); Red line, 2015 (0:50); A short story, 2015 (1:04); Annunciation 1 & 2, 2015 (2:08)
Dual performance to the camera
Skull-line, cranial suture, 2014 (0:46); Measuring the room, 2014 (1:27); Tables, 2015 (2:05); To do with you, 2016 (2:20); Push, 2011 (1:25); Dictionario (excerpt), 2011; And –And, 2016 (3:44)
In 2011, Brian Lobel played a brutal game of friendship maintenance: over 5 days in cafés in both London and Kuopio, Finland, Brian gave strangers one minute to decide which of his 1300 Facebook friends to keep or delete. Indluces the performance script, reflective essays, interviews and angry emails.
This article speculates about the new kinds of historical information that performance scholars may be able to preserve as a result of recent innovations in web archiving.
A collection of lengthy interviews with indie-media luminaries Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poses questions over the nature of action, identity and the self in the relationship with media forms.
A critical exploration of both the effects and affects that the Internet has had on contemporary artistic practices. Contributors: Ed Halter, Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rhame, Sophia Al-Maria, Sam Ashby, Jeremy Bailey, Stephanie Bailey, Erika Balsom, Zach Blas, James Bridle, Jennifer Chan, Tyler Coburn, Michael Connor, Model Court, Jesse Darling, Brian Droitcour, Constant Dullaart, Gene McHugh, Omar Kholeif, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jon Rafman, James Richards, Basak Senova, Jamin Shovlim, Brad Troemel.
Puts the field of Information Studies into critical conversation with studies of gender, sexuality, race and technology, with writings from a broad range of renowned scholars.
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, such as cutting and pasting, databasing, identity ciphering, and programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? As Goldsmith shows, the Internet and digital environment present writers with new opportunities to rethink creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language.
Invitation and instructions to participate in Performing Wikipedia project, aiming to expand and improve material relating to Live Art and performance online
Collaboration between Áine Phillips and film-maker Rachel Davies. Large scale collaborative project commemorating lost women and girls. A week long workshop process generates a collection of sculptural costumes and culminates in a runway/catwalk performance dedicated to each lost girl represented. Supported by Culture Ireland, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Foundation, Live Art Development Agency and British Council. Part of Louder Than Bombs – Art, Acton and Activism Project.
Selected Works of Poysha Kakil, featuring the documentary film Knitting Iron.
Ai Weiwei, edited and translated by Lee Ambrozy, Ai Weiwei’s Blog, 2006-2009. This book offers a collection of Ai’s online writings translated into English – the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language.
Programme for How We Became Metadata at University of Westminster’s 309 Regent Street gallery.
This intercative performance conference offers to crisis-struck governments, political parties and the powers that be, solutions to pacify their citizens' discontent, to clear up all misunderstandings and to stop citizens taking their rights into their own hands.
Incluedes the Housing Questionnaire (2007), the Intelectual Property Questionnaire and the Civic Questionnaire.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
This intercative performance conference offers to crisis-struck governments, political parties and the powers that be, solutions to pacify their citizens' discontent, to clear up all misunderstandings and to stop citizens taking their rights into their own hands.
Includes short extracts and the video of the entire show.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
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Leading international artists, writers and curators here examine specific examples of public installations and dramatic spaces that are linked to the Internet with the aim of integrating the viewer into the artwork
Projects a critical context around the Season of Media Arts in London March 2006 and provides another discursive dimension to the events of October 2005’s Open Season.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Catalogue and study on cultural rebellion in Syria. Language: English and Arabic
Booklets documenting visual artist's internet project. From Environmental Art/Degreeshow 2001
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. This publication explores some of the cultural genealogies and past parallels of these styles and subcultures, drawing from transgressive styles of 60s libertinism and conservative movements, to make the case for a rejection of the perpetual cultural turn.
Collected commentary pieces.