Open Access: 11th FILE Festival in Sao Paulo
Between July 27th and August 29th, 2010, the eleventh edition of the FILE festival is taking place in Sao Paulo (Brazil). Pau Waelder offers us an engaging review of the work showcased.
conference, digital, festival, game culture, installation, interactive, Locative Media, media art, mobile art, multi-user, participation, software, sound, theory, urban, video, wireless
 Publishing and the Digital Revolution
From Vooks to ebooks, from the iPad to the Google settlement, and from print-on-demand to new styles of writing, Edward Picot attempts to analyse the effects of the digital revolution on the publishing industry, and to make some educated guesses about how things may develop in the next few years.
article, books, context, critical, cyberculture, digital, distributed creativity, journalism, knowledge, language, networked, publication
 Ambient Information Systems
Ambient Information Systems by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel is a hardback book that presents a comprehensive and in-depth, historical context by ambient.tv (Luksch and her collaborators) from during the last decade. It's a fascinating pleasure to read and overwhelming to review, buy it and enjoy.
activism, aesthetic, agency, books, Code Art, collaboration, collective, context, critical, digital, hactivism, Internet Art, interplay, intervention, poetic, publication, social, street, video, web art
 Sprint As Process
Helen Varley Jamieson's account of working collaboratively in Madrid to rebuild the Eclectic Tech Carnival's web site. On a 'sprint', with 5 women coming together for a week, physically & remotely. Using Floss Manuals' methodologies and CiviCRM, a free, libre and open source software and Drupal.
activism, collaboration, collective, community, conference, copyleft, creative commons, cyberfeminism, DIY, event, feminism, festival, free code, free software, hacking, hactivism, independent, participation, Political, social, theory
 The Status Project: Data-Mining Our Identities.
In this two part interview Marc Garrett discusses with Heath Bunting about his current work within two distinctive areas of digital culture and sport-art, starting with The Status Project, which studies the construction of our 'official identities'.
abstract, activism, agency, archive, behaviour, conceptual, critical, cyberculture, database, hacking, hactivism, intervention, Legal, life hacking, media art, networked, resource, social, software art
 Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom. Part 4/4
Alternative Knowledge. From September 2008 - June 2010, Ellie Harrison undertook a Leverhulme Scholarship on the Master of Fine Art programme at Glasgow School of Art. The thesis published below forms one of the major outcomes of her research during this period. This is part four of four.
activism, aesthetic, critical, environmental, Political, social, theory
 You Are Not A Gadget
Rob Myers reviews Jaron Lanier's book You Are Not A Gadget. A timely polemic, a cry of the soul in an increasingly soulless Web 2.0 world. "Necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times.
critical, cyberculture, publication
 An Interview with Patrick Lichty Part 1
Marc Garrett interviews Patrick Lichty, renowned conceptually-based artist, writer, curator and activist. He has exhibited internationally since 1990. This two part interview includes discussion about his work with The Yes Men, other art projects such as Sprawl, 8 Bits or Less, other works, curation, ideas about culture and life.
activism, conceptual, critical, curation, cyberculture, hactivism, independent, installation, Internet Art, interplay, intervention, interview, media art, networked, psychogeography, social