Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).
Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN-13: 978-1623567453, English, 376 pages, 2013, USA
More than a decade after his best seller “The Language of New Media”, and five years after he started to post drafts on mailing lists, the new Manovich book is finally →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262518284, 192 pag, 2013, English
The fascination with “big data” – usually referring to a huge quantity of digital data and an attendant piece of powerful software that trawls it looking for new correlations – is →
Deep in the core of the Kindle (Amazon’s e-book reader) terms and conditions there is one clear sentence concerning the ownership of digital content: “Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider”. This means that every →
Digital devices support portable literature at various levels, but this mostly involves bestsellers and popular literature, most of the time excluding poetry. The artwork Autonomous Parapoetic Device (APxD mkII) by Adam Parrish is a portable machine that generates poetry, and →