Digital, video and new media arts Books
3DTotal Publishing Ltd The Art Journey of Lord Gris
Book SynopsisIllustrator and character designer Lord Gris takes us on a guided tour of her world, where her anime-style characters exude emotion, attitude, mystery, and beauty that can be both bizarre and fragile. Her characters are already appreciated by over 750K followers on Instagram, and have garnered 1.5M likes on TikTok. A flair for connecting with her fans, and being open about the ups and downs of being an artist, has resulted in a highly engaged and enthusiastic fan base. Having already shared videos showing her at work, including her popular Skillshare tutorial, Lord Gris is perfectly positioned to create this beautifully produced book. 3dtotal Publishing excels at helping artists to communicate both the motivations behind their unique creativity, and the technical tips and tricks they use. Therefore, step-by-step tutorials specially commissioned for the book are accompanied by galleries of Lord Gris’s fan favourites, unseen gems, and brand new and exclusive pieces. With a love for digital art using Procreate, acrylics on MDF board, and artist-staple pens and pencils, she shares a host of skills and techniques to offer something new to every artist.
£999.99
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Art Of Battletoads
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£999.99
3DTotal Publishing Ltd Digital Painting in Procreate: Landscapes & Plein
Book SynopsisUnleash the creative power of Procreate to bring outdoor scenes to life on your iPad, from thumbnail designs to final images. With an introduction by BAFTA-award-winning art director, Mike McCain.In this book for newcomers to the software as well as more accomplished users, several renowned and experienced designers demonstrate plein air painting, sharing not only their professional tips and tricks, but also how the traditional painting process translates to Procreate.You will become fluent in using Procreate for all stages of outdoor painting - capturing the spirit and essence of a landscape, subject, or building by incorporating natural light, color, and movement into your works. The thorough Getting Started section spotlights the specific Procreate tools, such as Brushes, Layers, and Adjustments, that bring your paintings to life. Perfecting color and nuance of sky, land, and human subjects outdoors is vital, and the Quick Tips section lets you quickly locate and manipulate the tools you need.Take the opportunity to observe and practice the techniques as part of a real-world workflow, as professional artists demonstrate in seven step-by-step Projects how to use Procreate’s tools to successfully evolve a plein-air painting from initial idea to final masterpiece. Whether or not you have used Procreate before, A Guide to Digital Painting in Procreate: Landscapes & Plein Air ensures your passion for outdoor painting can be fully realized on the iPad screen.
£24.30
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Halo Encyclopedia
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£38.39
Intellect Analyzing NES Music
Book SynopsisFaced with severe technological constraints on system memory, composers of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sought ways to disguise repetition in music that repeats extensively. Their efforts gave rise to a set of compositional techniques for creating the illusion of variety. This book distills these techniques into a theory of harmony and form for the analysis of NES music. It then uses this theory to analyze five landmark scores of the NES era: Super Mario Bros., Dragon Warrior, Metroid, Mega Man 2, and Silver Surfer. Both theory and analysis are scaffolded by a detailed description of the NES hardware and its attendant constraints, highlighting the ever-evolving dialogue between technology, commercial demand, and artistic sensibility that characterizes video game music of the 1980s and 1990s.
£89.96
MIT Press Ltd Performing Image The MIT Press
Book SynopsisAn examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era.In Performing Image, Isobel Harbison 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. Over this period, artists have used a variety of DIY modes of self-imaging and circulation—from home video to social media—suggesting how and why Western subjects might seek alternative platforms for self-expression and self-representation. In the course of her argument, Harbison offers close analyses of works by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Yvonne Rainer, Mark Leckey, Wu Tsang, and Martine Syms.Harbison argues that while we produce images, images also produce us—those that we take and share, those that we see and assimi
£999.99
Taylor & Francis Studio Television Production and Directing
Book SynopsisThis updated third edition of Studio Television Production and Directing introduces readers to the basic fundamentals of studio and control room production.Accessible and focused, readers of this updated third edition will learn about essential studio and control room terminology and the common technology package. This book is your back-to-the-basics guide to common technologyincluding principles of directing, assistant directing, technical directing, playback, audio ops, basic studio lighting, an introduction to set design, camera ops, floor directing, story types (VO, VO/SOT, PKG), basic engineering, and more.Whether an established professional or a student, this book provides readers with the technical expertise to successfully coordinate live or recorded multicamera production.In this new edition, author Andrew Hicks Utterback offers an expanded glossary and new material on visualization walls, alternative camera mounts, basic engineering, and news naTrade Review"Updated with the latest digital technologies, terms, and workflows, Studio Television Production and Directing provides clear explanations and images of professional television studio environments. From camera and audio to producing and directing, Utterback prepares students for working in the industry by showing what to expect, and what is expected of them, in the studio and control room." – Dr. Michael Grabowski, Manhattan CollegeTable of ContentsDedicationsAcknowledgements Overview of Equipment and Positions: The Studio and the Control Room Audio Technical Directing Lighting and Sets Studio Cameras & Floor Directing Newsroom Computer Systems, Prompter, Graphics, Playback, Remotes, Engineering Rundowns, Scripts, Video Clip Information Assistant Directing and Directing Glossary
£37.99
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Grid Matrix Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetics
Book SynopsisShaping everyday landscapes from cities to factories, the grid - an arrangement of individual elements along perpendicular lines - has been a basic structure of modern life. This book traces the relationship of these different yet intertwined methods of organizing the visual world and how we represent it in art.
£13.33
New Academia Publishing/ The Spring Exits and Entrances Interviews with Seven Who
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£26.60
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Introduction to Global Media for the
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough introduction to the field of global media today. The book presents the key changes taking place as the global media landscape evolves, and the main theories of the field, that explain these developments.Tracing, first, the formative development of an international and global media landscape throughout the 20th century from the telegraph, television and film export, and transnational television to the Internet, the book then focuses on developments in the 21st century. This includes: the digitization of the global media and communications sector; the popularization of the Internet and digital infrastructure such as the smartphone and platforms; the emergence of global online media and services; the production and distribution of digital media content; and the exploitation of user data. Case studies illustrate key developments throughout the book.The book shows how the field is characterized by a contTrade ReviewWith this book, Ole J. Mjøs makes a vital contribution to global media studies, by drawing attention to continuity as well as change in the rise of digital platforms and social media. His judicious use of case studies and breadth of scholarship make it clear that we need to apprehend the recent past in global media scholarship in order to better understand current trends. * Terry Flew, Professor of Digital Communication and Culture, The University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Understanding Global Media (Bloomsbury, 2018) *This rigorous, illuminating book both traces the historical development of the international and global media landscape, as well as helps us to make sense of this development by discussing key theoretical traditions. Ole J. Mjøs' accessible writing style and impressive knowledge of the field make this an indispensable guide for anyone interested in global media. * Thomas Poell, Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and co-author of The Platform Society (2018) and Platforms and Cultural Production (2021) *This richly detailed text on global media in the digital age by Ole J. Mjøs, with its compelling case studies, is an extremely useful aid for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers. Highly recommended. * Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, and author of International Communication: Continuity and Change (3rd edition 2019). *Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgement Case Studies List of Tables 1. Introduction Part I: Key Developments: Industry, Infrastructure, Content, and Audiences 2. The Emergence of a Global Media and Communications Landscape: From the Telegraph to the Internet 3. The Popularization and Consolidation of the Global Online Environment: The Internet, Social Media, and Search Engines 4. Media Companies, Content and Branding in the Global Digital Age: Platforms, Distribution, and Production Part II: Key Theoretical Traditions: The Continuity of Themes and Concerns 5. The Role of Media and Communications in Development: Modernization, Progress, and Social Change 6. The Power of Media and Communications: Imperialism, Influence, and Domination 7. The Power of Media Audiences and Users: Empowerment and Autonomy 8. The Dimensions of Globalization in the Context of Media and Communications Index
£67.50
State University of New York Press Altons Paradox
Book SynopsisUses extensive archival research to explore the manifold contributions of foreign film workers to emerging film industries in Latin America from the 1930s to early 1940s.Alton''s Paradox builds upon extensive archival and primary research, but uses a single text as its point of departure-a 1934 article by the Hungarian American cinematographer John Alton in the Hollywood-published International Photographer. Writing from Argentina, Alton paradoxically argues of cine nacional, "The possibilities are enormous, but not until foreign technicians will take the matter in their hands and with foreign organization will there be local industry." Nicolas Poppe argues that Alton succinctly articulates a line of thought commonly held across Latin America during the early sound period but little explored by scholars: that foreign labor was pivotal to the rise of national film industries. In tracking this paradox from Hollywood to Mexico to Argentina and beyond, Poppe reconsiders a series of notions inextricably tied to traditional film historiography, including authorship, (dis)continuation, intermediality, labor, National Cinema, and transnationalism. Wide-angled views of national film industries complement close-up analyses of the work of José Mojica, Alex Phillips, Juan Orol, Ángel Mentasti, and Tito Davison.
£25.62
Duke University Press Poetic Operations
Book SynopsisIn Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed to perform specific tasks (like a recipe), she breaks them into their component parts, called operations. By focusing on these operations, cárdenas identifies how trans and gender-non-conforming artists, especially artists of color, rewrite algorithms to counter violence and develop strategies for liberation. In her analyses of Giuseppe Campuzano''s holographic art, Esdras Parra''s and Kai Cheng Thom''s poetry, Mattie Brice''s digital games, Janelle Monáe''s music videos, and her own artistic practice, cárdenas shows how algorithmic analysis provideTrade Review“In this beautifully written book, micha cárdenas directs us to look at how the algorithm, as analytic and praxis, holds the possibility of trans of color survival. Deftly moving across numerous geographies, texts, and fields of inquiry, Poetic Operations is a bold contribution to trans of color studies.” -- C. Riley Snorton, author of * Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity *“micha cárdenas’s powerful new work extends intersectionality as a mode for understanding the relationships between race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and other axes of power, oppression, and resistance. Doing important theoretical and analytical work in its analysis of trans of color media arts practice, Poetic Operations will be useful for those working in media studies, digital studies, trans studies, and art history, as well as anyone interested in interrogating power.” -- Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of * Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need *"Poetic Operations is arguably the first major academic work to deal with the subject matter in such detail. How cárdenas uses the term will likely become the standard by which other engagements with the term are measured.” -- Sofie Vlaad * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *“Importantly, this book models theory developed from and for trans of color existence and models how scholars must critically reflect on how our theories have ramifications for people’s lives. . . . Poetic Operations provides methods for analysis and design that invite exciting and innovative projects that engage in decolonial trans of color survival and celebration.” -- Shano (Hongyuan) Liang and Michael Anthony DeAnda * Lateral *“cárdenas explores digital media, speculative design and technology, performance and visual arts, coding, activism, theory, games, and poetry across the geographies of the Americas and beyond, along with a deep self-reflective engagement with her own practice-based projects. . . . Centering Black, Indigenous, Latinx trans and travesti voices, PoeticOperations offers critical approaches to deploy digital technologies for decolonial futures.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *"Poetic Operations is a clear, well-written, and creative first- and third-person account of trans of color existence in written, digital, and performed avenues of praxis. Ultimately, cárdenas provides a useful model of algorithms, exposing this tool as a survival method used by trans people for centuries and how it continues to prevent violence and provide safety and security for contemporary communities everywhere." -- Riana Slyter * Women's Studies in Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Algorithmic Analysis 1 1. Trans of Color Poetics 26 2. The Decolonial Cut 43 3. The Shift 72 4. The Experience of Shifting 96 5. The Stitch 129 Conclusion. Visionary Trans of Color Futures 167 Notes 179 Bibliography 203 Index 213
£63.75
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Rhythm Image
Book SynopsisMusic videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular culture; and they fuse and revise multiple frames of reference, from dance to high fashion to cult movies and television shows to Internet memes. Above all, music videos are laboratories for experimenting with new forms of audiovisual expression. The Rhythm Image explores all these dimensions. The book analyzes, in depth, recent music videos for artists ranging from pop superstar The Weeknd to independent women artists like FKA twigs and Dawn Richard. The music videos discussed in this book all treat the traditional themes of popular music: sex and romance, money and fame, and the lived experiences of race and gender. But they twist these themes in strange and unexpected ways, in order to reflect our entanglement with a digital world of social media, data gathering, and 24/7 demandsTrade ReviewA quarter-century back, MTV’s Amp showcased electronica videos, eerie creatures of beats-driven posthumanism. The show ended, but the videos multiplied, digital tinkering to visualize hip-hop, R&B, and new divas alongside EDM for stop-start viewing on YouTube. Steven Shaviro philosopher of speculative fiction, at last names this core category: the rhythm image. Gazing and auditing, applying theory as needed, he makes that tweak in the assemblage on your screen a frontier. The filmic nugget pulsates, in his cuts from micro to macro analysis, becoming a fundamental cultural reshaping—the visual groove as 21st century homeland. * Eric Weisbard, author of Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music *When is a book on music video not “just” a book on music video? When it deftly weaves descriptions of digital art-making with the ideas of Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant, Marshall McLuhan, and Vivian Sobchack to expand on Gilles Deluge’s film-philosophy and articulate a new regime of the image: the rhythm image. Through luxuriant close readings and invigorating exposition, Shaviro shows how contemporary music videos immerse viewers in the new temporal and affective relationship that organize digital media culture. A delight to read and to contemplate! * Caetlin Benson-Allott, Professor of English and Film & Media Studies, Georgetown University, USA *In recent years, the once denigrated and impure object of the music video has received more serious attention and nowhere more so than in Steven Shaviro’s ground-breaking work, The Rhythm Image. Combining close engagement with the audiovisual expressive properties of specific digital music videos with broader sociological and philosophical concerns, this book argues for the emergence of a new diagram of audiovisual expression based neither in movement nor pure temporality but in rhythm. While, on the one hand this book engages with Deleuze’s cinema books and through them a range of philosophical references from Kant to Whitehead, read in conjunction with contemporary accounts of post-cinema and digital media, at its core is an intense engagement with the contemporary music videos for artists including Massive Attack, FKA Twigs, Tierra Whack and Tkay Maidza that it engages with in loving detail. Ultimately it suggests that these music videos allow for the grasping of contemporary social transformations affecting race, gender, sexuality and mediated desires intensively via moments of audiovisual bliss. * Michael N. Goddard, Reader in Film and Screen Media, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface 1. The Rhythm Image 2. Post-Cinematic Articulations of Sound and Vision (Massive Attack) 3. Cyborg Avatars (Dawn Richard) 4. Pulses of Distraction (Tierra Whack) 5. Living With Time-Space Compression (Bonobo) 6. The Passion According to FKA twigs 7. Vanishing Voices (Moses Sumney) 8. Metamorphoses of a Severed Head (The Weeknd) 9. Submerged (Tkay Maidza) Afterword Books and Articles Cited Music and Videos Cited Index
£20.89
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Apex Legends: Pathfinder's Quest (lore Book)
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£30.39
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Art Of Skull And Bones
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£35.99
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Art of Dead Island 2
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£35.99
Penguin Random House Group Marvels SpiderMan 2 The Poster Collection
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£22.94
Distributed Art Publishers Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971
Book SynopsisThe overlooked yet vibrant history of Black participation in American film, from the beginning of cinema through the civil rights movement From the dawn of the medium onward, Black filmmakers have helped define American cinema. Black performers, producers and directors—Bert Williams, Oscar Micheaux, Herb Jeffries, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Ruby Dee and William Greaves, to name just a few—had a vast and resounding impact. Black film artists not only developed an enduring independent tradition but also transformed mainstream Hollywood, fueled and reflected sociopolitical movements, captured Black experience in all its robust complexity, and influenced generations to come. As harrowing as it is beautiful, this history of Black cinema and its legacy is often overlooked. Regeneration accompanies a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures exploring seven decades of Black participation in American cinema. Amplifying this underrepresented history in colorful and striking detail, the book features an in-depth curatorial essay and scholarly case-study texts on topics such as early Black independent filmmaking, Black spectatorship during the Jim Crow era and home movies as an essential form of Black self-representation. The volume also makes meaningful connections to the present through interviews with award-winning contemporary Black filmmakers Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins and Dawn Porter. An extensive filmography and chronology offer an essential resource for anyone interested in Black cinema, while images of contemporary visual artworks further illustrate the volume throughout.Trade ReviewThis one wins Oscars in multiple categories. -- Hamilton Cain * Oprah Daily *Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is jam packed with treasures and revelations … [An] astonishing, well-paced journey through seven-plus decades of movie history. -- Phyllis Tuchman * Brooklyn Rail *Comprised of erudite essays, illustrative case studies ... Simply outstanding. * Midwest Book Review *A sense of doubleness reverberates throughout the show as it continues to chart year after year of bigotry and resistance, institutional repression and artistic sovereignty, struggles that were literally embodied by performers working in old Hollywood and outside its cruelly restrictive gates. -- Manohla Dargis * New York Times *Evokes the pride of cultural acknowledgment and serves as a dismaying reminder of the pernicious effects of racism and discrimination over the decades. -- Mekeisha Madden * Financial Times *
£36.90
Atmosphere Press My Take on All 50 States
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£14.24
Primary Information Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold Commitment
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£15.20
Intellect Modelling International Collaborations in Art
Book SynopsisBased on over a decade of collective teaching, thisvolume explores the hybrid use of online and in-person collaboration as a means of offeringinternational experience to university-level artsstudents. Chapters articulate a collective learningbased on the experiences of the International ArtCollaborations Network (INTAC), Collective Bodygroup and related programs which the authors andcontributors have participated in as educators andstudents. Illustrated with photographs, screenshotsand student projects, the book inspires reflectionon teaching methodologies and student artmakingstrategies across cultures and languages.Pedagogical and methodological topics trace anevolution of curricular approaches and use ofevolving online platforms. Examples of themesand visual strategies demonstrate the power ofstudent-directed collaborative learning. Diversevoices have been gathered through researchconducted with educators and alumni connected toINTAC, providing perspectives on workingcollaboratively in a global context. Student projectsexemplify responses to the challenges ofcommunication and creation that come withdistanced artistic partnership. Chapters end withsuggested points for conversation, whetherbetween educators, students of art education orstudents entering collaborations. Although basedon experiences in the visual arts, the ideas andmethods are applicable to others engaging in inter-institutional education or online collaborativepractices. Fully illustrated with examplesof collaborative artprojects, photographs, screenshots, diagrams and posters.
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Intellect Digital Embodiment and the Arts
Book SynopsisA timely examination of the use ofemerging technologies in the arts in recentdecades, from the first wave of Virtual Realitythrough to the current use of Mixed, Augmentedand Extended Realities. It highlights the necessityof understanding technological experiencesthrough the assumption that all experience isembodied. An explosion of digital culture andexperience has most certainly given artists andcreative practitioners new ways of exploring ahybridisation of creative practices with access totechnological tools only previously dreamt of.Further, there are a number of threads arounddigital embodiment and its centrality to the digitalexperience. The book is divided into 3: Section 1 explores thewhole notion of embodied experience through astudy of space and virtuality, imagination, andtechnology. Section 2 lays the ground for a moreexplicit understanding of the role the body has inour engagement with the digital technologiesfocussing on three distinct bodies: the gravitational body, the
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Krannert Art Museum,US Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How
Book SynopsisZina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance? is the first publication on the work of Zina Saro-Wiwa, a British-Nigerian video artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Occupying the space between documentary and performance, Saro-Wiwa’s videos, photographs, and sound produced in the Niger Delta region of southeastern Nigeria from 2013–2015 explore folklore, masquerade traditions, religious practices, food, and Nigerian popular aesthetics. Engaging Niger Delta residents as subjects and collaborators, Saro-Wiwa cultivates strategies of psychic survival and performance, testing contemporary art’s capacity to transform and to envision new concepts of environment and environmentalism. Known for decades for corruption and environmental degradation, the Niger Delta is one of the largest oil producing regions of the world, and until 2010 provided the United States with a quarter of its oil. Saro-Wiwa returns to this contested region—the place of her birth—to tell new stories. Featuring a guest foreword by Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa; essays by Stephanie LeMenager, Amy L. Powell, and Taiye Selasi; an interview with the artist by Chika Okeke-Agulu; and recipes created by the artist.
£44.96
Film & Video Umbrella Marine Hugonnier
Book SynopsisA survey of film and photographic work by the French artist Marine Hugonnier, this monographic publication also functions as catalogue of Hugonnier's exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts in 2004.Richly illustrated throughout, the book highlights two companion film projects, Ariana' (2003) and The Last Tour' (2004), and also showcases a series of photographic works by the artist. The publication features commissioned texts by Michael Newman and Jeremy Millar, plus an interview with Marine Hugonnier by Lynne Cooke.Published by Film and Video Umbrella and Dundee Contemporary Arts. Supported by the National Touring Programme of the Arts Council of England.
£14.76
Black Dog Press Federico Solmi: Escape Into The Metaverse
Book SynopsisFederico Solmi: Escape Into The Metaverse examines the work of Federico Solmi, a leading practitioner in the genre of new media art. As a narrative and figurative artist, Solmi utilises lurid colours and satire to portray a dystopian vision of contemporary society, highlighting the contradictions and fallibilities that characterise our time. Employing video, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound and digital game design, he creates a carnivalesque virtual reality with historical and present-day world leaders – animated by computer script and motion capture performance – in a critique of Western society’s obsession with power. Inspired by real events and fabricated myths, Solmi explores, re-interprets and concocts celebrated moments in history. As reconfigured narratives, these social and political commentaries disrupt the mythologies that underpin Western society, revealing its ties to nationalism, colonialism, religion and consumerism.The book documents Solmi’s unique process of melding traditional art practices and digital technologies in a case study of his most ambitious video-painting to date, The Bathhouse (2020). Pioneering new modes of cultural production and art experience afforded by the metaverse, Solmi’s absurd rewriting of past and present merge dark humor and a sense of the grotesque in a virtual world that indicts our own reality.Solmi was born in 1973 to a working-class family in Bologna, Italy. He is self-trained and self-educated. In 1999, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, to pursue his career. His perspective reflects his outlook as a cultural voyeur, questioning the nationalistic and revisionist American mythologies that are often presented as fact. In 2003, Solmi began to experiment with the tools of video game design, fascinated by the parallel universe made possible by 3D graphics, which he saw as a structure to create narrative video sequences using drawings and paintings. Every visual texture is painted and scanned on the computer up to three times to achieve the intentional flickering effect. The art of Paolo Uccello, Giorgio Morandi and Giorgio di Chirico serve as references for his visual compositions, while the writings of Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky and Oriana Fallaci serve as inspiration for his social and political commentary.
£22.46
Hesse Press E Girl
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£17.58
Contemporary Arts Museum Jordan Strafer: Trilogy
Book SynopsisA recent film trilogy addressing the insidious and violent nature of whiteness, privilege and misogyny New York–based artist Jordan Strafer (born 1990) makes highly narrative films that are absurd and fantastical meditations on power and violence. This volume presents her latest trilogy of videos, drawing from autobiography and cultural sources to create a "Mad Libs–like" collage of visual and textual references.
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University of North Georgia Latinx Media
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Clementine de La Feronniere JR: Chronicles
Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview on the French artist who has transformed cities worldwide with his epic portraits of their inhabitants Over the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist's career, JR: Chronicles accompanies the first major exhibition in North America of works by the French-born artist. Working at the intersections of photography, social engagement and street art, JR collaborates with communities by taking individual portraits, reproducing them at a monumental scale and wheat pasting them—sometimes illegally—in nearby public spaces. This superbly produced volume traces JR's career from his early documentation of graffiti artists as a teenager in Paris to his large-scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide, to his more recent digitally collaged murals that create collective portraits of diverse publics. The centerpiece of the accompanying exhibition is The Chronicles of New York City, a new epic mural of more than 1,000 New Yorkers. Also included are previously unseen murals set in Brooklyn; Face 2 Face, diptychs of Israelis and Palestinians in Palestinian and Israeli cities; Women Are Heroes, featuring images of the eyes of women gazing back at their communities in numerous countries; The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America, JR's complex work on guns in America; and other equally famous works. JR (born 1983) is best known for his monumental, wheat-pasted street portraiture projects. JR has carried out projects across the globe. He has shown in museums worldwide and has created site specific works for the Louvre, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Centre Pompidou.Trade ReviewJR’s primary mode [is] capturing the overlooked and forcing people to gaze upon them. It is, without doubt, noble. In JR’s projects, which take place around the world, he is both interloper and collaborator... -- John Caramanica * New York Times *“JR: Chronicles” tracks his by now well-documented actions from the Gaza Strip and the slums of Southern Sudan and Sierra Leone, to more recent work in the United States. Because his art is centered on portraiture and involves wheat-pasting oversize prints on building exteriors, JR is usually categorized as a photographer or a street artist, but neither really gets at his abiding interest, which is people, and connecting them. -- Max Lakin * New York Times *“JR: Chronicles” tracks his by now well-documented actions from the Gaza Strip and the slums of Southern Sudan and Sierra Leone, to more recent work in the United States. Because his art is centered on portraiture and involves wheat-pasting oversize prints on building exteriors, JR is usually categorized as a photographer or a street artist, but neither really gets at his abiding interest, which is people, and connecting them. -- Max Lakin * The New York Times *Altogether, the pieces on display at [Brooklyn Museum] expand upon the artist’s practice of merging photography with social engagement while gleaning methodical approaches from graffiti. * Hypebeast *An enormous new interactive photo installation documents the joy and beauty of everyday life in the Big Apple. -- Aidan Graham * Brooklyn Paper *Through his powerful storytelling abilities and willingness to question traditional power structures, JR breaks boundaries and re-invents the medium of photography. -- Bryan Shim * Design Boom *The artist is known for his monumental public projects that rely on participation from his subjects, and for tackling hot-button social issues — immigration, women’s rights and gun control, for a few — through his art. -- Alex Williamson * Brooklyn Eagle *The retrospective’s focal point is The Chronicles of New York City, 2018–19, a new mural about New York’s five boroughs, capturing more than 1,000 New Yorkers and featuring audio of subjects talking about their lives. -- Raymond Ang * Wall Street Journal *The streets have been at the heart of JR’s practice, the place where the French artist finds his subjects, where he photographs them, and where he displays his work, wheatpasting enlarged images on buildings around the world... -- Sarah Cascone * Artnet *[JR's photographs] challenge stereotypes by highlighting humanity through specificity... -- Kristen Tauer * WWD *
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De Gruyter Claudia Larcher – Rooms: #rooms #räume #locaux #architecture #architektur #collage #animation #arts #kunst #lart #digitalarts #digitalekunst #lartnumerique #video
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De Gruyter Viral Lobbying: Strategies, Access and Influence
Book SynopsisPandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. In Viral Lobbying a team of expert authors from across the social and natural sciences analyse patterns in and implications of this ‘viral lobbying’. Based on elite surveys and focus group interviews with selected groups, the book provides new evidence on the lobbying strategies used during the COVID 19 pandemic, as well as the resulting access to and lobbying influence on public policy. The empirical analyses reach across eight European countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom), as well as the EU-level. In particular, the book draws on responses from approximately 1,600 interest organisations in two waves of a cross-country survey (in 2020 and 2021, respectively). This quantitative data is supplemented by qualitative evidence from a series of 12 focus groups with organised interests in Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands conducted in spring 2021.
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Rab-Rab Press About Narration
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£12.00
Liberal Publishing 30: Three Decades of the New Nigerian Cinema:
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£27.46
Independently Published Paperback Celluloid: Elmore Leonard on FIlm
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£9.48
Wave Books Unexplained Presence
Book Synopsis***Now with a new afterword by MARGO JEFFERSON*** In Tisa Bryant''s Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mis-en-scènes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within various visual narratives. Moving from cultural analysis to cinematic (re)creation, Bryant''s prose traverses like a tracking shot through John Schlesinger''s Darling, Patricia Rozema''s Mansfield Park and Virginia Woolf''s Orlando, giving voice to characters whom have otherwise been structurally silenced. As Pulitzer-prize winning author Margo Jefferson aptly points out in her afterword, Tisa Bryant doesn''t merely write about film; she is an "auteur," a "cultural anthropologist," and a "virtuosic critic-artist." Since its original publication with Leon Works in 2007, Unexplained Presence has been foundational among poets,
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Transcript Verlag Listen Up! – Radio Art in the USA
Book SynopsisListen Up! is the world's first publication to take a look at American radio art as a distinct sound art practice. Analytical essays by leading media art historians and practitioners discuss how the field took shape in the context of changing broadcast environments and socio-political realities, while manifestos and other original documents provide vivid glimpses into the concerns of artists seeking to insert their alternative visions into the mass medium radio. The volume also elucidates the role of prominent artists who worked extensively for European broadcasters and considers the difference between sound works for broadcast radio and their internet incarnations.
£38.24
University of Illinois Press New Media Futures
Book SynopsisTrailblazing women working in digital arts media and education established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. Foundational events at the University of Illinois and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago created an authentic, community-driven atmosphere of creative expression, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration that crossed gender lines and introduced artistically informed approaches to advanced research. Interweaving historical research with interviews and full-color illustrations, New Media Futures captures the spirit and contributions of twenty-two women working within emergent media as diverse as digital games, virtual reality, medicine, supercomputing visualization, and browser-based art. The editors and contributors give voice as creators integral to the development of these new media and place their works at the forefront of social change and artistic inquiry. What emerges is the dramatic story Trade Review"This is a book that can be picked up and opened to any area to explore. If you do, you will come away a little bit wiser, certainly more informed and totally impressed with what these women have done." --Illinois Times"This important anthology offers riveting testimonials to the tangible contributions of women during the dawn of the digital era. Concentrated in the Midwest, these scientists, inventors, designers and artists faced down gender bias to shape the global future of technology and culture."--Sara Diamond, President, OCAD University"It was one of the formative periods in my life to be associated with many of the creative women in this book. It was a magic period, when these women helped transform the world as we knew it. I am so happy to see their innovative work is finally getting "New Media Futures will be a rewarding read and a prized possession for scholars interested in the experimental, creative spaces for art carved out by women working between the coasts. . . . The many images from the artists’ own collections, and stories told in their own words make this lively and engaging volume a welcome addition to the literatures on women’s history, the histories of computing, and the digital media arts." --Platypus"This is a fascinating and important book. It will appeal to scientists, technologists, artists and the general public. It tells wonderfully exciting stories of creative, risk-taking women (and men) that will inspire present and future generations. These stories demonstrate that the creative spark that drives scientists and artists knows no disciplinary boundaries. And it is simply a delightful read."--Walter E. Massey, Chancellor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago"New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts is poised to become a valuable study tool for those interested in the intersection between art, women artists, and technology." --Hyperallergic“A very necessary book that all daughters should read." --Shannon Jackson, Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts and Design, University of California, Berkeley"New Media Futures is an important and interesting work not only because it seeks to create a history of largely undocumented subject, the importance of women and the Midwest to digital arts, but also because of the approach the editors take to the work. . . . Anyone from a casual reader to an artist, scientist, or academic may learn from and appreciate this work." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"New Media Futures will be a rewarding read and a prized possession for scholars interested in the experimental, creative spaces for art carved out by women working between the coasts. . . . The many images from the artists’ own collections, and stories told in their own words make this lively and engaging volume a welcome addition to the literatures on women’s history, the histories of computing, and the digital media arts." --Platypus "It was one of the formative periods in my life to be associated with many of the creative women in this book. It was a magic period, when these women helped transform the world as we knew it. I am so happy to see their innovative work is finally getting the attention it deserves."--Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 and NCSA
£27.90
University of Minnesota Press Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the
Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde’s pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control In postwar Italy, a group of visionary artists used emergent computer technologies as both tools of artistic production and a means to reconceptualize the dynamic interrelation between individual freedom and collectivity. Working contrary to assumptions that the rigid, structural nature of programming limits subjectivity, this book traces the multifaceted practices of these groundbreaking artists and their conviction that technology could provide the conditions for a liberated social life.Situating their developments within the context of the Cold War and the ensuing crisis among the Italian left, Arte Programmata describes how Italy’s distinctive political climate fueled the group’s engagement with computers, cybernetics, and information theory. Creating a broad range of immersive environments, kinetic sculptures, domestic home goods, and other multimedia art and design works, artists such as Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari, and others looked to the conceptual frameworks provided by this new technology to envision a way out of the ideological impasses of the age.Showcasing the ingenuity of Italy’s earliest computer-based art, this study highlights its distinguishing characteristics while also exploring concurrent developments across the globe. Centered on the relationships between art, technology, and politics, Arte Programmata considers an important antecedent to the digital age. Trade Review "Lindsay Caplan’s Arte Programmata offers a compelling account of a group of lesser-known artists affiliated with the Italian Arte Programmata movement, whose experimental art and design practices, emerging in the nascent years of computerization, pointedly (and presciently) engaged with political questions around freedom and control, individuality and collectivity. Beautifully written, sharply analytic, and free of jargon, Caplan’s incisive study should find a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the roots and impacts of technological change."—Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life "Arte Programmata forces us to reconsider ossified ideas about the relationship between politics and aesthetics by asking us to think seriously about what we mean when we reflexively invoke concepts such as resistance, subversion, and negation to understand radical art and design practices. In doing so, Lindsay Caplan disrupts the categories and boundaries circumscribing art history’s presumed objects and methods. Here, art, design, theory, and politics comingle in new ways that allow us to see the continuing relevance of a particular strand of Italian art and design while also inspiring readers to reconsider their own assumptions about the many forms freedom might take in both our intellectual work and our lives."—Larry D. Busbea, author of The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s "Arte Programmata is simultaneously revolutionary and pragmatic."—Jan Baetens, Leonardo Reviews "This book is a rich and sophisticated narrative of the unfolding of Arte Programmata during the decade of the 1960s."—Ian Verstegen, Leonardo Reviews "Arte Programmata provides a nuanced, incisive window into the ways in which artists grappled with arrival of computing technology in postwar Italy. "—Critical Inquiry "Well-written and relatively jargon-free, Arte Programmata is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the intersection of art and technology (and artists and engineers)."—Technology and Culture "A carefully reconstructed history, focusing on the political dimension and context in which the left, Eco’s ‘open work,’ and early computer art flourished in the same spaces."—Neural
£25.19
Abrams The Art of Marvel Studios What If...
Book SynopsisThe official behind-the-scenes art book for Marvel Studios’ Emmy Award–nominated Disney+ animated series What If…? The Art of Marvel Studios’ What If…? takes fans behind the scenes of Marvel Studios’ first animated series. Reimagining famous events from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in unexpected ways, and featuring a voice cast that includes Hayley Atwell, Tom Hiddleston, Chadwick Boseman, and many other stars reprising their roles from the films, the Emmy Award–nominated What If…? creates alternate worlds from the ones you know and opens up a plethora of vast new realities. With each story, The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) acts as a guide through these various timelines and raises such questions as: What if Ultron successfully defeated the Avengers and acquired the Infinity Stones? What if Peggy Carter was injected with Super Soldier Serum instead of Steve Rogers? What if T’Challa
£28.00
Page Street Publishing Co. The Beginner’s Guide to Procreate: Everything You
Book SynopsisStart your digital art journey the right way with this incredible collection of all the know-how, tools and techniques you need to jump head first into Procreate®. Digital artist extraordinaire Roché Woodworth has spent years mastering Procreate, and now she shares those skills with you, from setting up a digital canvas to completing your first masterpiece. Get a master class in all the most important Procreate features you’ll need to get started, including using brushes, layers, colour palettes, masks and more. Roché’s helpful instruction on colour theory, composition and other foundational drawing techniques set you up for success to create adorable portraits, furry friends, playful landscapes and more. Simple step-by-step instructions guide you through a variety of fun projects like a Smiley Flowerpot, a Little Ballerina ready for her first recital and a charming Pink Forest Cottage. The projects are paired with helpful reference images of the Procreate tools and functions you need to complete each masterpiece. Armed with Roché’s guidance and beginner-friendly tutorials, all you need is an iPad©, Apple Pencil© and your creativity to start making the digital art of your dreams.
£16.99
Titan Books Ltd Star Trek The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC1701
Book SynopsisCaptain James T. Kirk's Original Starship Enterprise! Everything you want to know about this iconic starship in the FIRST full color volume ever published. Featuring details from both TV series and the first six movies. This volume, featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A, is a detailed, illustrative account of the TV starship from the original 1966-1969 series, and the movie starship from STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979), STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982), STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984), STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (1986), STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (1989), and STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991). Plus, Captain Pike's Enterprise from the hit TV series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. With isometric illustrations of all the key locations, annotated plan views, detailed technical information, Starfleet equipment, and uniforms and insignia, the chapters follow the starships through time and provide an extraordinary refe
£999.99
Design Studio Press Structura 3: The Art of Sparth
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£25.49
Valiz Rafaël Rozendaal: Everything, Always, Everywhere
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£23.75
Walter Foster Publishing Drawing Digital
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£19.99
University of California Press Videoland
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Herbert effectively traces a genealogy of movies from the strip malls of yesteryear to today's rootless culture of moving-image consumption." -- Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa Film Comment "Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store is an unusual and often unusually compelling study of the emergence and disappearance of American movie-rental stores." -- Clayton Dillard Slant "Videoland...offers an outstanding analysis of film as material object embedded within a specific cultural moment, and it is, I believe, a must-read for students of media history." -- Linnie Blake Times Higher Education "Daniel Herbert's fascinating new study, Videoland, recalls a time that seems impossibly remote, even though it barely ended a decade ago." -- Michael S. Gant SantaCruz.com "Herbert's attention to the interlopers and improbable pioneers who helped propel movie culture forward in the 1980s and 1990s is a welcome addition to other recent examinations of home video as well as the emerging field of media industries." -- Kevin McDonald Discourse "In juxtaposing media industry studies with a specific eye toward Americana and regionalism, Videoland offers a loving tribute to the video store as a significant space in media history." -- David Lerner Spectator "Written in a clear, clean, accessible style, this is a masterful study of a cultural moment whose time has come and gone." -- Wheeler Winston Dixon CHOICE "Through [his] interviews, he creates a richly textured sense of the culture that existed in many video stores, of the way the stores were woven into their local communities, and of the economic challenges the stores confronted in a shifting technological landscape." -- Brian L. Ott Journal of American History "Herbert's interdisciplinary methodology is one of the book's chief achievements. Comprised of excellent historical research and cultural analysis, Videoland also makes an important contribution to a range of subfields within film and media studies, including media distribution, media history, taste cultures, film criticism, and ethnographic audience research." -- Maureen Rogers Velvet Light Trap "An accessible history of the video rental store and its impact on media consumption." -- Kristopher Purzycki Film CriticismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Video Rental and the "Shopping" of Media Part I. The History and Culture of Video Rental 1. A Long Tale 2. Practical Classifications Part II. Video Stores and the Localization of Movie Culture 3. Video Capitals 4. Video Rental in Small-Town America Part III. Circulations of Video Store Culture 5. Distributing Value 6. Mediating Choice: Criticism, Advice, Metadata Coda: The Value of the Tangible Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Icon Books The 50 Greatest Westerns
Book SynopsisAuthor Barry Stone has served his apprenticeship as a western movie geek and aficionado. The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Red River - for 50 years the western has been the only genre in a life that 'just ain't big enough for two'. He has written on the history of cinema for the illustrated reference book Historica, is a regular attendee to western premieres for FOX Studios Australia, and was recently a guest of the Museum of Western Film History in Independence, California.Intrigued by the idea of frontier wilderness, of law and order vs lawlessness, and a firm belief that 'the better the bad guy, the better the film', he goes beyond the American south-west to pay homage to the Italian and even Australian western - and, after much deliberation, he ranks them in order.
£8.09
Phaidon Press Ltd Video/Art: The First Fifty Years
Book SynopsisA personal and expert account of the artists and events that defined the medium’s first 50 years, written a true expert in the field‘London’s book excites because it brings new artists into a lineage worthy of greater stuff. Her passion for lesser-known figures … is contagious.’ – ARTnews, The Best Art Books of 2020Since the introduction of portable consumer electronics nearly a half century ago, artists throughout the world have adapted their latest technologies to art-making. This first-hand account by the curator who has been following video art from its beginnings in the late 1960s, when artists first adapted portable consumer technology to art-making, spotlights video’s ongoing importance in the art world, tracing the genre’s development alongside the advances in technology that have continued to open up new possibilities for artists. London has worked closely and personally with the artists she writes about, who span generations, including Joan Jonas, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Shirin Neshat, Pipilotti Rist, Miranda July, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Ian Cheng. The text is both art-historical and personal – weaving together background information and insightful interpretations with unique anecdotes and experiences to trace the history of video art as it transformed into the broader field of media art – from analog to digital, small TV monitors to wall-scale projections, and clunky hardware to user-friendly software. In doing this, she reveals how video evolved from fringe status to be seen as one of the foremost art forms of today. Trade Review"[A]n unabashed personal history coupled with a treasure trove of straight-forward facts about the artists, the art works, and the technological twists and turns that produced this art... Must read for anyone wanting both a personalized dialogue and encyclopedic knowledge on an art form that now dominates our contemporary art landscape." - Dara Birnbaum, artist"Reflects on a fast-moving medium... [the book] identifies the central figures at each stage of the medium's development in extended essays." - The Art Newspaper"Video/Art is both an affectionate and knowledgeable piece of work, full of personal experiences and reflections as well as being a meticulous history of the form." - Trebuchet Magazine"London's new book, Video/Art: The First 50 Years, is a comprehensive vision of video art from the early practitioners up to present-day and beyond. Video/Art explores the impact and evolution of this "space-age medium", envisioning the scope and possibilities that new technologies could create in the future." - Dazed Digital"No history of video art is as comprehensive and essential as the new Video/Art: The First 50 Years by Barbara London." - ARTnews Online"One of the art form's founders makes the case that video art can one day rival the popularity of painting and sculpture." - Bloomberg"Fifty years ago, video art didn't exist. Now, social-media users watch billions of clips a day. One curator [Barbara London] has seen it all change... London's new book, Video/Art: The First 50 Years, is the first survey of how the art world changed. More than that: in the age of the smartphone, her book is a history of how Western society was transformed." - The Telegraph"Readers plunge into a hub of buzzing counterculture via memories of pivotal experimentation and underground screenings." - Aesthetica magazine"Barbara London's indispensable and enticingly personal history... [in which] few guides are more qualified to lead readers through the rapid rise of the once renegade art form... What makes her book such a fun read is that it's not exactly the comprehensive survey its title implies. Instead, it's as much memoir as exegesis, an idiosyncratic front-line report from a deeply informed, intrepid, and passionate pioneer who is still in the trenches." - New Yorker Online"The book is a backstage account of video's evolution, written by one of its first specialized curators." - Performa Magazine Online
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