Posts Tagged: book

Digitalization and de-digitalization, some notes

By francescacoluzzi, October 2, 2012

1. The history of the transmission of human knowledge carried by the historical libraries and archives through the centuries, is a good context in which to observe in the media the process from the oral tradition, passing through the physical actual writing, now leads to digital format. The first to express the changing times in [...]

KALEIDOSCOPE #12 – THE STATE OF THE ART BOOK

By Silvio Lorusso, September 22, 2011

Kaleidoscope #12 the issue features a 30-pages survey on the topic of the artist books, including a conversation between JRP|Ringer director Lionel Bovier and Printed Matter’s AA Bronson, an essay by Kaleidoscope Editor-at-Large Chris Sharp on the role of the book in contemporary artistic practices, a conversation between London-based graphic design studio Åbäke and Birmingham [...]

Interview with Paul Ashton, co-founder of re.press

By Silvio Lorusso, September 13, 2011

re.press is a publishing house based in Melbourne primarily devoted to contemporary philosophy. The conscious employment of the new dissemination possibilities offered by the internet is what makes re.press different from other publishing houses in the field. Every academic book published by re.press is available as an open-access file, while the physical version is produced [...]
Nina Post runs her publishing house mainly by herself. Her...

Interview with Nina Post, director of Post Editions

By Silvio Lorusso, September 12, 2011

Nina Post runs her publishing house mainly by herself. Her love for all kinds of books led to her involvement in publishing, even though she has no official specialization in art or photography. Post Editions is quite new, but Nina’s experience dates back to 1992 when she started to work at 010 Publishers. In 2002 [...]

Bernard Duplat & Étienne Mineur – Éditions Volumiques

By Silvio Lorusso, September 11, 2011

Les éditions volumiques is a publishing house focusing on the paper book as a new computer platform, as well as a research lab on book, (computational) paper, reading and their relation to new technologies.

OPEN BOOKS II

By Silvio Lorusso, September 10, 2011

Umberto Eco, Le nom de la rose, extrait (enlarge – english version) Open Books II by Charlotte Cheetham & Sophie Demay Open Books is a project initiated by curators Charlotte Cheetham & Sophie Demay, which questions the representation and exhibition of the book as an object. Presented in London in February 2011, its first version [...]

Time to leave the room

By Silvio Lorusso, September 8, 2011

In relation to the previous post, Frédéric Kaplan offers, in one note of his essay, a description of how debates about the end of the book generally develop. It seems useful to keep this discourse’s path in mind in order to avoid the loop repetition of the same mental models: Most debates follow the same [...]

Frédéric Kaplan – How books will become machines

By Silvio Lorusso, September 7, 2011

In occasion of the debate: «Des manuscrits antiques à l’ère digitale. Lectures et littératies» held in Lausanne, Frédéric Kaplan, a researcher in artificial intelligence, presented a series of interesting reflections around the future developments of the book’s form.

Print Culture, Dead or Alive?!

By Silvio Lorusso, September 1, 2011

Dead or alive? No other branch predicts its own demise as often as the book industry. Yet despite the apodictic “book-is-dead” lament of many experts, countless new books are again being published this year. Now, parallel to the Frankfurt Book Fair, a new event is being launched, dedicated to the printing of books and magazines. [...]

Gary Hall: Liquid, Living Books

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Gary Hall is a cultural and media theorist who has written many books on these subjects. He is a professor of Media and Performing Arts at Conventry University (UK) and co-founder of Open Humanities Press. Gary Hall @ The Unbound Book Conference photo cc by-sa Sebastiaan ter Burg Gary Hall started his talk which was [...]