Veit Erlmann - Reason and Resonance
Hearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense — less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reason an..(read more)
Publisher: Zone Books / 9781935408055
Author: Veit Erlmann
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: History, Music Theory.
Gerd Kroske - La Villette
Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists, including Jürg..(read more)
Label: DEFA
Artist: Gerd Kroske
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Art, Documentary, Eastern Europe, History.
David P.D. Munns - A Single Sky
In A Single Sky, the historian David Munns explains how the idea of the radio telescope emerged from a new scientific community uniting the power of radio with ..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press
Author: David P.D. Munns
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: History, Science, Technology.
Julia Bryan-Wilson - Art Workers
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of American artists and critics ..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 978-0520269750
Author: Julia Bryan-Wilson
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, History, Protest.
Trevor Paglen - The Last Pictures
Inspired by ancient cave paintings, nuclear warning signs, and Carl Sagan’s Golden Records of the 70s, he collected 100 images to be etched onto a golden ..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 978-0520275003
Author: Trevor Paglen
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Futurism, History, Photography, Technology.
Lauren Rabinovitz - Electric Dreamland. Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century. Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and..(read more)
Publisher: Columbia University Press / ISBN 9780231156608
Author: Lauren Rabinovitz
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Cinema, Culture Theory, History, Pop Culture, Sociology.
Caroline Martel - The Phantom of the Operator
This wry and delightful found-footage film reveals a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators’ central place in the deve..(read more)
Label: Artifact
Artist: Caroline Martel
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Collage, Documentary, History, Network Culture.
Various Artists - Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games
From the sexy, savage’ Cornish May Day rites of Alan Lomax’s Oss Oss Wee Oss, to Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane’s footage of ferociously fought t..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / ISBN 5035673009208
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: 2DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Compilations, Early Cinema, Film History, Folk, History, Traditional.
Roberto Dillon - The Golden Age of Video Games
This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital..(read more)
Publisher: CRC Press / ISBN 9781439873236
Author: Roberto Dillon
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: History, Video Games.
