In Personal Computers, Los Angeles based artist Filip Kostic compiles found images collected over the past 9 years that trace the history of custom computer building and modification. Kostic proposes this lineage as a new folk art, considering the difference between personal and impersonal computer, and by inserting his own work, proposes how artists using these technologies might engage with this history moving forward.
Printed by Typecraft in Pasadena, California, 140lb Cover, 110lb Text
A book visually examining the twentieth-century emergence of new methods for representation, simulation, and manufacturing linked to computers, and reflecting on their contemporary repercussions across creative fields.
This book will provide newcomers with a thorough introduction to the past, present and future of speculative design and related approaches. Experienced practitioners will have the opportunity to check in and learn more about diverse approaches, methods and tools, as well as case studies.
Searching for agency in the post-Snowden era of mass surveillance and powerful computer vision systems, a cast of key interdisciplinary voices analzye eroding privacy, the proliferation of computational aesthetics, and our increasingly augmented realities. Also: artist encounters, a digital art history lesson, and tales from the dawn of computer graphics.
The word scale is tricky. It invites many definitions, orientations and connections to ourselves, our surroundings and our tools. However, to think of scale as solely technical is reductive and omits the relations, feelings and beliefs that come with such measurements and images. In this book, eight authors come together to challenge our conventions and understanding of scale as grounded in the human.
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