Wow. We have an unbelievable assortment of books and DVDs for June.
Surely, every Library Service list is fantastic,
but June’s list really takes the cake. Without further ado….
We first bring you two titles from Rhizome’s Celebrating New Media Scholarship series. Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media arts community, and since 2003, an affiliate organization of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. This summer and fall, the organization will host a series of events which acknowledge important contributions to the field of new media art. Rhizome recently celebrated the release of New Media Art, a new book from critic Reena Jana and Rhizome.org founder Mark Tribe. New Media Art situates the practice as a specific art historical movement, and presents a colorful, basic primer on the subject. On June 15th, Rhizome will continue with a launch for Ed Halter’s From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games at the New Museum Store. Halter’s book explores the history of the relationship between games and military culture, and illuminates the troubling connection between the simulation of war and its reality.
More New Media, you say? Perhaps we can suggest Else/Where: Mapping- New Cartography of Networks or DATA Browser 03 Curating Immateriality: the Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems, both on this month’s list. Else/Where: Mapping showcases a number of cutting edge projects in graphic and industrial design, art, architecture, and technology which examine how cartographic techniques are adapted to map the emerging landscapes of electronic communication. Curating Immateriality: the Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems is a collection of essays which survey the transformation of the practice of curation by distributed networks.
And lastly, before you delve into June’s assortment, we leave you with two important books which address the current state of arts institutions. One is the aptly titled Art and Its Institutions, another fine project undertaken by the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, which details the present conditions influencing arts institutions and its effect on artistic practice. The other is Notes for an Art School, a publication released by the organizers of Manifesta 6, before a disagreement between the curators and the city of Nicosia effectively discontinued the project. Manifesta 6 was to be a biennial in the form of an experimental art school, and Notes for an Art School documents some of the fresh ideas and queries offered up by this project.
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