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<http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/newsletters/email_files/library_service_logo.gif> <http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/newsletters/email_files/sept.gif> We're kicking off Fall with a bang! New New Museum Store website <http://www.icebase.com/go.shtml?20060921113202510218&[log in to unmask]&http://www.newmuseumstore.org> ! New New Museum Store Library Service design! Plus... We've invited new media art luminary and Rhizome.org founder Mark Tribe <http://www.icebase.com/go.shtml?20060921113202510218&[log in to unmask]&http://www.nothing.org> to curate a September booklist on the topic Open Source Culture. Rhizome, a leading new media art organization and an affiliate organization of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, celebrates its Tenth Anniversary this fall and winter with a Festival taking place in New York and online. Check the Festival website <http://www.icebase.com/go.shtml?20060921113202510218&[log in to unmask]&http://rhizome.org/events/tenyear/> for information on events (several taking place at the New Museum Store) and online exhibitions and participatory projects. Be sure to stay tuned! This year we will continue to roll out booklists by a number of notable curators and artists the world over. Open Source Culture By Mark Tribe Artists have always influenced and imitated one another, but in the 20th century various forms of appropriation, from collage to sampling, emerged as an alternative to ex nihilo creativity--instead of making things entirely from scratch, artists began to use found images and sounds in their work. The rise of appropriation, driven initially by technologies of mechanical reproduction, became even more pronounced with the appearance of personal computers, the Internet, and peer-to-peer file sharing networks. Meanwhile, the intellectual property laws that regulate access to appropriated material have become increasingly restrictive. As the tension between artistic practices and intellectual property policies has increased, an unlikely alliance of progressive legal scholars, artists, and technologists has developed alternative models, such as CopyLeft and Creative Commons, for sharing intellectual property. Relevant art movements and genres include Dadaist collage, Pop Art, Found Footage Film, Appropriation Art of the 1980s, Hip Hop, and various forms of New Media art. This interdisciplinary list includes books of or on: art history, art theory, poststructuralist theory, intellectual property law, free software, open source software, and poetry. <http://www.icebase.com/go.shtml?20060921113202510218&[log in to unmask]&http://www.newmuseumstore.org/viewItem.asp?ItemID=Aug06LibraryService&UnitCde=1&Desc=August%20Library%20Service%20List%20Curated%20by%20Mark%20Tribe&VendorDesc=&Search=N> <http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/newsletters/email_files/featured.gif> <http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/newsletters/email_files/title1.gif> Open Sources: Voices of the Open Source Revolution Edited by: Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone The idea for open source software began years ago with Richard Stallman, who at the time was considered crazy for proposing that computer code be free to all to use as they see fit as long as they posted the changed code for the common good. Along the way he won a MacArthur ("Genius") award, Linus Torvalds created Linux, and Brian Behlendorf developed Apache, the most used free web server package. This collection of writings by the leaders of the open source movement offers readers a chance to think about the past and how it will change the future of software development. O'Reilly Media; 1999; Softcover; 9.2 x 7 x .7 inches; 280 pages; ISBN: 1565925823 $24.95 <http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/newsletters/email_files/title2.gif> Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by Alexander Galloway In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and disconnections) possible. He does this by treating the computer as a textual medium that is based on a technological language, code. Code, he argues, can be subject to the same kind of cultural and literary analysis as any natural language; computer languages have their own syntax, grammar, communities, and cultures. Galloway begins by examining the types of protocols that exist, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTML. He then looks at examples of resistance and subversion -- hackers, viruses, cyberfeminism, Internet art -- which he views as emblematic of the larger transformations now taking place within digital culture. Written for a nontechnical audience, Protocol serves as a necessary counterpoint to the wildly utopian visions of the Net that were so widespread in earlier days. MIT Press; April 2006; Softcover; 7" x 9", 248 pp., 21 illus.;ISBN 100262572338 $16.95 <http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/newsletters/email_files/title3.gif> The Language of New Media By Lev Manovich In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media. MIT Press; 2002; Softcover; 8.7 x 7.3 x .9 inches; 352 pages; ISBN: 026232551 $24.95 <http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/newsletters/email_files/title4.gif> Free Software Free Society Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman by Richard M. Stallman and Joshua Gay, Ed. Stallman is known internationally as the creator of the GNU operating system and cofounder of the Free Software Foundation. In this collection, he provides an accessible guide to the philosophy that inspired his cause. Stallman also takes a critical look at how businesses abuse copyright law and patents as they apply to computer software applications. He explains how these actions damage our society and encroach on our freedoms. Free Software Foundation; 2002; Softcover; .5 x 7 x 9 inches; 224 Pages; ISBN: 1882114981 $24.95 <http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/newsletters/email_files/title5.gif> Copyrights and Copywrongs: the Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanathan Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media scholar and cultural historian, presents a reasoned and compelling argument for "thin" copyright policy. Vaidhyanathan traces the evolution of copyright law, arguing that it has come to restrict creativity and enjoin cultural expression that arises outside of white American and European traditions. He begins his look at the history of the law with the story of Mark Twain's call for perpetual copyright and its influence on the current author-centered view of the rights to creative works. He continues with interesting examples of recent contests involving property rights to film and music, the details of which illustrate the tangle of interests that is created by law, technology, and culture. New York University Press; 2003; Softcover; 8.8 x 6.4 x .7; 272 Pages; ISBN: 0814788076 $19.00 <http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/newsletters/email_files/title6.gif> The Future of Ideas The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig Author Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and keen observer of emerging technologies, makes a strong case that large corporations are staging an innovation-stifling power grab while we watch idly. The changes in copyright and other forms of intellectual property protection demanded by the media and software industries have the potential to choke off publicly held material, which Lessig sees as a kind of intellectual commons. He eloquently and persuasively decries this lopsided control of ideas and suggests practical solutions that consider the rights of both creators and consumers, while acknowledging the serious impact of new technologies on old ways of doing business. His proposals would let existing companies make money without using the tremendous advantages of incumbency to eliminate new killer apps before they can threaten the status quo. Vintage; 2002; Softcover; 8 x 5.3 x .8 inches; 384 pages; ISBN: 0375726446 $15.00 <http://www.icebase.com/go.shtml?20060921113202510218&[log in to unmask]&http://www.newmuseumstore.org/html/Register.asp> Use this link if the form does not work <http://www.icebase.com/send2friend.ice?tag=20060921113202510218&[log in to unmask]&Language=English> This CoolerEmail <http://www.cooleremail.com?newmuseum> was delivered to you by New Museum Store Library Service. 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