The Library

The Library

Building a library of art + design books, catalogues, essays and documents — Hosts: @paul-prudence @vortac — Send a direct cast for an invite — 'Archive of Casts' solution provided by @nftbiker

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📖 Welcome! Let’s build /the-library together, a living repository of our favorite books, catalogues, essays and documents, about → art → design → typography → creative coding → visual arts related + your own images + short reasoning + author, title, field of art Hosted by: @paul-prudence @vortac

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Images from Bauhausbücher Between 1925 and 1930, the Bauhaus published a series of 14 books, authored by teachers and friends of the legendary design school. The titles discussed the ideas of the Bauhaus in art, design and architecture. 👁↓👁 https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/buehne_bauhaus1925/0102/image

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The Dream Machine, M. Mitchell Waldrop, 2018 Instant hit from Stripe Press featuring the story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet—and shifted our understanding of what computers could be. It includes the original texts of Licklider’s three most influential writings: “Man-Computer Symbiosis” (1960), which outlines the vision that led to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s; his “Intergalactic Network” memo (1963), which outlines the vision that inspired the internet; and “The Computer as a Communication Device” (1968, coauthored with Robert Taylor), which amplifies his vision for what the network could become.

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If you didn't see the Electric OP exhibit in Buffalo (USA), and can't come to see it in Nantes (France) you can still buy the great catalog :)

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Mark Blacklock Emergence of the Fourth Dimension, 2018 A fascinating account of the history of the development of higher dimensional space in mathematics in the late nineteenth century and its proliferation into the visuals arts and early modernist literature in the twentieth century.

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Visual Music Masters: Abstract Explorations: History and Contemporary Research, Adriano Abbado, 2018 Visual Music Masters explores past and present research questioning the relationship between music and abstract art. The book illustrates the stages by which the artistic community has embraced the latest technologies and a multi-sensory universe, creating in the process an independent form of expression: visual music. More impressions ↓↓↓

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the 2nd book i ordered from Metalabel just arrived! the design of this one is STUNNING. 🤩 AUTONOMOUS WORLDS ft. multiple contributors. 👾 fun fact: someone i went to university with co-authored an essay for this book (Alasdair Milne :-) )

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Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect (2014, La Fábrica/Fundación Juan March)

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Google, Volume 1, King Zog, 2013 Google Volume 2, Félix Heyes & Ben West, 2024

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The Art and Science of Ernst Hackel - Taschen Discover Ernst Haeckel, the artist-biologist who found beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures. This collection features 300 prints from his most important publications, including the majestic Kunstformen der Natur and his extensive catalogues of marine life.

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Gm friends ✨ /the-library is one of the channels with the best content on @farcaster. And it's amazing to be able to access all the books and casts published there since the beginning through this page created by @nftbiker : https://nftbiker.github.io/the-library/ [*see more about it in the comments]

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katayama ken oil paintings book purchased at the kichijoji art museum in 2022 during his show

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DIA–LOGOS: Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice Studies on the legacy of Ramon Llull - visionary thinker, pioneer of generative systems, ritual heuristics, and a true forefather of artificial intelligence and computational culture Edited by - Amador Vega, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski, released by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2019)

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Google Volume 2, Felix Heyes & Ben West, 2024 Google Images is the largest image search engine on the internet. According to its guiding principles, the search engine should display the most relevant images for searches. Ten years ago, Felix Heyes and Ben West put this to the test. In their book Google Volume 1 (2013), they replaced the 21,110 words and their meanings in the English Pocket Dictionary with the first image that appeared when the word was searched for on Google Images. Ten years later, the same 21,110 words have once again been run through the search engine.

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Less of a mood, more of an existential constant.... Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Omnicide II, Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception, 2024 Perhaps not your average post for /the-library but I would highly recommend Urbanomic to adventurous readers of critical theory, theory-fiction and philosophy. 'Cross-disciplinary thinking outside the academy.' https://www.urbanomic.com/book/

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