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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spread from: “CASA NO NAME” Deborah Turbeville (Rizzoli 2009)

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soulages sɹǝıdɐd Edited by Jean-Louis Andral Musée Picasso, Antibes Hazan (a few pictures in the comments(

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"Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media" Manovich, L., & Arielli, E. (2024) . Book PDF: https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/artificial-aesthetics . "The book explores how generative AI is transforming our understanding of aesthetics, creativity, design, and art appreciation. It uses approaches from six fields. Emanuele brings perspectives from aesthetics, philosophy of art, and psychology of art. Lev contributes perspectives from media theory, digital culture studies, and computer science, as well as his four decades of experience as an artist creating digital media, including recent work with generative AI. This is the first time all these different perspectives have been combined to analyze cultural AI."

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I don't quite understand how it is possible given the challenges of translation — however, these books have left quite an impression on me. Balle's use of language truly feels like a realtime render engine that slowly adds detail and clarity that unfolds like origami in my mind. A bizarrely palpable experience. And gotta love these covers. Gorgeous! https://www.ndbooks.com/book/on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-i/

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Awesome to hear Barnes & Noble is profitable again and plans to open 30 new stores🙌 Will still prefer my local bookstores but this is a positive indicator overall.

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"From ASCII Art to Comic Sans: Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age" (Karin Wagner, 2013) PDF BOOK: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5649/From-ASCII-Art-to-Comic-SansTypography-and-Popular "A fresh and provocative take on typography, computing, and popular culture, viewed through four idiosyncratic typographical phenomena from the digital age. From ASCII Art to Comic Sans offers an original vision of the history of typography and computing in the digital age, viewed through the lens of offbeat typography. We often regard text as pure information and typography as a transparent art form without meaning of its own. In this richly illustrated book, however, Karin Wagner offers a fresh perspective that shows how text is always an image that conveys meaning, and how typography, far from being meaningless, has in fact shaped modern visual and material culture in significant ways."

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Thomas Devaux (from the book: “ATTRITION”)

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I will be doing more with Artletter this year. Artletter = The Arts Short-form and long-form posts involving: • Music • Visual arts • Personal philosophies and lessons I’ve gained through or in connection to the arts • Updates and insights into my personal creative projects • Literary, applied, etc. I’m fascinated with both the universal and the granular. As much as I enjoy sharing these things on social media platforms like this one, posts easily get lost in the timeline. Artletter removes the noise (while sharing the beauty of noise). Artletter is a calm and clean place (where you learn about the radical). Artletter goes straight to your inbox. It’s like an automatic bookmarking service. No noise. No worries about missing anything. No searching. It just calmly waits there for whenever you want to open it. Artletter simply feels better. Join me as I explore and share the intersection of art, thought, and practice. https://lonewick.substack.com/

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Angry Women (1991) Andrea Juno, V. Vale "16 cutting-edge performance artists discuss a wide range of topics - from menstruation, masturbation, vibrators, S&M and spanking to racism, failed Utopias and the death of the Sixties. Armed with total contempt for dogma, stereotype and cliche, these creative visionaries probe deep into our social foundation of taboos, beliefs and totalitarian linguistic contradictions from which spring (as well as thwart) our theories, imaginings, behaviour and dreams." Source: Goodreads.Com

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Dadaglobe Reconstructed reunites over 100 works created for Dadaglobe, Tristan Tzara’s planned but unrealized magnum opus, originally slated for publication in 1921. https://www.scheidegger-spiess.ch/en/produkt/dadaglobe-reconstructed/774

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The first book on my New Year reading list is 'Output' an anthology of computer-generated text from 1953–2023. Edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort.

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Live: Art and Performance (2004) Editor:Adrian Heathfield Publisher:Routledge Leading artists and thinkers assess the relevance of Live Art now and its impact within the visual arts and the broader cultural sphere. Source: Publisher

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