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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"Net Arte no Triangulo das Bermudas / Net Art in the Bermuda Triangle" (ed. Sofia Ponte, 2025) A book on early Portuguese Net Art Download here [PT / ENG] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FsAUMO5DRseGbVrwht2ZjFSsU4_DL7lo/view In addition to the content that frames the early techno-artistic context in the country, it includes digital art projects by Beatriz Albuquerque, Daniel Pinheiro & Annie Abrahams, Pizz Buin, Rui Torres, Susana Mendes Silva, wr3ad1ng d1g1t5, Luísa Ribas & João Cruz, Mário Cameira, Rudolfo Quintas, Alice dos Reis, @c & Lia / @c & Rodrigo Carvalho, Joana Chicau and Luís Fernandes.

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The book is in my hands. 💪🙌☀️✌️🙏🥳

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Shirase and Dokan were two of the most iconic Spanish magazines of the 2000s, dedicated to manga, video games, and Japanese culture. Golden age for culture

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An exhilarating and playful three part study of this elusive and endlessly fascinating figure, published to mark the centenary of Satie's death. Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman, 224 pages

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A nice side effect of the recent trend in the digital tokenisation of art is that it has made the paperfication of creativity all the more appealing. I am a fairly big collector of DIY works from the small press scene and I love these risographed zines. CRUDEX (x3 issues), Al White, 2023 https://www.crudex.zone/ More impression below.

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Blast from the past: Old RPG rulebooks and modules from my teens... I was reminded of my years playing AD&D and tabletop RPGs by @sinusoidalsnail posting an old magazine I used to own. That 1986 "Gamma World" is a deep cut, a proper TSR release but I could never find more materials for it. "Cyberpunk" (1988) was cool as hell, though. 😎

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Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century (Alessandro Ludovico, 2024) . Open Access: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5716/Tactical-PublishingUsing-Senses-Software-and . " In Tactical Publishing, a sequel to Post-Digital Print, Alessandro Ludovico explores the forces driving this historical phase, highlighting the tremendous opportunities it presents. Our task, he believes, is to develop an alternative publishing system that transcends the dichotomy between paper and digital media. He focuses first on the two activities on which publishing is premised—reading and writing (with an emphasis onwriting machines and post-truth in the latter)—and then deconstructs the concept, proposing alternative strategies inspired by recent practices and unconventional uses of technology."

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Nature Printing 👁️‍🗨️ 🍀 'Nature printing is a printing process, developed in the 18th century, that uses the plants, animals, rocks and other natural subjects to produce an image. The subject undergoes several stages to give a direct impression onto materials such as lead, gum, and photographic plates, which are then used in the printing process. ' - wiki The most exquisite example of this technique can be found in Henry Bradbury's book The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. 👁️‍↓👁️‍ https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002807086/page/XXXIII/mode/thumb?view=theater

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Mo(u)rning (re)reading The New Nihilism - Peter Lamborn Wilson [2018] [In the museum] ‘everyone wore headphones that told them what to think and when to move on, and the silence was sepulchral. Culture itself, it seems, is a form of mourning’ Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey) left us dozens of books of pointed commentary on (the flaws of) modern culture. Some of his ideas, infused with anarchism and hermetic philosophy seem more pertinent today than they ever were. 👊

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One of the more esoteric books in my library is MCV which i picked up from The Library of Babel thanks to Christian Bök. 'Christian Bök has rediscovered volumes in the hexagonal tenements of the Library of Babel. The ﬁve books conform to the speciﬁcations described by Borges: 410 pages, with 40 lines of text per page and with 80 characters of text per line. Each of the original editions has appeared in print, limited to 25 copies for sale, after which the books have vanished forever.' I am happy to own one of the few physical copies Christian made of MCV. I also like that MCV suggests to me MVC (Model View Controller), the well-known software and programming pattern. Digital copies of the 5 books can be found here. https://www.umlautmachine.net/writings/the-library-of-babel

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👀 Available for pre-order! U N B O U N D by Karel Martens ROMA 492 / 216p / 17 × 24 cm / € 39.80 Unbound accompanies Karel Martens’ upcoming solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The publication brings together a wide-ranging body of work Karel made and collected over the entire span of his decades-long career. Containing works from the show, collaged, overprinted and juxtaposed with elements found around his studio, the book balances between being an artist book and a catalog. With texts by Thomas Castro, curator of the exhibition, and Rein Wolfs, director of the Stedelijk Museum. Pre-order here: https://www.romapublications.org/Roma251-500.html

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Ways of Being Alive, Baptiste Morizot, 2022 Rethinking our relationships with other living beings

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Diagrammatic Writing, Johanna Drucker, 2023 The semantic system of graphical relations The graphical expression of semantic relations

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'Alice & Bob After Clay' - by Joan Heemskerk With this book Heemskerk expresses her fascination for quantum computing and for language, building upon her decades-long work both individually and as half of the duo JODI (with Dirk Paesmans) Softcover, published in 2025 https://underbelly.nu/product/joan-heemskerk-alice-bob-after-clay/

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