"Website Graphics showcases and analyzes forty of the most exciting sites, with hundreds of full-color illustrations of Web pages. From public information to cyber-shopping, on-line marketing to interactive art, every one of these sites is at the forefront of Web design. Chosen and introduced by an international panel of top designers, journalists and writers, the selection reflects the diversity of the World Wide Web; presenting a fasci ..."
"From Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel to David McCauley's The Way Things Work to cutting-edge electronic magazines like HotWired and UnZip, this volume showcases 36 ground-breaking projects selected by an international panel of designers, journalists, and scholars -- setting the standard for inter-active design in the years to come. Hundreds of images from CD-ROMs, Web sites, and computer games orient readers to the brave new world of dig ..."
"From Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel to David McCauley's The Way Things Work to cutting-edge electronic magazines like HotWired and UnZip, this volume showcases 36 ground-breaking projects selected by an international panel of designers, journalists, and scholars -- setting the standard for inter-active design in the years to come. Hundreds of images from CD-ROMs, Web sites, and computer games orient readers to the brave new world of dig ..."
"New technologies are rapidly redefining our notions of privacy. "Beyond Privacy" examines the current trends of both increased governmental collection of personal data and the volunteering of information in the media and on the internet. The book considers the need for new philosophical and practical parameters to understand personal protection and autonomy."
""Open" 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a test case. The contributors consider transparency as fetish and the ideal of the free flow of information."
"I'm reminded of the work of Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets who in a recent
book, City of Collision, describe 'conflict urbanism' as a diagnosis of Jerusalem
and the types of flexible spatial configurations that have produced, in their words,
'a city in a permanent state of destruction and reinvention, hostage to political
planning, collective fear and physical and mental walls'. But, clearly this speaks
more widely about the u ..."
"How can cultural heritage be made accessible without resisting new developments, or turning city and countryside into a museum? What is the impact of the media and digital storage techniques on the social and historic process of remembrance? And what is the role of art in all this? Here, leading authors, artists, architects and theorists answer these and other questions through numerous essays--some photographic, book reviews and projec ..."
"In a world that has become sharply polarized between political viewpoints, artists and other cultural creators have a choice between engaging with the political climate or remaining aloof. Issue 23 of "Open" investigates a third way, a form of autonomy incorporating the ideas of privacy, self-determination and independence in connection with social engagement."
""Power to the imagination!" is a famous May 1968 rallying cry. But today, many of those who invoke the masses--Berlusconi, the Tea Party, Geert Wilders and others--have intentions of a quite different nature. This issue of "Open" addresses myth in the political arena."
"Nicolas Bourriaud Precarious Constructions Answer to Jacques Ranciere on Art
and Politics In the following essay, Nicolas Bourriaud reacts to Jacques
Ranciere's claim that his esthetique rela- tionelle' is little more than a moral
revival in the arts. According to Bourriaud, the significance of the political
programme of contemporary art is its recognition of the precarious condition of
the world. He elaborates this theme in his re ..."
"With the rise of less formal, more personal media outlets like YouTube and blogs, the mass media is no longer our only public forum. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal "Open" investigates these new user-tailored media, asking, "What are the opportunities for artistic practices and critical forms of publicness?""
"Laptops in the park, Bluetooth alerts at the bar, microchips under the dog's skin: wireless technologies like WiFi, GPS, and RFID are changing public space. The world is increasingly traversed by an electronic infrastructure and overlaid with the invisible lines of swiftly evolving alternative cultural and social domains. The traditional physical and social public domain is being supplemented by zones, places and subcultures that transc ..."
"Presenting more than 80 video works, initiatives, organizations and artists from the Netherlands and abroad, Pixels and Places is the first international survey of public video art projects. Art historian Catrien Schreuder situates this phenomenon within an art-historical and theoretical framework, exploring how chance encounters between spectator and video image can transform civic experience."
"Open is a notebook on art and the public domain, published twice a year. Open considers the interaction between art, commissioner, place and public in relation to developments within new media, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and spatial planning. Open adopts a thematic approach for its content. Beyond essays, interviews and columns, it includes book reviews, project documentation, artists' contributions and photographic ..."
"In 2005, Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel produced Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, an exhibition and publication about the role of art and design in democratic processes. Open 24 looks at their representation in the public domain."
"The contemporary public domain, the "free" space where culture is produced and exchanged, is under pressure. The exchange and distribution of cultural products ("content" in the form of music, image or text) is easier in digital society, but increasingly hemmed in by corresponding moves towards greater regulation and control, new copyright laws and intellectual property policy. Instead of enjoying a "free culture," we are watching the e ..."
"Open 23 - Autonomy. New Forms of Freedom and Independence in Art and Culture In a world that has become sharply polarized between political viewpoints, artists and other cultural creators have a choice between engaging with the political climate or remaining aloof. Issue 23 of "Open" investigates a third way, a form of autonomy incorporating the ideas of privacy, self-determination and independence in connection with social engagement. ..."
"Post 9-11, post Iraqi invasion, post (we wish) the War on Terrorism, there is a great deal of interest in safety in the public domain, both in the political realm and among the general public. Individuals and society as a whole are increasingly concerned with protection and security for themselves and their material possessions. These newfound worries have repercussions for the layout, design and management of public and semi-public pla ..."