Product Description: This book presents Catalan artist Antoni Abad's (born 1956) project megafone.net, created in 2004, a website that allows people from such diverse groups as young gypsies in León and sex workers in Madrid, to upload video, photo, audio and text and articulate community issues.

Product Description: This companion volume to the first major retrospective of Dara Birnbaum s work is also a comprehensive book on the groundbreaking artist. Since the 1970s Dara Birnbaum has been studying and making art about mass media. Her videos and installations often focus on the way we look at political events and how we are influenced and manipulated by images, television, and the media in general...read more

Product Description: Begun in 1979, the annual Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology and Society is one of the world's foremost media art festivals, perennially on the hunt for innovation. Repair--the theme of the 2010 festival--invites experts in a range of fields to imagine alternative futures, tackling pressing issues of climate change, financial crisis and surveillance practices, among others...read more

Product Description: Combining traditional film technologies and computerized military programs for tracking, identifying, and targeting, Jordan Crandall's seven-part video installation Drive depicts movement through means that go miles beyond the conventions of cinema...read more

Based on work produced over the past quarter-century at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, this stunning retrospective highlights the work of Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken, Louise Bourgeois, Roy Lichtenstein, Chris Burden, Faith Ringgold, Yinka Shonibare, Robert Venturi, and other outstanding artists. (Fine Arts)

Product Description: Comfort accompanies an exhibition of work by eight of today's most engaging international artists: Franz Ackermann, Peter Land, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Gregor Schneider and Andrea Zittel. Through a variety of media and styles ranging from painting, photography and video to installation, furniture design and architecture, this crop of young artists from around the world offers a range of possibilities for making sense of the often impersonal and increasingly fragmented terrain of the postmodern world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Exhibition catalog. Illustrated. Essays by David A. Ross, Aaron Betsky, Benjamin Weil, Janet Bishop, Kathleen Forde, David Toop, Adrienne Gagnon and Erik Davis. Artists include Kevin Appel, Jeremy Blake, Janet Cardiff, Char Davies, Brian Eno, Andreas Gursky, John Maeda, Matthew Ritchie, Sarah Sze and others...read more

An investigation of the consequences of a society becoming inhabitants of information space explains how it is radically altering the public sphere, the private sphere, and the possibilities of creativity in the networked sphere. Original. (view table of contents)

A Guggenheim Museum Publication Accompanying the first American retrospective of the Korean-born multi-media artist's work since 1982, this volume brings together the major artworks that define Nam June Paik's singular achievement. Through his sculptures, installations, videotapes, and projects for television, Paik has recognized and realized the potential of video to become an artistic medium. Published to accompany an exhibition opening in February at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, this book is sure to draw major media attention. Through its 300 illustrations, and an essay by Guggenheim curator John G. Hanhardt-supplemented by a selection of Paik's own writings-this volume allows art lovers to experience the numerous ways in which Paik has treated the electronic moving image and expanded the definition of sculpture and installation art over the past four decades. 300 illustrations in full color, 8 x 11" JOHN G. HANHARDT is senior curator of Film and Media Arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. JON IPPOLITO is assistant curator of Media Arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Feb. 11-Apr. 22, 2000

Traces the development of Nam June Paik's career in avante-garde art, examines his use of contemporary video technology, and analyzes his videotapes, sculpture, compositions, and performances