Kluitenberg, Eric, ed. Book of Imaginary Media: excavating the dream of the ultimate communication medium. Rotterdam: NAi Pubishers, 2006.
Elsaesser, Thomas, ed.. Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative. London : BFI, 1990.
Friedman, Ken (ed.). The Fluxus Reader. West Sussex: Academy Editions, 1999.
Grau, Oliver, ed.. Media Art Histories. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: the MIT Press, 2007.
Higgins, Dick. Horizons: the Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. [*See especially Chapter 2: "Intermedia," pp. 19-28]
Kahn, Douglas. “John Cage: Silence and Silencing.” “The Parameters of All Sounds: Loud Sounds; Conceptual Sounds.” Noise Water Meat: a History of Sound in the Arts. Cambridge , MA : MIT, 1999.
Kelly, Michael; Jones, Tony; and Forbes, Jill. "Modernization and Avant-gardes (1945-1967)," in French cultural studies : an introduction (ed. Jill Forbes and Michael Kelly). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 140-82.
Kluitenberg, Eric, ed. Book of Imaginary Media: excavating the dream of the ultimate communication medium. Rotterdam: NAi Pubishers, 2006.
Le Grice, Malcolm. “Towards Temporal Economy” [1980]. Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age. London: BFI, 2001. Pp. 184-211.
Lombardo, Vincenzo; Valle, Andrea; Nunnari, Fabrizio; Girodana, Francesco; and Arghinenti, Andrea. "Archaeology of Multimedia" (2006) [view a pdf copy]
Morrissette, Bruce. “Surfaces and Structures in Robbe-Grillet’s Novels.” Two Novels by Robbe-Grillet. New York : Grove Press, 1965. Pp. 1-10.
Mundy, Jennifer, ed.. Surrealism: Desire Unbouned.
Pascoe, David. Peter Greenaway: Museums and Moving Images. London : Reaktion Books, 1997.
Pollock, Griselda. Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art.
Robbe-Grillet, Alain. For a New Novel: essays on fiction. Evanston , Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 1989.
Ruiz, Raul. Poetics of Cinema. Paris : Dis Voir, 1995.
Westermann, Mariet, ed. Anthropologies of Art. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005. [**See especially Anna Grimshaw's "Reconfiguring the Ground:Art and the Visualization of Anthropology," 195-220.]
Visuality
Bazin, Andre. What is Cinema?Volume 1 & 3. Essays selected and translated by Hugh Gray. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1969-71.
Benjamin, Walter. “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.” (1936) [**This essay has been anthologized in various books and publications.]
Bordwell, David. “Parametric Narratives.” Narration in the Fiction Film. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press: 1985.
_________. Visual Style in Cinema. Frankfurt : Verlog der Autoren, 2001.
Brougher, Kerry; Strick, Jeremy; Wiseman, Ari; and Zilczer, Judith, 2005: Visual Music: synesthesia in art and music since 1900. Thames and Hudson.
Camper, Fred. "Stan Brakhage." Proceedings for the 24th Hong Kong International Film Festival (2004). Hong Kong: IFF. Pp. 201-5.
Centre Pompidou. Isaac Julien (espace trios-cent-quinze #315: nouveaux médias) Paris: Centre Prompidou.
Dalle Vacche, Angela. Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1996.
Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1: the Movement-image; translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
__________. Cinema 2: the Time Image; translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory; edited and translated by Jay Leyda. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1977.
Elliot, Bridget; Purdy, Anthony. Peter Greenaway: Architecture and Allegory. Chichester , West Sussex : Academy Editions, 1997.
Gunning, Tom. "'Primitive' Cinema: A Frame-up? Or the Trick's on Us," in Cinema Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter, 1989). 3-12.
Gunning, Tom. D.W. Griffith and the Origin of American Narrative Film: the Early Years at Biograph.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. "On Visuality," in Journal of Visual Culture 5:1 (2006). 53-79.
Mitchell, W.J.T.. “There Are No Visual Media,” in Journal of Visual Culture 4:2 (2005). 257-66.
Wollheim, Richard. On Formalism and its Kinds (Sobre el formalisme I els seus tipus); published for conference lectures at the Tapies. Barcelona: Fundacio Antoni Tapies.
Burns, Carol J.; and Kahn, Andrea, eds. Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies.
From cinema & video
[DVD set] Treasures from American Film Archives (50 preserved films; 1893-1985); curated by Scott Simmon; produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation (2000)
[DVD set] Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-garde Film 1894-1941 (155 films); Anthology Film Archive (2005)
[DVD] The Early Films of Peter Greenaway 1 (History of the Avant-garde series)
[DVD] The Early Films of Peter Greenaway 2 (History of the Avant-garde series)
[DVD] European Short Films *for general reference on short films and cinema; with audio commentaries
[DVD] British Short Films *for general reference on short films and cinema; with audio commentaries
[DVD/CD] Opus Pia (Takagi Masakatsu)
*(30 minutes); for the exhibition “pia” at Pepper’s Gallery in Ginza , Tokyo , curated by Minoru Hatanaka ( July 30, 2001 )
*released by CD and DVD separately: CD with lots of piano and natural environmental sounds mixed for computer; DVD contains video: 11 movies from [pia] series
[DVD] Bill Viola: the Eye of the Heart (a film by Mark Kidel) [Centre Pompidou] *with interviews with Viola and extracts from some of his major works…
[DVD] INDEX (DVD edition)
001 – “Kurt Kren: action films”
002 – “Kurt Kren: structural films”
003 – “Granular Synthesis: remixes for single screen”
004 – “Valie Export: 3 experimental short films”
005 – “Gržinić/Šmid: a selection of video works 1990-2003”
006 – “Mara Mattuschka: iris scan”
007 – “Volks Stöhnende Knochenschau: a historic video news reel project”
008 – “Peter Tscherkassky: films from a dark room”
009 – “Constanze Ruhm: video works from 1999-2004”
010 – “Lisl Ponger: traveling light”
011 – “Manfred Neuwirth: [MA] trilogy”
012 – “Gustav Deutsch: film ist. [1-12] DVD version”
013 – “Gertrude Moser-Wagner: concept & coincidence”
014 – “Sonic Fiction: synaesthetic videos from Austria ”
015 – “Oliver Ressler: this is what democracy looks like! Disobbedienti”
024 – “Peter Weibel: Depiction is a crime; Video Works 1969-1975"
Web-site: www.index-dvd.at
Sound Works
Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. University of Minnesota Press, 1985.
Battier, Marc. "What the GRM brought to music: from musique concrète to acousmatic music"; in Organized Sound 12(3), 2007. 188-206.
Cage, John. Silence. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1961.
Cage, John; Tobey, Mark; Graves, Morris. Sound of the Inner Eye. Tacoma, Wash.: Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, c2002.
Cardiff, Janet. The Walk Book. Vienna: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2002.
Chion, Michel. Audio-vision, sound on screen. Columbia University Press, 1990.
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. Janet Cardiff: a Survey of Works including Collaborations with George Bures Miller.
Delalande, François. "The Technological Era of 'sound': a challenge for musicology and a new range of social practices"; in Organized Sound 12(3), 2007. 251-8.
Drobnick, Jim (ed.). Aural Cultures. YYZ Books, 2004.
Emmerson, Simon (ed.). The Language of Electroacoustic Music. Palgrave Macmillan, 1986.
Johnson, James H.. Listening in Paris: a Cultural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Kahn, Douglas. Noise Water Meat: a History of Sound in the Arts. Cambridge, Mass.; London, UK: MIT Press, 1999.
Kahn, Douglas; & Whitehead, Gregory (ed.). Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-garde. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.
LaBelle, Brandon. Background Noise, Perspectives on Sound Art. New York, Continuum, 2006.
Leitner, Bernard, Sound:Space. Cantz, 1998.
Minard, Robin. Sound Environments: Music for Public Spaces. Berlin: Akademie der Kunste, 1993.
Nattiez, Jean Jaques, Music and Discourse. Princeton University Press, 1990.
Neubauer, John. The Emancipation of Music from Language. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Norman, Katharine. Sounding Art. Ashgate Publishing, 2004.
Ouellette, Fernand. Edgard Varese. London: Calder & Boyars, 1973.
Roads, Curtis. Microsound. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
Russolo, Luigi. The Art of Noises (1916); trans. Barclay Brown. New York: Pendragon Press, 1986.
Schafer, Murray. Soundscape. Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Destiny Books, 1977.
Schulz, Bernd (ed.). Resonances, Aspects of sound Art. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2002.
Serafine, Marie Louise. Music as Cognition, the Development of Thought in Sound. Columbia University Press, 1988.
Strunk, Oliver. Source readings in Music History, Volume 7, The Twentieth Century. W. W. Norton, 1998.
Sterne, jonathan. The Audible Past. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003.
Thompson, Emily. The Soundscape of Modernity. MIT Press, 2002.
Toop, David. Ocean of Sound: aether talk, ambient sound and imaginary worlds. London, New York: Serpent’s Tail, 1995.
Wishart, Trevor. On Sonic Art. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.
[CD] An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music: second a-chronology 1936-2003 [Tate Modern] *sound work // contains rare or unpublished destructured and electronic music by various artists // includes 40-page critical and biographical notes //
[CD] An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music: third a-chronology 1962-2004 [Tate Modern] *sound work // contains rare or unpublished destructured and electronic music by various artists // includes 48-page critical and biographical notes
[CD] Legacies: works from BEAST vol. 2 [Tate Modern] *“sound sculpture: cinema for the ear” series // celebrating 20 years of BEAST
[music CD] Morton Feldman: “Rothko Chapel” & “Why Patterns?” *music // for personal interest
[music CD] Pierre Henry’s Dracula in 8 episodes, 2002
[CD] An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music: second a-chronology 1936-2003
[CD] An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music: third a-chronology 1962-2004
[DVD] Touch the Sound: a sound journey with Evelyn Glennie (a documentary by Thomas Riedelsheimer)
Generative Arts & Systems + Experimental literature :
Aarseth, Espen J., 1997: Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1971: Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire ; translated with a critical introduction by Roger Shattuck (first translation 1948). New York: A New Directions Book.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Bruce Morrissette, Diane Kirkpatrick, Karlis Racevskiks, and David Leach, Generative Literature and Generative Art: New Essays (York Press, 1983).
Barthes, Roland. “Objective Literature: Alain Robbe-Grillet.” Two Novels by Robbe-Grillet. New York : Grove Press, 1965. Pp. 11-26.
__________. Sade/Fourier/Lyola.
Battier, Marc, 2007: “What the GRM brought to music: from musique concrete to acousmatic music.” Organized Sound 12(3): 189-202.
Bill Hammel, "An essay on patterns in musical composition transformations, mathematical groups, and the nature of musical substance," at: http://graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/MUSIC/compose.html
Borges, Luis. "The Garden of Forking Paths" [to download a copy of the story in English, click: http://www.cybergrain.com/remediality/borges.pdf]
Burroughs, William S., 1986: “Cutting Up Characters” in The Adding Machine: Selected Essays. New York: Arcade Publishing. Pp. 189-191.
Celestino Soddu's introduction to the Generative Art Conferences: http://www.generativeart.com read on January 21, 2005 .
Celestino Soddu, “The Design of Morphogenesis: an Experimental Research about the Logical Procedures in Design Processes” (DEMETRA Magazine, #1, 1994)
http://www.generativedesign.com/demetra2.htm
Canguilhem, George, 1992: “Machine and Organism,” in Incorporations, ed. Jonathan Crary et al. Zone. Pp. 45-67.
Cilliers, Paul, 1998: “Self-organization in Complex Systems,” in Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems. Routledge, New York. Pp. 89-111.
Cosseboom, Roger, 2004: "The Space of Language," at http://www.thesocietyforpotentialliteratures.com/html/043.html
Delalande, Francois, 2007: “The technological era of ‘sound’: a challenge for musicology and a new range of social practices.” Organized Sound 12(3): 251-8.
Douglas, J. Yellowlees, 2001: The End of Books – Or Books without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Pp. 27-36.
Emanuel, Lynn, 1998: “Language Poets, New Formalists and the Techniquization of Poetry, ” in Poetry after Modernism, ed. Robert McDowell. Story Line Press. Pp. 45-67.
Hesse, Carla, 1996: “Books in Time,” in The Future of Books, ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. Pp. 21-33.
Higginson, William J., 1985: “The Haiku Movement in English ” (chapter 5); “ The Form of Haiku ” (Chapter 8), in The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku. Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York, London.
Johnson, Steven, 2001: Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software.London: Penguin Books.
Kudielka, Robert (ed.): Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art [ Museum of Modern Art, Cologne , Germany ] *anthology with contribution from various writers // good for discussion on "serialism"
Kunstmaschinen Maschinenkunst [Art Machines Machine Art]. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany 2007.
**“Art Machines Machine Art: the Spirit in the Machine” (Katharina Dohm and Heinz Stahlhut) (17-25)
**“Artist Becomes Machine Becomes Artist” (Justin Hoffmann) (26-35)
Le Lionnais, Francois: The Two Manifestos; translated by Warren Motte Jr..
Landow, George P.: “Other Convergences: Intertexutality, Multivocality, and Decenteredness”
"Luis Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths" (a resourceful site on Borges and his experimental works) at http://www.themodernword.com/Borges/
Morrissette, Bruce. “Post-Modern Generative Fiction: Novel and Film,” Critical Inquiry , 2, No. 2 (Winter 1975), pp. 253-63.
Morrissett, Bruce et al, Intertextual Assemblage in Robbe-Grillet: from Topology to the Golden Triangle ( York Press, 1979).
Murray, Janet H., 2001: Hamlet on the Holodeck: the Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Queneau, Raymond, The Foundations of Literature: “ First Group of Axioms ” (translated by Harry Mathews)
Queneau, Raymond, The Foundations of Literature: “ Second Group of Axioms ” (translated by Harry Mathews)
Queneau, Raymond, 1998: “Potential Literature,” in OuLiPo: a Primer of Potential Literature, ed. Warren Motte Jr.. Dalkey Archive Press.
Roberts, Eric S., 1986: Thinking Recursively.
Shattuck, Roger, 1971: Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire. New Directions Books, New York. Pp. 18-29.
Sobieszek, Robert A. 1996: Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts. Los Angeles, New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Thames and Hudson
Ward, Adrian: “How I Drew One of My Pictures: or, the Authorship of Generative Art”
(New version) http://www.generativeart.com/99/0399.htm
(Old version) http://www.generative.net/papers/autoshop/index.html
Generative Art web resources:
http://www.generative.net/
http://www.generativedesign.com/
http://www.generativeart.com
http://www.levitated.net/ (Jared Tarbell's site)
http://www.thesocietyforpotentialliteratures.com/html/043.html
Dakadaka (Casey Reas): http://www.groupc.net/work.php?section=software&work=dakadaka_s
Generative poetics: http://dataisnature.com/?p=82
Estrategias Generativas (Paul Prudence): http://www.transphormetic.com/intro.htm
Jim Andrews' links page at http://vispo.com/misc/links.htm (Flash work engaged with some intensity in language)
