May 02, 2007
A Handbook for Coding Cultures
Platforms for Communication and Creativity
A Handbook for Coding Cultures provides a lasting companion to the inspiring projects and topical currents of thought explored in the Coding Cultures Symposium and Concept Lab. Six invited writers and groups from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, England, Italy and Hong Kong share their experiences of building imaginative digital tools, social networks, open labs and internet-based knowledge platforms for communication and creativity. Complementing these commissioned texts are contributions from our guest artists from Canada, England and Jamaica. Artist statements from Symposium speakers completes this snapshot of contemporary cultural practice.
Keeping true to the traditions of the free circulation of knowledge and culture, the Coding Cultures Handbook is available free of charge. A limited print edition of the Handbook was launched at the Coding Cultures Symposium on 9 March 2007. It was commissioned by Francesca da Rimini and d/Lux/MediaArts.
The complete Handbook can be viewed or downloaded below. Alternatively, essays can also be downloaded individually ... and where available, a link to the Author's online essay is also provided.
A Handbook for Coding Cultures (in pdf) (3MB) (full version)
A Handbook for Coding Cultures (zipped ) (2.8MB) (full version)
List of Contents :
Lisa Havilah (AUS) - Foreword
David Cranswick (AUS) - Preface
Francesca da Rimini (AUS): Introduction: Archipelagos of open code and free culture
Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett, Furtherfield (England): Do It With Others (DIWO): contributory media in the Furtherfield Neighbourhood
Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, (Belgium): Open ended processes, open space technologies and open laboratories
Andrew Lowenthal, (AUS): Free Beer vs Free Media
Leandro Fossá, (Brazil) in collaboraton with Claudio Prado (Brazil): Digital Culture: The jump from the 19th to the 21st Century
Lam Oi Wan, (Hong Kong): What is that Star? Media cultural action in the claiming of space
Agnese Trocchi (Italy): Shivers of sharing
Alice Angus and Giles Lane, Proboscis (UK): Cultures of Listening
mervin Jarman (Jamaica) in collaboration with Sonia Mills: mongrelstreet: the culture of codes
Camille Turner (Canada): Representing in Digital Space
David S. Vadiveloo (AUS): A time for empowerment or a new digital divide?
Tallstoreez Productionz (AUS): Returning the Gaze: the hero-project, how to join politics, youth empowerment and entertainment
Christopher Saunders (AUS): Big hART - a model for social and cultural change
Lena Nahlous, Ben Hoh and Trey Thomas (aka MC Trey) (AUS): A presentation about why ICE exists and how it works
Posted by jo at May 2, 2007 12:06 PM
