Production

DATA browser series

The DATA browser book series presents critical texts that explore issues at the intersection of culture, technology and society.

Editorial board:
Geoff Cox; Joasia Krysa; Anya Lewin; Malcolm Miles; Hugo de Rijke; Autonomedia.

Advisory board:
Mary Flanagan (USA); Ryszard W. Kluszczynski (PL); Piotr Krajewski (PL); Esther Leslie (UK); Armin Medosch (A/UK); Christiane Paul (D/USA); Chin-tao Wu (Taiwan).

Published by Autonomedia, New York.
Further information, http://www.data-browser.net.

Date:
2004

The DATA browser book series provides a critical response to current ideas and practices in digital art and technology. We aim to develop this burgeoning field of inquiry by raising new questions about emerging modes of production, immateriality and the formation of subjectivities, while continuing to address older questions and critical methodologies. Much of the focus will be to situate contemporary practices within a historical and social agenda. The series takes theory or criticism not as a fixed set of tools or practices, but rather as a cumulative and evolving chain of ideas, that also recognises the conditions of its own making. In this context, the term “browser” is useful in pointing to the framing device through which most data is now delivered over the information networks. A conventional understanding of “browsing” may suggest surface readings and the passive consumption of material. In contrast, the series celebrates the potential of browsing for dynamic interpretation and “detournement”, the rearrangement of existing material into new configurations.

Contributors to the series:
0100101110101101.ORG & [epidemiC]; The Institute for Applied Autonomy; Giorgio Agamben; Josephine Berry Slater; Konrad Becker; William Bowles; Bureau of Inverse Technology; Carbon Defense League & Conglomco Media Conglomeration; Geoff Cox; Adam Chmielewski; Florian Cramer; Jordan Crandall; Nick Dyer-Witheford; etoy; Matthew Fuller; Alexander R. Galloway & Eugene Thacker; Gameboyzz Orchestra; glorious ninth; Olga Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin; Beryl Graham; George Grinsted; Eva Grubinger; Marina Grzinic; Harwood; Brian Holmes; Daniela Ingruber; Margarete Jahrmann; Jaromil; carlos katastrofsky; Martin Knahl; Norbert Koppensteiner; Piotr Krajewski; Joasia Krysa; Esther Leslie; Marysia Lewandowska & Neil Cummings; Anya Lewin; Jacob Lillemose; low-fi; Armin Medosch; Naeem Mohaiemen; Franziska Nori; Matteo Pasquinelli; Mukul Patel; Christiane Paul; Julian Priest & James Stevens; Raqs Media Collective; Redundant Technology Initiative; Mirko Tobias Schäfer; Trebor Scholz; Pit Schultz; Grzesiek Sedek; Luis Silva; Wolfgang Sützl; Tiziana Terranova; Jeremy Valentine; Marina Vishmidt; McKenzie Wark; The Yes Men.