[spectre] Book-launch: ART AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA by Edward Shanken, April 17

[Marieke Istha]

ART AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

BOOK-LAUNCH // DISCUSSION // PERFORMANCE // CELEBRATION

NETHERLANDS MEDIA ART INSTITUTE
Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam
Friday, 17 April, 2009, 5pm, free entrance, please let us know if you 
want to come: info at nimk.nl

To celebrate the publication of Art and Electronic Media, the most 
comprehensive and authoritative survey of new media art, NIMk will host 
the international book-launch.

• Edward Shanken, the author, will share insights and highlights, answer 
questions, and autograph copies of the book, for sale at 37% discount 
(cash only)
• Annet Dekker will lead a discussion with the author and the audience
• Yolande Harris (NIMk resident artist, 2008) will perform new 
electronic music
• DJ Sniff will spin yarns of digital vinyl during the reception

Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon, 2009) demonstrates the formidable 
history of artistic uses of electronic media. Over 200 artists and 
institutions from more than thirty countries are represented. It enables 
the rich genealogy of art and electronic media to be seen – literally 
and figuratively – as central to the histories of art and visual culture.

Praise for Art and Electronic Media:
• “It is a superb work of scholarship, marked by clarity, subtlety, and 
comprehensive vision. Art and Electronic Media does us all a great 
service. More than any other publication that I know of, it will bring 
our field of practice into the mainstream of art.” - Roy Ascott
• “It’s the best book of its kind” – Casey Reas
• “This book will be quoted for decades to come” – Eduardo Kac

Edward Shanken is Universitair Docent, New Media, University of 
Amsterdam. Expert on historic and emerging new media practices in visual 
culture. http://artexetra.com

Annet Dekker is program manager at Virtueel Platform and former head of 
exhibitions and education at NIMk. Also an independent curator and Ph.D. 
candidate at Goldsmiths College.

Yolande Harris is a composer and artist working with sound, image and 
space in a technologically extended environment. Artist-in-residence at 
NIMk in 2007-8. http://yolandeharris.net

DJ Sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a turntablist and researcher/curator 
in music technology. Artistic Director of STEIM, Studio for 
Electro-Instrumental Music. http://www.djsniff.com/

For more information on the book, see 
http://artelectronicmedia.wordpress.com

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
T 020 6237101
F 020 6244423
http://www.nimk.nl