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LINK Editions: 9 months, 8 books

The LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age is proud to  
announce, in collaboration with the iMAL Centre for Digital Cultures &  
Technologies (Bruxelles), the re-publication of the exhibition  
catalogue Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age (2008). The show, curated  
by Yves Bernard and Domenico Quaranta, is a groundbreaking  
contribution to the ongoing debate on the materialization of new media  
art and on its presence and positioning in the wider field of  
contemporary art. The rare book is now available for buying on the  
print-on-demand website Lulu.com, and for free download in .pdf format.

With this book, LINK Editions published 8 books in less than 9 months  
along 2011. The innovative editorial project embraces the print on  
demand philosophy, thus keeping production costs and waste of paper to  
a minimum and circulating its publications on the web. LINK Editions  
will use the print on demand approach to create an accessible, dynamic  
series of essays and pamphlets, but also tutorials, study notes and  
conference proceedings connected to its educational activities. A keen  
advocate of the idea that information wants to be free, LINK Editions  
releases its contents free of charge in digital format  
(.pdf, .ePub, .mobi), and on paper at a price accessible to all. To  
our authors, we offer our editorial and publishing experience, and the  
access to the distribution system (Lulu.com and Amazon.com) in the  
frame of an editorial series of increasing interest. To our readers,  
we offer our contents, as a gift for those who can't, or don't want,  
to buy them.

So far, LINK Editions produced three editorial series: “Clouds”,  
featuring essays on visual arts, architecture, design, media and  
technologies; “In My Computer”, inviting artists to collect and share  
texts, projects, notes, sketches, interviews stored in their computer,  
in order to enlighten their art practice and their view of the world;  
and catalogues, monographs or exhibition catalogues related to the  
curatorial activity of the LINK Center or commissioned by other  
institutions. Together with Holy Fire, catalogues include Gazira  
Babeli, the first and only monograph on the most important artistic  
identity emerged from virtual worlds; and Collect the WWWorld, the  
catalogue of the first exhibition produced by the LINK Center. The  
series “In My Computer” has been launched with a collection of texts  
by Miltos Manetas, a sharp writer as well as an artist and founder of  
the Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. “Clouds” featured so far  
a collection of texts by Domenico Quaranta; Random, by art critic  
Valentina Tanni, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the magazine that  
first introduced new media art in the Italian art world; Post  
Internet, by critic Gene McHugh, and Peer Pressure, by artist and  
critic Brad Troemel, who with a very different style and approach  
analyze the most recent developments of net art and internet culture.


Our catalogue:

Yves Bernard, Domenico Quaranta (eds.), Holy Fire. Art of the Digital  
Age, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Soft cover, 130 pp, English /  
French, € 38.00, ISBN 978-1-4709-3874-1

Domenico Quaranta (ed.), Gazira Babeli, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011.  
With texts by Mario Gerosa, Patrick Lichty, Alan Sondheim. Soft cover,  
92 pp, English, € 28.00, ISBN 978-1-4709-0843-0

Brad Troemel, Peer Pressure, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Preface by  
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org. Soft cover, 138 pp,  
English, € 12.00, ISBN 978-1-4709-1561-2

Gene McHugh, Post Internet, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Soft cover,  
274 pp., English, € 14.00, ISBN 978-1-4478-0389-8

Domenico Quaranta (ed.), Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist  
in the Internet Age, exhibition catalogue, LINK Editions 2011. Texts  
by Josephine Bosma, Gene McHugh, Joanne McNeil. Soft cover, 160 pp.  
Color: ISBN 978-1-4478-3949-1, € 36.00; B/W: ISBN 978-1-4709-0161-5, €  
14.00

Valentina Tanni, Random, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Soft cover, 114  
pages, Italian / English, € 12.00, ISBN: 978-1-4477-1182-7

Miltos Manetas, In My Computer, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Soft  
cover, 102 pp, English, € 12.00, ISBN: 978-1-4477-1939-7

Domenico Quaranta, In Your Computer, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011. Soft  
cover, 180 pp, English, € 12.00, ISBN: 978-1-4467-6021-5


More info and links for free download: http://www.linkartcenter.eu/editions?lang=en

Contacts: info at linkartcenter.eu



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