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of books published by Open Humanities Press in 2025...</span></p>
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publication of <i>Barbarian Currents: Half a Century of
Brazilian Media Arts</i>, edited by Gabriel Menotti and German
Alfonso Nunez<span></span></span></p>
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Press books, <i>Barbarian Currents </i>is available open
access (= it can be downloaded for free): <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">Contemporary art and
media art do not exist in separate worlds. In 20th century
Brazil, technology was a key element of artistic imagination.
Oswald de Andrade, the father of Brazilian ‘cannibal’ modernism,
envisioned the Americas as a cradle of a new society populated
by <i>technicised barbarians</i>. The country’s post-war
avant-gardes embraced computers and electronic media as
transformative forces, capable of realising the promise of a
nation in search of its modern identity. <i>Barbarian Currents</i>
explores this history through a sociological lens, examining the
many intriguing circumstances that have shaped the new forms of
cultural and artistic expression. <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">This pioneering
anthology brings together the voices of artists, critics and
curators who played a pivotal role in the emergence of
technological arts in post-war Brazil. The documents, most of
which have been translated into English for the first time,
remind us that ‘alternative’ art histories are simply the
flipside of dominant narratives. They encourage us to look
beyond the lens of Western exceptionalism and reframe our
understanding of cultural histories worldwide.<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext"> rigorously illuminates
the way in which Brazil’s relationship with technological
progress, modernism and utopia shaped a distinctive trajectory
for its media arts. The book offers readers unprecedented
insight into how Brazil’s media art scene evolved both within
and against the global art world. This is an essential resource
for understanding the special character of technological art in
the Global South.<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">José-Carlos Mariátegui</span></i><span
style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">, Founder – Director of
Alta Tecnología Andina, Lima<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">This unique book fills
an essential gap in media art studies. Compiling an extensive
directory of Brazilian artistic production, it reconstructs,
through the perspectives of its leading actors, an important
history marked by creative experiments between art and industry
post-World War II.<span></span></span></p>
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Beiguelman</span></i><span
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Paulo FAU-USP<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">Gabriel Menotti is
Associate Professor and chair of the Screen Cultures and
Curatorial Studies graduate program at Queen’s University,
Ontario. He also works as an independent curator in the field of
media practices. His most recent books are <i>Practices of
Projection: Histories and Technologies</i> (2020, co-edited
with Virginia Crisp) and <i>Movie Circuits: Curatorial
Approaches to Cinema Technology</i> (2019). <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">German Alfonso Nunez is
a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Department of
Multimedia, Media and Communication at the State University of
Campinas (Unicamp). His work focuses on the Brazilian artistic
field of the post-World War II era. Recently, he worked as a
researcher at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, where he
organised and edited the commemorative book for the Museum’s
75th anniversary.<span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">The book is published
as part of the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series edited by Joanna
Zylinska: </span><span style="font-size:11pt"><a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/"
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a>
Blog: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/</a>
Latest:
Book: Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/</a>
Journal issue: Ecologies of Dissemination issue of PARSE Journal #21 - Summer 2025, edited by Eva Weinmayr and Femke Snelting: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination">https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination</a>. (I'm one of the contributors to this experimental issue which emphasizes collective over individual authorship.)
Video: 'Liquidate AI Art', Computer Arts Society: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art">https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art</a>
Talk: 'The Independent Intellectual vs Posting Zero and the Dead Internet': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/12/2/the-independent-intellectual-vs-posting-zero-and-the-dead-in.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/12/2/the-independent-intellectual-vs-posting-zero-and-the-dead-in.html</a>
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