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Publication
Digital Folklore: To computer users, with love and respect
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Technical innovations shape only a small part of computer and network culture. It doesn't matter much who invented the microprocessor, the mouse, TCP/IP or the World Wide Web; nor does it matter what ideas were behind these inventions. What matters is who uses them. Only when users start to express themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to culture at large.
Users' endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.
As the first book of its kind, this elaborately designed reader contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement …
(Source: www.digitalfolklore.org)
Title
Digital Folklore: To computer users, with love and respect
Editors
Olia Lialina [&] Dragan Espenschied
Graphic design
Manuel Bürger
Year
2015
Language
English (in some parts German)
Size
17 × 25 cm, 288 pages, with poster
Publisher
merz [&] solitude, Merz Akademie
ISBN
978-3-937982-25-0
Price
34,50 € +Shipping | Out of stock
Texts and projects by Cory Arcangel, Julia Böger, Manuel Bürger, Helene Dams, Dragan Espenschied, Jörg Frohnmayer, Marc Grimm, Christopher Heller, Yunchul Kim, Dennis Knopf, Stefan Krappitz, Florian Kröner, Tobias Leingruber, Olia Lialina, Leo Merz, Bernadette Neuroth, o+ro, johannes p osterhoff, Isabel Pettinato, Michael Ruß, Alexander Schlegel, Theo Seemann, Bert Schutzbach, Siegfried Zielinsky
As part of
Digital Folklore
25. July 2015
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1. November 2015