Author Archive for: ‘Sean Cubitt’

Michel Pastoureau, Black: The History of a Colour (trans Jody Gladding). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-691-13930-2 US$35.00 (hb) 216pp (Review copy supplied by Princeton University Press) Every colour has its history, but few more so than black, and there are few so well placed to describe its trajectory through Western civilisation as Michel Pastoureau, mediaevalist, scholar of color history …

Jeffrey Shaw & Peter Weibel (eds), Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film. ZKM, Karlsruhe; MIT Press, Cambridge MA. 2003. ISBN: 0 262 69286 4 600pp US$39.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) What a lovely book! When it arrived in my department, it seemed no-one could keep their hands off it. Fat, bound in a shiny aluminised cover, …

Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro (eds), Prefiguring Cyberspace: An Intellectual History. Power Institute, Sydney / MIT Press, Cambridge MA. 2002. ISBN 1 86487 491 0 322 pages Au$49.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Power Institute) Reviewing anthologies is tough. No only do you have to at least mention every one of the eighteen essays and ten artist’s statements, …

Jay David Bolter & Diane Gromala, Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 262 02545 0 208 pp US$29.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) The authors of this valuable book have a nice trick on page xi of their introduction. They give a list of some …