Connexions: art réseaux media — Guide to New Media Art

Annick Bureaud and Nathalie Magnan's book "Connexions: art réseaux media" analyzes new technologies in four parts. The first section, "net-art," examines tactical media trends through interviews with Alexei Shulgin, Heath Bunting, and Olia Lialina, touching on hacker desires and copyleft issues. "Communication-réseau" invokes Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere, drawing on historical texts by McLuhan, Forest, Costa, Ascott, Couchot, and Kac, and explores tele-action and telepresence. "Machines-code" and "data-corps-territoires" take an epistemological approach, reprising Deleuze's "Postscript on Societies of Control," Vannevar Bush's 1945 memex concept, and Alan Turing's 1936 computer design, linking mathematical communication theory (1949), virtual systems history, and network culture. The book argues that new techniques establish new narrativities through virtual worlds building unprecedented social spaces where internet users, scholars, writers, and filmmakers will increasingly recognize themselves.