Brian Holmes

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OPEN! KEY TEXTS, 2004-2012
NAI010 PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789462080034 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
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CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE: DISTURBANCES
Foreword by Brian Holmes.
FOUR CORNERS BOOKS
ISBN: 9780956192882 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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OPEN 21: IMMOBILITY
NAI010 PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789056628147 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2011
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OPEN 12: FREEDOM OF CULTURE
NAI010 PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789056625580 | US $34.50
Pub Date: 8/1/2007
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OPEN 08: (IN)VISIBILITY
Edited by Liesbeth Melis and Jorinde Sijdel.
NAI010 PUBLISHERS/SKOR
ISBN: 9789056624330 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2005
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JORDAN CRANDALL: DRIVE
Edited by Peter Weibel.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775711746 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 5/2/2003
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Brian Holmes

Open! Key Texts, 2004-2012

Art, Culture & the Public Domain

Text by Wolfgang Ernst, Brian Holmes, Boris Groys, Sven Lütticken, Saskia Sassen, Jonathan Sassen, Stephan Wright, et al.
Published by nai010 publishers

Since 2004, Open has conducted an interdisciplinary investigation into the changing conditions of public space, fostering new ideas about the public sphere and focusing on the impact of current processes of privatization, mediatization and globalization on society and cultural production. This volume collects key texts from Open, published between 2004 and 2012.

Critical Art Ensemble: Disturbances

Foreword by Brian Holmes.
Published by Four Corners Books

Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. The award-winning group of tactical media practitioners has exhibited and performed in a variety of venues internationally, from the street to the museum to the internet. Disturbances is the first book to assess the group’s 25-year history, examining the environmental, political and bio-technological themes of their various initiatives.
In the publication, each project is presented by the group itself, from their early live multimedia productions; to their development of models of electronic civil disobedience, digital resistance, and contestational biology and ecology; to their most recent tactical media projects.
Disturbances is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics.

Open 21: Immobility

Exploring the Limits of Hypermobility

Text by Wim Nijenhuis, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Florian Schneider, Brian Holmes, Lieven de Cauter, et. al
Published by nai010 publishers

Published twice yearly, Open reflects upon the uses of contemporary public space. This issue of the journal is devoted to issues of mobility and immobility, and explores the ways in which sophisticated communication technologies are stimulating a further increase in physical mobility in urban space, both motorized and otherwise.

Open 12: Freedom of Culture

Regulation and Privatization of Intellectual Property and Public Space

Edited by Jorinde Seijdel. Text by Stephen Wright, Brian Holmes, Dennis Kaspori, Willen van Weelden.
Published by nai010 publishers

The contemporary public domain, the "free" space where culture is produced and exchanged, is under pressure. The exchange and distribution of cultural products ("content" in the form of music, image or text) is easier in digital society, but increasingly hemmed in by corresponding moves towards greater regulation and control, new copyright laws and intellectual property policy. Instead of enjoying a "free culture," we are watching the emergence of what Lawrence Lessig calls "a permission culture." Simultaneously, as an aspect of broader privatization and regulation processes, private entities are appropriating more and more of public culture, and deciding what is made available or publicly accessible. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal, Open, investigates the root causes of these developments, how they interrelate and what the implications are for the "free" production and practice of culture, as well as for the internal dynamics and balance of power in the public domain.

Open 08: (In)Visibility

Beyond the Visible in Contemporary Art, Culture, and the Public Domain

Edited by Liesbeth Melis and Jorinde Sijdel.
Published by nai010 publishers/SKOR

In today's hypervisualized culture, has every message or social agenda been usurped by styling, commerc, and fashion? What position does art occupy in conveying the meanings of everyday design? What position should it occupy? And how do we make meaning--that which is invisible--visible? In Open 8, guest editors Willem van Weelden and Jan van Grunsven introduce this debate. Further examination comes courtesy critic Brian Holmes, who explores (in)visibility as a tactic in art, and Dieter Lesage, who critically examines the proposals by design firm OMA for a new iconography of Europe. Among these and other thought-provoking essays is an account of a round-table discussion centered around legitimating “Art and the Public Space,” courses in designers' academic training, photographic essays and book reviews.

Jordan Crandall: Drive

Edited by Peter Weibel.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Combining traditional film technologies and computerized military programs for tracking, identifying, and targeting, Jordan Crandall's seven-part video installation Drive depicts movement through means that go miles beyond the conventions of cinema. In Drive, as elsewhere today, bodies and physical movements are no longer objects of representation, but collated and processed computer data from thermal imaging machines and night vision optical devices. Movements are no longer depicted; they are tracked. Drive observes the new human relationships that develop through a structure otherwise associated with a hunter observing his prey. Also included in this volume are Crandall's collected projects and writings.