Patrick Frank Boeken

Exploring the intersection of art and technology, the book recounts the development of Art1, a pioneering computer program created in 1968 at the University of New Mexico. Driven by Richard Williams and inspired by Charles Mattox, this initiative aimed to unify the seemingly disparate worlds of avant-garde art and complex scientific theories. Frederick Hammersley’s prolific output using Art1 is highlighted, alongside 50 illustrations by notable artists. Interviews with key figures provide insight into Art1's significant influence on early digital creativity and its lasting legacy.

The book explores the influential artists of the 1980s, emphasizing their pioneering use of digital technology, which resonates with contemporary issues. It highlights Joseph Nechvatal's expressive digital imagery and virus integration, Lynn Hershman Leeson's interactive art linking gaming and art, Nancy Burson's foresight in multicultural representation through digital photography, George Legrady's early digital manipulation of press images, and Gretchen Bender's under-discussed contributions to digital visual language. These artists are shown to be crucial in understanding the digital landscape today.

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what. A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

In haar futuristische debuutroman heeft Veronica Rossi de mensheid in twee kampen verdeeld. Of je woont in een koepel en leidt een zo goed als compleet virtueel leven, of je woont buiten de koepel en bent overgeleverd aan de wetten van de natuur. Aria weet dat haar overlevingskansen in de woestenij – oftewel de Winkel des Doods – minimaal zijn nu ze is verstoten van haar thuis; de hermetisch afgesloten stad Reverie. Als ze al niet in handen valt van rondzwervende kannibalen, dan raakt ze waarschijnlijk wel gewond tijdens een van de zeer agressieve elektrische stormen die over de vlakte jagen en waarvan alleen de vrijgekomen lucht al dodelijk kan zijn. Wanneer ze de vlaktebewoner Perry tegenkomt, lijkt hij haar enige hoop om in leven te blijven. Ze besluiten samen op te trekken en luiden op die manier een nieuw tijdperk in voor iedereen die leeft in de wereld zonder hemel.

Soubor fotografií pop a rockových hvězd v situacích, ve kterých by se dnes možná raději neviděly.