Editor: Arie Altena
Design: Will, Amsterdam
120 pp., 100 g, 10 x 15 cm, English, September 2004
ISBN: 9789066173132

A small, irregular publication entirely dedicated to the new art forms that emerged in the early 2000s, amidst the burgeoning information society, where data profoundly influences how we navigate the world. These ‘information arts’ – often computer-generated or algorithmic – challenged traditional paradigms, categories, and labels that had long defined artistic practices. Through interviews, articles, and essays featuring, amongst others, media theorist Lev Manovich and conceptual designer Stephen Wilson, Unsorted serves as a dynamic companion to the then- and still-evolving landscape of technological art. 

Contents

Abstraction and Complexity – Lev Manovich

Art as Research – Stephen Wilson

Collectives and Art – Arie Altena

Driessens 7 Verstappen: Generating Art – A Talk with Arie Altena

Hearing Pure Data – Mitchell Whitelaw

Introduction – Taco Stolk

Listening Post – Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin

Organic and Conceptual Systems – Casey Reas, Bert Balcaen

Programme – Unsorted, Sonicacts, Paradiso Amsterdam

Brainmap – Raster-Noton

Structure, TI, Furrow, Microimage – Casey Reas

Res (Recycling Entertainment System) – Benjamin Gaulon

The Reverb Engine – Tobias C. Van Veen

Stallio! – Tobias C. van Veen

Yellow – Tobias C. van Veen