Reading List

I have a giant pile of books next to my bed at home (and under the bedside tables, on the 5 sets of shelves, in the cupboard, in piles in front of the shelves... you get the idea). You can read my past reading lists
here , and here, and here Here is my current shelf selection:

Peer Pressure: Essays on the Internet by an Artist on the Internet by Brad Troemel

Zona by Geoff Dyer

Women Artists at the Millennium ed by Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zehger

The World in Six Songs by Daniel Leviten

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon

In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists In Mexico and the United States by Illene Susan Fort and Tere Arcq

Go Human Not Ape by Francesco Spampinato

The Nine Eyes of Google Street View by Jon Rafman

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller

The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier

(Image 'Memento Mori' "To This Favour" by William Michael Harnett)

Buy Junk Jet

Junk Jet N°5, the net.heart issue, is hands down the best publication of the year. Editors Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest deserve a round of applause. The small book-zine has brought together essays and imagery exploring all things art slash internet. I've flagged a couple of these essays in the past - Artie Vierkant's impressive 'The Images Object Post-Internet' and Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin's 'Introduction to Net. Art' (1994-1999) - but there are lots of other pieces preserved between these pages which were fresh to me. Texts by Brad Troemel, Will Brand, Aureliano Segundo and Nicholas O'Brien which are thought provoking, awesome, inspiring, insert a superlative here... As well as artworks by Hanne Mugaas, Ben Vickers, Mike Ruiz, Constant Dullaart, Nicholas Sassoon, JODI, Parker Ito etc wrx. Immensely rereadable. I wish I had made this book.