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Open! Key Texts, 2004-2012
Open! Key Texts, 2004-2012
Text by Wolfgang Ernst, Brian Holmes, Boris Groys, Sven Lütticken, Saskia Sassen, Jonathan Sassen, Stephan Wright, et al. 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 >>more

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ISBN 9789462080034
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 260 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Not available


Open 24: Politics of Things
Open 24: Politics of Things
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis, Jeroen Boomgaard, Peter Peters. Text by Bernd Stiegler, Peter Peters, Ruth Benschop, Fiona Candlin, Peter-Paul Verbeek, Noortje Marres, Jeroen Boomgaard, Sher Doruff, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Pascal Gielen, Mariska van den Berg, et al. In 2005, Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel produced Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, an exhibition and publication about the role of art and design in democratic processes. Open 24 looks at their representation in >>more

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ISBN 9789462080300
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Not available


Open 23: Autonomy
Open 23: Autonomy
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis, Sven Lutticken. In a world that has become sharply polarized between political viewpoints, artists and other cultural creators have a choice between engaging with the political climate or remaining aloof. Issue 23 of Open investigates a third >>more

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ISBN 9789056628581
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 40 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Not available


Open 22: Transparency
Open 22: Transparency
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. Contributions by Sven Lütticken, Boris Groys, Felix Stalder, Jodi Dean, Jill Magid, Stefan Nowotny, Geert Lovink. Open 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a test case. The contributors consider transparency as fetish >>more

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ISBN 9789056628390
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 40 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Out of stock


Open 21: Immobility
Open 21: Immobility
Text by Wim Nijenhuis, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Florian Schneider, Brian Holmes, Lieven de Cauter, et. al 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 >>more

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ISBN 9789056628147
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 40 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Out of stock


Open 20: The Populist Imagination
Open 20: The Populist Imagination
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis, Merijn Oudenampsen. "Power to the imagination!" is a famous May 1968 rallying cry. But today, many of those who invoke the masses--Berlusconi, the Tea Party, Geert Wilders and others--have intentions of a quite different nature. This issue >>more

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ISBN 9789056627690
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 40 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Out of stock


Open 19: Beyond Privacy
Open 19: Beyond Privacy
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. New technologies are rapidly redefining our notions of privacy. Beyond Privacy examines the current trends of both increased governmental collection of personal data and the volunteering of information in the media and on the internet. >>more

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ISBN 9789056627362
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 40 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Not available


Open 18: 2030 War Zone Amsterdam
Open 18: 2030 War Zone Amsterdam
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. Amsterdam at war in 2030? This terrifying projection into a possible future aims to expand our thinking about tolerance, fear, security, censorship and urban politics. Naming no specific enemy, theorists and artists ask questions and >>more

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ISBN 9789056627102
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 40 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Out of stock


Open 17: A Precarious Existence
Open 17: A Precarious Existence
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. This edition of Open investigates the precariousness of the artist, both culturally and socially. The precarious city and the precariousness of public space are duly considered. >>more

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ISBN 9789056626945
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Not available


Open 16: The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon
Open 16: The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon
Edited by Maria Hlavajova, Thierry de Duve, Chantal Mouffe, Molly Nesbit, Boris Groys, Michael Hardt, Irit Rogoff. This year, Open celebrates its fifth anniversary with this extra edition, which addresses the role of the art biennial in city marketing. Open 16 is published concurrently with the first Brussels Biennial. >>more

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ISBN 9789056626679
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 112 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Not available


Open 15: Social Engineering
Open 15: Social Engineering
Text by René Boomkens, Wouter van Stiphout, Charles Esche, Gijs van Oenen. Social engineering has reemerged in the past several decades as part of the urban-renewal debate. This edition of Open posits a tactical, activist response to the prevailing neoliberal and neoconservative trends, and takes a critical >>more

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ISBN 9789056626655
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/06/2009 Not available


Open 14: Art as a Public Issue
Open 14: Art as a Public Issue
Edited by Liesbeth Melis, Jorinde Seijdel. As the world is increasingly aware, the visual arts are no longer confined by the semi-public space of the museum or the privacy of the studio. In recent decades we have seen a marked pressure >>more

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ISBN 9789056624354
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Not available


Open 13: The Rise of the Informal Media
Open 13: The Rise of the Informal Media
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. With the rise of less formal, more personal media outlets like YouTube and blogs, the mass media is no longer our only public forum. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal Open investigates these new >>more

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ISBN 9789056626044
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available


Open 12: Freedom of Culture
Open 12: Freedom of Culture
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel. Text by Stephen Wright, Brian Holmes, Dennis Kaspori, Willen van Weelden. 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 >>more

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ISBN 9789056625580
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2007 Not available


Open 11: Hybrid Space
Open 11: Hybrid Space
Edited by Eric Kluitenberg, Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. Text by Howard Rheingold, Saskia Sassen, Frans Vogelaar, Elizabeth Sikiardi, Noortje Marres, Koen Brams, Dirk Pultau, Marion Hamm, Kristina Andersen, Ari Altena, Daniel Van Der Velden, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Max Bruinsma. Laptops in the park, Bluetooth alerts at the bar, microchips under the dog's skin: wireless technologies like WiFi, GPS, and RFID are changing public space. The world is increasingly traversed by an electronic infrastructure and >>more

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ISBN 9789056625368
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Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available


Open 10: (In)tolerance
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis. Essays by Max Bruinsma, Jeroen Boomgaard, Lonnie van Brummelen, Martijn Engelbrecht, Siebren de Haan, Marion Hamm, Joke Hermes, Maurice Nio, Paul Gerry, Gijs Van Oenen, The Buggers, et al. Open is a notebook on art and the public domain, published twice a year. Open considers the interaction between art, commissioner, place and public in relation to developments within new media, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture >>more

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ISBN 9789056624934
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color and 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available


Open 09: Sound
Open 09: Sound
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. Essays by Jonathan Sterne, Dirk van Weelden, Edwin Carels, Moniek Toebosch and Suzanne van de Ven. In recent years both art and architecture have looked anew at the element of sound, and that interest has led to increased study of sound's potential to lend social or spatial meaning. What are the >>more

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ISBN 9789056624576
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Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Not available


Open 08: (In)Visibility
Open 08: (In)Visibility
Edited by Liesbeth Melis and Jorinde Sijdel. 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 >>more

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ISBN 9789056624330
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available


Open 07: (No) Memory
Open 07: (No) Memory
Edited by Liesbeth Melis and Jorinde Seijdel. Essays by Wolfgang Ernst, Jouke Kleerebezem, Geert Lovink, Sven Lütticken, Rudi Laermans, Paul Meurs, Frank van Vree and Cor Wagenaar. How can cultural heritage be made accessible without resisting new developments, or turning city and countryside into a museum? What is the impact of the media and digital storage techniques on the social and historic >>more

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ISBN 9789056623937
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Not available


Open 06
Open 06
Essays by Lieven de Cauter, Sven Lütticken, Thomas Y. Levin, Gijs Van Oenen, Guus Beumer, Jouke Kleerebezem, Q.S. Serafijn, and Willem van Weelden. Post 9-11, post Iraqi invasion, post (we wish) the War on Terrorism, there is a great deal of interest in safety in the public domain, both in the political realm and among the general public. >>more

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ISBN 9789056623821
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Not available