Here at the Center for Experimental Media Arts we have been delving into a biology-themed semester. Here is a list of readings that we are more or less using to structure lab meetings and interactions with other groups at Srishti.
Bergson, H. (2005). Creative Evolution. Cosimo Classics.
Endler, J. A., & Basolo, A. L. (1998). Sensory ecology, receiver biases and sexual selection. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 13(10), 415-420.
Ensemble, C. A. (1994). Electronic Civil Disobedience. Critical Art Ensemble.
Ensemble, C. A. (2001). Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media. Autonomedia.
Haraway, D. J. (2007). When Species Meet. Univ Of Minnesota Press.
Hawken, P., Lovins, A., & Lovins, L. H. (2000). Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Back Bay Books.
Jack Ingram, Elizabeth Shove, & Matthew Watson. (2007). Products and Practices: Selected Concepts from Science and Technology Studies and from Social Theories of Consumption and Practice1. Retrieved February 14, 2008, from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/desi.2007.23.2.3?journalCode=desi
Jasanoff, S. (2007). Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton University Press.
Manzini, Ezio. DOORS OF PERCEPTION. Products, Services and Relations for a Sustainable Society. Retrieved February 13, 2008, from http://museum.doorsofperception.com/doors3/transcripts/Manzini.html
McCullough, M. (2004). Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing. MIT Press Cambridge, MA, USA.
McDonough, W., & Braungart, M. (2002). Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. North Point Press.
Meadows, D. (1999). Leverage points: places to intervene in a system [Electronic version]. Hartland, VT: The Sustainability Institute. Retrieved February, 15, 2005.
Morville, P. (2005). Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become. O’Reilly Media, Inc.
O’Rourke, D., Connelly, L., & Koshland, C. P. (1996). Industrial ecology: a critical review. International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 6(2/3), 89-112.
Real, L. A. (1993). Toward a cognitive ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 8(11), 413-417.
Shettleworth, S. J. (2000). Cognitive ecology: field or label? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 15(4), 161-161.
Shiva, E. B. V. (2007). Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed. SOUTH END PR.
Shiva, V. (1993). Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology. Zed Books.
Shiva, V. (1997). Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. South End Press.
Shiva, V. (2000). Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. South End Press.
Spiekermann, E., & Ginger, E. (2002). Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works. Adobe Press.
Sterling, B. (2005). Shaping Things. The MIT Press.
Thackara, J. (2005). In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World. The MIT Press.
Tidwell, J. (2005). Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design. O’Reilly Media, Inc.
