http://www.kuda.org/kudaread

New media center kuda.org has started publishing activities in 2004. and series named kuda.read dedicated to the exploration of critical approach to new media culture and technology, as well as new social and art relations.

In kuda.read series have been published four titles:

003 - divanik, Conversations and interviews about new media art, culture and society
002 - bitomatik, Art practice in the time of information/media domination
001 - tektonik, New social ontology in the time of total communication
000 - Trans_European Picnic: Art and Media of Accession

Those books are collections of texts, transcripts of lectures and interviews with researchers, theoreticians, artists and activists who have been guests of the kuda.lounge program between 2001 and 2004 at the kuda.org New Media Center. System of four surveillance cameras has been positioned inside kuda.org space, where they have recorder and carefully observed analysis and debates that took place inside of it. Recorded material forms unique media archive available and free for all and presents starting point for its transcription and transformation into printing format. The selected texts, lectures and interviews in this edition are part of research the intersection of new technologies, culture and society; research of phenomena such as globalization, technological systems of control, mass communication and the Internet, new social movements, the new proletariat and new economy, the problem of intellectual property rights, biotechnology, new-media "genres" such as net.art, software art, interactive art and generative art.

All texts in kuda.read series are published under Creative Commons license /Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 1.0/ which indicates that all content is free to be copied, redistributed and displayed under conditions mentioned above.

All content of the books could be freely downloaded in PDF format at http://kuda.org/e_kudaread.htm

Books are simultaneously presented both in Serbian and English language.

However, if someone is interested to get hard copy of books, pls contact: office@kuda.org

001 - tektonik/ New social ontology in the time of total communication/
This collection of texts focuses on socio-political phenomena of contemporary society and communication technologies within it that in a way looks at warning projections of a dehumanized future determined by the interests of capital, a telling critique of technical-science as the ultimate generator of the capitalist machine. Also, in opposition to this, there are some models presented of how the potential of new information and communication technologies can be used for democratization and realization of the project of a "better society".

Content: Saskia Sassen: Globalization or Denationalization? Economy and Policy in a Global Digital Age/ Micz Flor: Kill the Object, Keep the Product/ Geert Lovink: Deep Europe and Kosovo Conflict - A History of the V2_East - Syndicate Network and beyond/ Konrad Becker: Culture and Technologies of Control/ Steve Kurtz: Bio Resistance, about Problems of Biotechnology, Cloning and Genetic Engineering/ Kristian Lukic: Let us Become Children! Training, Simulation and Kids/ Relja Drazic: Logistics of Mutiny/ Sarai Raqs Media Collective: A Concise Lexicon Of-For the Digital Commons

002 - bitomatik/ Art practice in the time of information/media domination/
Society as an object of intervention by an artistic project, and media research via which this intervention is to be carried out, are the basis of this collection of texts. Particular attention has been paid to communication and the exchange of ideas, primarily owing to the fact that the arts' scene in Serbia during the nineties developed within a context of what is often called “Art in a Closed Society”, which resulted in a syndrome of self-referential artistic production. Those texts are orientated towards researching new media related to social activism, media theory, conceptual art, new-media: software art, interactive art, etc.

Content: Eric Kluitenberg: Transfiguration of the Avant-Garde, The Negative Dialectics of the Net/ Darko Fritz: Amnesia International - Early Computer Art and the Tendencies Movement/ Armin Medosch: Piratology: Deep Seas of Open Code and Free Culture/ Inke Arns: Read_me, run_me, execute_me: Some Notes about Software Art/ Beatriz de Costa, Steve Kurtz - Critical Art Ensemble: Molecular Invasion and Another Projects/ Bureau d'Etudes: Mapping Contemporary Capitalism/ Armin Medosch: Not Just Another Wireless Utopia - Developing the Social Protocols of Free Networking/ Sarai Raqs Media Collective: A Concise Lexicon Of-For the Digital Commons

003 - divanik/ Conversations and interviews about new media art, culture and society/
This is a collection of interviews conducted in the period from 2001 to 2004 which represents intersection of research in the field of new technologies, culture and society. Interviews present network of people and organizations that make one part of the contemporary media art and theory scene. Interview represents concise form of communication and it is a useful instrument in the scientific work as meta-text that follows complex theory or artwork. In the interviews authors present contexts in which they were creating and their points of view and this direct communication through the actual questions presents real-time articulated energetic potential. That is also a chance to analyze and restructure certain topics in the form that couldn't occur in theoretic and artistic work.

Content: Interview with Geert Lovink: The End and The Beginning of Creative Use of Technologies/ Interview with Raqs Media Collective, Sarai: Report from India/ Interview with Saskia Sassen: Economy, Policy and Cultural Production in Global Digital Age/ Interview with Marcus Neustetter: Report from Africa/ Interview with group Bureau d'Etudes: Art Analysis of Global Capitalism/ Interview with Marina Grzinic: Art Production and Capitalist Oriented Market/ Interview with Cindy Cohn: Struggle for Preservation of Basic Internet Values/ Interview with Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble: About Tactical Media and Art Production/ Appendix: Beatriz da Costa: Amateur Science, A threat after all?

000 - Trans_European Picnic: Art and Media of Accession
On the occasion of the Trans_European Picnic that was held in Novi Sad, April 29-May 1, a miscellany of works on the subjects of arts and media in accession was published. On May 1, 2004 the European Union expanded beyond its current "core Europe" constellation to include, for the first time, nations of the former Eastern and Non-Aligned Blocks. By recalling the pan-European Picnic of 1989 along the Austrian-Hungarian border, which induced the events leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the Trans-European Picnic marked the resultant shift in Europe's geopolitical structure. For many however, the "opening" brought about by the events of 1989 are now to be met by "managed closure", restricted mobility, the revival of "visa regimes" delineating new barriers and borders as well as the imposition of new top-down regulations, bureaucracies and standards.

Content: kuda.org: New Europe/Pax Europeana / Stephen Kovats: Paneuropean to Transeuropean / Nat Muller: Running with the Picnic: An Invitation to Join / Interview with Brian Holmes: Looking Out from the Margins / Antonio Negri, translation in Serbian by Ksenija Stevanovic: Politicke strategije za Evropu. Evropa je neophodna, ali da li je moguca? / Ivana Momcilovic, for collective Eimigrative art: Democracy for Foreigners - Europe at Risk, A Report from the Post-Yugoslav Hygienic Corridor / Katherine Carl, Srdan Jovanovic Vajs: Topolitics from the Double Outside / Edit András: Blind Spot of the New Critical Theory, Notes on the Theory of Self-colonization / Nina Czegledy: Politics of Space / Bojana Petric: Managing diversity, managing identity: Between the Other and Our(EU)selves / Interview with Milos Vojtechovsky: Community Media Kit / Luchezar Boyadjiev: No more exchange! Art, please! / Basak Senova: (Constantly) being Mobile as A Mode of Survival, The Case of NOMAD / Florian Schneider: BORDER04, Crossing the borders from the Real to a Virtual Europe / mxhz.org: Pamphlet for a Connected Aesthetics / Interview with Alan Toner: Creative Commoners and the Dystopia of Control