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From: gabriel.menotti at gmail.com (Gabriel Menotti)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:22:35 -0400
Subject: <synthesis> out now in open access: BARBARIAN CURRENTS: Half a
 Century of Brazilian Media Arts
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Hey folks!


I'm very excited to let you know that BARBARIAN CURRENTS:  HALF A CENTURY
OF BRAZILIAN MEDIA ARTS has just been released through Open Humanities
Press' MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series.


FREE AS IN BEER, download it right here:
openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/barbarian-currents


Barbarian Currents covers more than 50 years of Brazilian media arts
through the voices of some of its main actors. The volume adopts a
sociological perspective, grounding itself in the somewhat stable concept
of /Brazil/ (8.5 million km2! 210 million people! five world cups!) to
navigate the considerably messier boundaries of media and technological
arts. Each section is punctuated by an introduction that briefly
contextualizes this history against the socio-economic reality of the
country. Most of this material is published in English for the first time.
If you ever needed a sourcebook on postwar Brazilian media arts, my
anglophone friends, now you have it!


With chapters by Aracy Amaral, Lucas Bambozzi, Paulo Bruscky, Augusto de
Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Fernando Cocchiarale, Marcos Cuzziol, Ot?vio
Donasci, Est?dio Livre, Annateresa Fabris, Solange Farkas, Yvana Fechine,
Anna Bella Geiger, Eduardo Kac, Arlindo Machado, Rubens Machado Jr,
Christine Mello, Frederico Morais, H?lio Oiticica, Luiz ?ngelo Pinto, D?cio
Pignatari, J?lio Plaza, re:combo, Ricardo Rosas, Regina Silveira, Tati
Wells, and Walter Zanini.



*Barbarian Currents: Half a Century of Brazilian Media Arts* has been
organized by Gabriel Menotti (Queen's University) and German Alfonso Nunez
(UNICAMP). It has been made possible through the support of the Canadian
SSHRC, the Brazilian FAPESP, and Queen's University Library and Vulnerable
Media Lab.
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