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QUANTUMEDIA Cultural Considerations in the Age of Information
By Gregory O'Toole; Publisher: Civic Media Press

At the outset we have the self. Beyond the self is the outside social world. How do our media communication technologies fit into this equation? Media, by affective nature and definition, are situated directly between the self and society and, at the same time, are indistinct of both, existing at a "quantum" social level, a phenomenon termed Quantumedia. No longer can media be separated out from either the individual or the community. Further, media act as a multi-layered communicative force field, an informational membrane between the two entities, and serve not only to reflect the self back onto the self, society back onto society, but also, and perhaps most importantly, as a point of interactive inversion where the self becomes part of society, and the society part of the self. This occurs only through a vast, complex layer of reflective light rays, analog signals, and binary code. It is in this way that a principle of mediated knowledge inversion comes to be.

5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm), Black & White on Cream paper, Rhythm Mountain Studios, ISBN-13: 978-0971112582, ISBN-10: 0971112584, BISAC: Philosophy / Criticism.

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PROJECT
THE LEGITIMATION PROBLEM From the Eradication of the Metanarrative to the End of the 20th Century

Jean-Francois Lyotard writes that metanarratives legitimate. He also explains that the metanarrative has been eradicated from Western culture and that efficiency (i.e. a fast-track to profit) is the only model left leaving the current state of legitimation in a curious position. In order to understand the process leading to legitimation, this analysis works to establish the necessary flow toward the metanarrative: from knowledge, to establishing meaning, to legitimation. List Price: $10.00, 5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm), Black & White on Cream paper, 264 pages, Rhythm Mountain Studios, ISBN-13: 978-0971112544, ISBN-10: 0971112541, BISAC: Philosophy / Criticism.

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PROJECT
ELECTROMANIA Observations from Inside A Media-Rich Culture: Jack Kerouac to the Present

ELECTROMANIA is a project of new media ethnography. The culturally documentary mobile phone and digital SLR images are the motivator, and the experimental text based narratives that result examine the photographic truths hidden in our everyday global society employ the expressionistic influences of the very media through which they are captured to tell a story of the every day. The project was in full swing from July 2005 until the latest post here in November 2008. List price: $12.00, 5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm) Black & White on Cream paper158 pagesRhythm Mountain StudiosISBN-13: 978-0971112575 ISBN-10: 0971112576 BISAC: Art / Criticism. Author: Gregory O'Toole, Publisher: Civic Media Press.

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PROJECT
THE LAST MODERN DAY ROAD WORN THINK TANK BAZAAR: AN ADVENTURE
A Memoir, ISBN-13: 978-0971112551 ISBN-10: 097111255X, 314 pages

AUTHOR
Gregory O'Toole

PUBLISHER
Civic Media Press

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An interactive Web application project that I developed called The Virtual Eq. Learning Environment was recently published in the international Memefest book, DEMONSTRATING RELEVANCE: RESPONSE-ABILITY -
 Theory, practice and imagination of socially responsive communication. The book brings a different, fresh and radical interdisciplinary reflexive look at communications and media practices and theories. It contains textual and visual works that were created between 2002 and 2009 in the context of the International Festival of Radical Communication MEMEFEST and additional new reflections written in the end of 2010. Editorial and curatorial work was conducted in 2010.

The collection of texts is constructive and responsible. With its uncompromising radical approach, it critically questions the ideology and practice of mainstream media-communication discourse. It is looking for theoretical and practical solutions where they are: in socio-responsible conceptualization. The collection of texts is not modeled after a template. It is unique, original and visually invaluable. It combines different visual perspectives and theoretical approaches that are indispensable for the field of social, cultural, media and communication, as well as design studies. A reflexive interlace of theory and practice.It is designed for anyone interested in new aspects of socio-critical thinking: professionals in the field of communication, communication educators with a social fibre, students in cultural, media and communication programs, students of design and art, as well as media activists. Book is in English and in Slovene language. This is a key text for anyone interested in socially responsive communication.

Book Information

Edited & Curated by:
 Oliver Vodeb, Ph.D.
 and Nikola Janović, Ph.D.

Contents: textual and visual

Printing: Color

No. of pages: 576

Weight: 1.08 kg 

Main financial support: Ministry of culture, Slovenia

Secondary financial support: ŠOU LJ

Publisher: Faculty for Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana & Memefest

Series: Psychology of Everyday Life

Price: 34 Euros
From the contents:
Index
, Introduction to the book
Purchase: www.memefest.org/demonstratingrelevance/en

Bookstores: Faculty for Social Sciences Publishing Store, Publisher FDV

"Theft in a Poor Fad Foolish Nation" will be featured on the new website and faculty gallery of The Art Institutes. (Publication date TBA.) "Theft in a Poor Fad Foolish Nation" is commentary on the current human-computer social interface. This painting, measuring 40"x48", is a mixed media collage on wood panel, and is part of a series titled "Detournemental Illness: Situationism and the American Idol." Artist: Gregory O'Toole, Full Time Faculty member, Department of Web Design and Interactive Media, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division, all rights 2011.

 
Past Galleries - This Painting Has Exhibited

Rhonda Schaller Gallery, Chelsea District
New York City

Cochenour Gallery, Georgetown College
Georgetown, Kentucky

American Idolization Series - "Theft in a Poor Fad Foolish Nation" is part of a series titled American Idolization: http://www.gregory-otoole.com/american-idolization/