Arie Altena's Books

Cinema has stimulated our imagination for more than a century. Numerous new media strive towards creating a resembling experience in their audiences. Recent technological developments in digitalisation, higher-definition imagary and sound, ever-faster communication networks and new types of portable video players make it necessary to consider, what is this particular experience we describe as ‘cinematic’? Through a series of commissioned essays and interviews, this publication brings together theorists and artists to reflect on the history, present and future of cinematic experiences.

The book explores what it means to be human, to be part of a world that is an ever-changing network and invites us to speculate about the strange and anxious state of being. Among the contributions, Jennifer Gabrys discusses sensor technologies, Louis Henderson presents his cinematic practice, which focuses on the critical reading of colonial histories, and Ytasha Womack discusses how Afrofuturism facilitates different ways of navigating the world. Neworked algorithms, big data, and habituation on the internet are the focus of a conversation with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Eyal Weizman vigorously explains the political interventions of Forensic Architecture, and Jamon Van Den Hoek examines how satellite images provide and create accounts of geopolitical conflicts.

This publication presents an exploration of space and spatiality in the arts, more specifically the poetry of (abstract) space and the (psychological) perception of space. With a particular focus on immersive installations, spatial sound, multi-screen projections, audiovisual performances, and the innovative artistic use of technology that often takes centre-stage at Sonic Acts, the publication provides insights into the various ways in which the arts approach and define space. Among others, the critical essays explore extremely long sound waves, volcano eruptions and Alvin Lucier, the fascinating history of dioramas, the legendary Vortex concerts of Henry Jacobs and Jordan Belson and the ways in which mobile and location-aware technology profoundly changes the use of social and public space. Interviews with artists, architects and composers shed light on how contemporary artists approach space and spatiality.

This book draws from our quarter-of-a-century festival ‘celebration’, but it is not dedicated to ‘looking back’ on the way Sonic Acts, along with the world, has changed. Rather, it is devoted to finding ways of confronting and surviving the brutality of now. It contains a rare selection of critical essays on contemporary political and climate realities, colonial legacies of European projects, and racial and gender biases of contemporary technologies. Visual and textual contributions highlight an evocative approach to writing, merging field notes and memoir, to accurately capture the processes of making work fuelled by research. It also contains tender contributions that embed modes of discourse within the visual, in order to gauge the complexities and interconnections of this crisis and re-imagine a different reality.

Critical essays and interviews in this volume reveal the significance and intricacies of time and particularly how we experience it. Time is a complex and ambiguous concept. Relativity theorists and quantum mechanics have tinkered with the seemingly unambiguous concept of time since the beginning of the previous century. Art, film, and music make abstract notions of time tangible and comprehensible, and manipulate how we experience it. The ongoing development and implementation of technology constantly challenge, change and undermine our perception of time. This book is, in a sense, a homage to the human experience of time. One half of this anthology consists of articles and essays dealing with conceptions and imaginings of time in the fields of technology, culture and literature. The other half, collects interviews, with composers and performing musicians, concerning their intimate knowledge of working with time.

This anthology celebrates the history of computer art. It gives special consideration not only to the evolution of autonomous computer art, in part through reprinting several seminal essays of pioneering practitioners, but also to an eclectic selection of exemplary contemporary projects, that span across the fields artist’s software, computer generated music and digital art. The featured essays, artistic projects and visual material characterize computer art is an autonomous art-form, firmly rooted both into the visual arts and technology. Ultimately, the anthology highlights the short period when, the worlds of technology, cybernetics and art came together.

Translated by Herbert Donald Morton The central theme of this history is the Free University as a private institution founded to provide Christian higher education. At its founding in 1880, the Vrije University had only five professors and five students. Among the other public universities, it struck an odd figure and seemed destined for failure. Yet founder Abraham Kuyper never wavered in his determination to build a special Reformed, Calvinist university. Arie van Deursen here recounts the engrossing history of this unique university in its 125th year, using fully documented archival sources to detail the school's ups and downs over the years.

In this work, Arie W. Zwiep examines the gospel stories of the raising of Jairus's daughter and the healing of the haemorrhaging woman (Mark 5:21-43; Matt 9:18-26; Luke 8:40-56) from a plurality of (sometimes conflicting) interpretive strategies to demonstrate the need and fruitfulness of a multi-perspectival exegetical approach. Among the various (diachronic and synchronic) methods that are being applied in this study are philological criticism, form criticism and structural analysis, tradition- and redaction criticism, orality studies and performance criticism, narrative analysis, textual criticism and the study of intertextuality. Such a comprehensive approach, it is argued, leads to an increased knowledge and a deepened understanding of the ancient texts in question and to a sharpened awareness of the applicability of current scholarly research instruments to unlock documents from the past.

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the effects of climate variability on hydrological and human systems in the Holocene (last 10, 000 years), with a view to predicting similar effects in the future. It will be of value to researchers and professionals in hydrology, climatology, geology and historical geography.

Pieter Saenredam (1597–1665) was one of the magical painters of 17th-century Holland, a time known as the Golden Age of Dutch Art. He spent his career immortalizing the churches of Holland in drawings and paintings. Working through a series of perspective drawings to the finished painting, he made innumerable fine adjustments to architectural details to create what may be justly called spaces of wondrous perfection of proportion and luminosity. Pieter Saenredam, The Utrecht Work is published to coincide with an exhibition of Saenredam’s drawings and paintings, originally held at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, and on view from April 16 through July 7, 2002 at the Getty Museum. This elegant volume brings together more than sixty drawings and paintings depicting the beautiful and historically venerable churches of the Dutch city of Utrecht.

Book's by Arie Altena

The Cinematic Experience

The Cinematic Experience

The Noise of Being

The Noise of Being

The Poetics of Space

The Poetics of Space

Hereafter

Hereafter

Travelling Time

Travelling Time

The Anthology of Computer Art

The Anthology of Computer Art

The Distinctive Character of the Free University in Amsterdam, 1880-2005

The Distinctive Character of the Free University in Amsterdam, 1880-2005

Jairus's Daughter and the Haemorrhaging Woman

Jairus's Daughter and the Haemorrhaging Woman

Climate Changes during the Holocene and their Impact on Hydrological Systems

Climate Changes during the Holocene and their Impact on Hydrological Systems

The Poetics of Space

The Poetics of Space

Pieter Saenredam, The Utrecht Work

Pieter Saenredam, The Utrecht Work

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