Posting random items (outside of music) part 4: Joseph Nechvatal - Immersion Into Noise

Joseph Nechvatal is an author who teaches at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in NYC and has just written this very interesting book Immersion Into Noise which is being published by Open Humanities Press. At first I thought this was a book about noise related to music, after all it was sent here to KYC where I have posted quite a bit of music that some might consider to be "noise". But it is actually an investigation into the "multiple aspects of cultural noise, applying the audio understanding of noise to the visual, architectural and cognitive domains. Immersion Into Noise is intended as a conceptual handbook useful for the development of a personal-political-visionary art of noise."  

With all that is going on with the Occupy Wall Street protests, and the noise that is being made across the country, I thought it would be fitting to give this book some attention. Open Humanities Press in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office is doing a proper publicity campaign soon to coincide with the release of the printed book and the downloadable e-book versions.
In the meantime check it out here!

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/9618970.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=toc

Joseph Nechvatal's blog: http://post.thing.net/blog/244

Joseph Nechvatal's url: http://www.nechvatal.net/

Open Humanities press release: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/immersion-into-noise.html