10 editions of xCoAx, more than 10 years of (loads of) work and (even bigger loads of) fun, in terms of conceiving, planning, designing, organising, printing, connecting, hammering, painting, discussing…
It feels like yesterday, but also like 10 centuries ago. So much has changed in the world since the very first xCoAx in 2013 in Bergamo, and yet we are dealing with the same questions on what it means to be creative with computers, to be meaningful with signs, to be humans with/despite/thanks to machines.
This is a milestone in our quest, which we wanted to celebrate with some of our most beloved xCoAxers.
We called, and they answered.
The journey is not at all over, but it's good to know we can rely on such great companions.
Join us. This is The Book of X.
Edited by:
Miguel Carvalhais, André Rangel, Luísa Ribas, Mario Verdicchio
Get the printed book!: The Book of X is free. You can grab a copy at the i2ADS bookstore in Porto, or order one by paying for the postage by emailing editoriali2ads@fba.up.pt.
Texts by:
- Philip Galanter
- Sophie-Carolin Wagner
- Andreas Broeckmann
- Rodrigo Hernández-Ramírez
- Rosemary Lee
- Frieder Nake
- Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Bro Pold
- Patrícia J. Reis
- Victoria Bradbury
- Nicolas Malevé, Nestor Siré, Gaia Tedone
- Jung In Jung
- Gabriel S Moses, Yoav Yaakov Lifshitz, Tsila Hassine
- Amy Alexander
- Jon McCormack
- Daniel Temkin
- Domenico Quaranta
- Alessandro Ludovico
Artworks by:
- Olia Lialina
- Alex McLean
- Andres Wanner
- Sara Orsi
- Angela Ferraiolo
- Beverley Hood
- Anna-Luise Lorenz
- Andrés Villa Torres
- Catarina Lee
- Jingyin (Jon) He
- Kim Albrecht
- Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato
- Joana Chicau
- Christian Faubel
- Hanns Holger Rutz
- David Pirrò
- Martin Bricelj Baraga
- Paul Prudence
- Małgorzata Dancewicz
- Valentina Vuksic
- Adriana Sá
- Vilbjørg Broch
- Francisca Rocha Gonçalves
- Martin Rumori
- Špela Petrič
- Filipe Pais
- Tim Shaw
- Winnie Soon
- Yanai Toister and Nimrod Astarhan
- Pedro Tudela
- Jason Reizner
First published in 2022. This book © the editors 2022. The contributions © the contributors 2022.
Published by:
i2ADS: Research Institute in Art, Design and Society
Av. Rodrigues de Freitas, 265
4049-021 Porto
Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, School of Arts, CITAR: Research Centre for Science and Technology of the Arts
Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327
4169-005 Porto
Portugal
ISBN: 978-989-9049-26-0 (PDF) 978-989-9049-25-3 (Paperback)
DOI: 10.24840/978-989-9049-26-0
This book is financed by national funds through the Portuguese funding agency FCT: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the projects UIDP/04395/2020 and UID/00622/2020.