Digital Up Magazine BooK CHRISTIANE PAUL - DIGITAL ART Christiane Paul over views digital art as form, from its beginnings in the 1980’s to today, and looks ahead to what the future may bring. She points to key artists and artworks, making the difference between work that uses digital technology as a tool to produce traditional forms and work that uses it as a medium to create new types of art. The book deals with themes raised by digital art, such as viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, and networks. It also explores issues such as the collection, presentation and preservation of digital art, the virtual museum, and ownership and copyright. WILLIAM GIBSON - PATTERN RECOGNITION Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson, originally published in 2003. Set in post 9/11 world, the action takes place in London, Tokyo and Moscow. The novel’s main theme examines the human need to find and explain patterns in meaningless data. The heroine Cayce Pollard is ‘’coolhunter’’ and she belongs to the world of success – hungry marketeers, Internet hackers, spies and mobsters. Exciting, intense, contemporary. Very Now! DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF - PRESENT SHOCK: WHEN EVERYTHING HAPPENS NOW Humanity spent the 20th century attempting to envision the future. Today, we try to explain the present – where everything happens now. With the technologies we have created, we live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Douglas Rushkoff explores ‘’presentism’’ in the moment which is both overwhelming and disturbing.