Digital Up Magazine Book DigitalUPMagazine.com SOFTWARE TAKES COMMAND – LEV MANOVICH Lev Manovich’s latest book, Software Takes Command, serves as a follow-up, an extension and an updating of his previous book-length study The Language of New Media (2001). The focus is put on the software, the most common programs used today, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Final Cut and After Effects. Inevitably, the questions rose: ‘’How do their interfaces and tools shape the visual aesthetics of contemporary media and design? What happens to the idea of a ’medium’ after previously mediaspecific tools have been simulated and extended in software?’’ Software Takes Command gives us theoretical answers in perfectly organized and well- thought-out argumentation, which makes this book an exhaustive and complete in its research of the practices of new media production. INGEBORGREICHLE - ART IN THE AGE OF TECHNOSCIENCE: GENETIC ENGINEERING, ROBOTICS, AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY ART Art historian Ingeborg Reichle explores a vast field of interplay between art and science. Art forms like ‘’Transgenic Art’’ and ‘’Bio-Art’’ emerge from the laboratory, and they differ from traditional ways art examines nature and science. The author tries to give answer to question such as: ‘’is science the new art? ’’The book is the outcome of an extensive research on art and technoscience, featuring numerous contemporary artists: Jane Prophet, Suzanne Anker, Tissue Culture & Art Project, Pam Skelton, Steve Miller, Herwig Turk, Paul Vanouse, Peta Clancy. Click and download free PDF DigitalUP [ 41 ]