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September 2008

Black Rhythms of Peru, Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific by Heidi Carolyn Feldman. Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen.
Biomasa by Planeta Imaginario. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Bug Guitar Computer by Steve MacLean. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Cigar Smoke by Esther Lamneck. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher. [End Page 88]
Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife by Akira Mizuta Lippit. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.
Ginger Leigh & the Hallucinations by Ginger Leigh. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture by Lara Kriegel. Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng.
Metatron by Richard Pinhas. Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen.
The Most of Now by Nikola Kodjabashia. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Namesake Caution by Time of Orchids. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
The Parasite by Michel Serres. Reviewed by Anthony Enns.
Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play by Jennifer De Vere Brody. Reviewed by Margarete Jahrmann.
The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse by Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace. Reviewed by John F. Barber.
Secret Carnival Workers: Paul Haines, edited by Stuart Broomer. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Sexy Inc.: Our Children Under Influence by Sophie Bissonnete. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.
The Sugar Curtain, directed by Camila Guzmán Urzúa. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton. Reviewed by Rob Harle.
What Is Free to a Good Home? by Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism by Erhard Bahr. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

August 2008

Adrienne Klein: Radiant Logic, at Holo-center—The Center for Holographic Art. Reviewed by Susan Gamble.
From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video by Joshua M. Greenberg. Reviewed by José Carlos Mariátegui and Jannis Kallinikos.
Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Tan by Philip Monk. Reviewed by John F. Barber.
Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture, edited by Mel Alexenberg. Reviewed by Jack Ox.
Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes by Christopher D. Salyers. Reviewed by George Shortess.
La Jetée, Ciné-Roman by Chris Marker. Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen.
Post Impressions: A Travel Book for Tragic Intellectuals by Hollis Taylor. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.
Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor. Reviewed by Kathryn Adams.
Sónar: 15th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, June 19-21, 2008. Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann.

July 2008

21 Up South Africa: Mandela's Children, directed by Angus Gibson. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video by Joshua M. Greenberg. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.
The Counter-Creationism Handbook by Mark Isaak. Reviewed by Fred Andersson.
Dreamland by Beat Circus. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Do Communists Have Better Sex? directed by André Meier. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Documentary Time: Film and Phenomenology by Malin Wahlberg. Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg.
Excellent Cadavers by Marco Turco. Reviewed by Fred Andersson.
The Face of Evil by David Tosco. Reviewed by Fred Andersson.
The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne, directed by Susan Vogel. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.
Radiant City, directed by Gary Burns and Jim Brown. Reviewed by Anthony Enns.
Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace by Deborah Kapchan. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

June 2008

Ace Records, by David Stubbs. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco by Nadya Zimmerman. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.
Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema, by Pavle Levi. Reviewed by Fred Andersson.
Disonancias: Joint Research Project between International Artists and R&D&I Units Located in the Basque Country, edited by Grupo XABIDE and Víctor Iriarte. Reviewed...

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