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Digital Aesthetics

Author : Sean Cubitt
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761959007
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Digital Aesthetics written by Sean Cubitt and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book. Sean Cubitt casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality. Drawing on historical scholarship, philosophical aesthetics and the literature of cyberculture, the author argues for a genuine democracy beyond the limitations of the free market and the global corporation. Digital arts are identified as having a vital part to play in this process. Written in a balanced and penetrating style, the book both conveniently summarizes a huge literature and sets a new agenda for research and theory.

SpecLab

Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226165094
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book SpecLab written by Johanna Drucker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia’s SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects Drucker engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists’ Books Online to the as yet unrealized ’Patacritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, SpecLab functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker’s contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age—models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.

Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art

Author : Katja Kwastek
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262528290
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art written by Katja Kwastek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art-historical perspective on interactive media art that provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and analyzing digital art. Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding of art and media alike. Kwastek, herself an art historian, offers a set of theoretical and methodological tools that are suitable for understanding and analyzing not only new media art but also other contemporary art forms. Addressing both the theoretician and the practitioner, Kwastek provides an introduction to the history and the terminology of interactive art, a theory of the aesthetics of interaction, and exemplary case studies of interactive media art. Kwastek lays the historical and theoretical groundwork and then develops an aesthetics of interaction, discussing such aspects as real space and data space, temporal structures, instrumental and phenomenal perspectives, and the relationship between materiality and interpretability. Finally, she applies her theory to specific works of interactive media art, including narratives in virtual and real space, interactive installations, and performance—with case studies of works by Olia Lialina, Susanne Berkenheger, Stefan Schemat, Teri Rueb, Lynn Hershman, Agnes Hegedüs, Tmema, David Rokeby, Sonia Cillari, and Blast Theory.

Digital Aesthetics

Author : Sean Cubitt
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1848609205
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Digital Aesthetics written by Sean Cubitt and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book. Sean Cubitt casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality. Drawing on historical scholarship, philosophical aesthetics and the literature of cyberculture, the author argues for a genuine democracy beyond the limitations of the free market and the global corporation. Digital arts are identified as having a vital part to play in this process. Written in a balanced and penetrating style, the book both conveniently summarizes a huge literature and sets a new agenda for research and theory.

Postdigital Aesthetics

Author : D. Berry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137437200
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Postdigital Aesthetics written by D. Berry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world.

Aesthetics of digital poetry

Author : Friedrich W. Block
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of digital poetry written by Friedrich W. Block and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Christiane Heibach and Karin Wenz. Essays by Mark Amerika, Giselle Beiguelman, Friedrich W. Block, Mark Bernstein, Nika Bertram, Simon Biggs, Philippe Bootz, John Cayley, Florian Cramer, Eduardo Kac, Bill Seaman, et al.

Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

Author : Justin Hodgson
Publisher : Rhetoric and Materiality
ISBN 13 : 9780814213940
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic by : Justin Hodgson

Download or read book Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic written by Justin Hodgson and published by Rhetoric and Materiality. This book was released on 2019 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues we are in a post-digital moment, where the blurring between the "real" and the "digital" has fundamentally reconfigured how we make sense of the world.

From Point to Pixel

Author : Meredith Hoy
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
ISBN 13 : 1512600237
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book From Point to Pixel written by Meredith Hoy and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fiercely ambitious study, Meredith Anne Hoy seeks to reestablish the very definitions of digital art and aesthetics in art history. She begins by problematizing the notion of digital aesthetics, tracing the nineteenth- and twentieth-century movements that sought to break art down into its constituent elements, which in many ways predicted and paved the way for our acceptance of digital art. Through a series of case studies, Hoy questions the separation between analog and digital art and finds that while there may be sensual and experiential differences, they fall within the same technological categories. She also discusses computational art, in which the sole act of creation is the building of a self-generating algorithm. The medium isn't the message - what really matters is the degree to which the viewer can sense a creative hand in the art.

Time and the Digital

Author : Timothy Scott Barker
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683017
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Time and the Digital written by Timothy Scott Barker and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original consideration of the temporal in digital art and aesthetics

Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429886144
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation written by Paul Crowther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern naturalization of technology wherein technology becomes something we live in as well as use. The present study establishes these claims by looking at digital art’s historical emergence from the 1960s to the start of the present century. Paul Crowther, using a philosophical approach to art history, considers the first steps towards digital graphics, their development in terms of three-dimensional abstraction and figuration, and then the complexities of their interactive formats.

Materializing New Media

Author : Anna Munster
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611682940
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Materializing New Media written by Anna Munster and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies

Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital

Author : Claire Colebrook
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441155333
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital by : Claire Colebrook

Download or read book Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital written by Claire Colebrook and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of new aspects of Blake's work using the concept of incarnation and drawing on theories of contemporary digital media.

Towards a Digital Epistemology

Author : Jonas Ingvarsson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030787249
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Digital Epistemology written by Jonas Ingvarsson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book explores the concept of digital epistemology. In this context, the digital will not be understood as merely something that is linked to specific tools and objects, but rather as different modes of thought. For example, the digital within the humanities is not just databases and big data, topic modelling and speculative visualizations; nor are the objects limited to computer games, other electronic works, or to literature and art that explicitly relate to computerization or other digital aspects. In what way do digital tools and expressions in the 1960s differ to the ubiquitous systems of our time? What kind of artistic effects does this generate? Is the present theoretical fascination for materiality an effect or a reaction to a digitization? Above all: how can early modern forms such as the cabinets of curiosity, emblem books and the archival principle of pertinence contribute to the analyses of contemporary digital forms?

The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self

Author : Donatella Della Ratta
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030654974
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self written by Donatella Della Ratta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existences online. As social media users we know we’re under surveillance, yet we continue to click, like, love and share ourselves online as if nothing was. So, how do we overcome the current online identity regime? Can we overthrow the rule of Narcissus and destroy the planetary middle class subject? In this catalogue of strategies, the reader will find stories on hacker groups, gaming platforms in the occupied territories, art objects, selfies, augmented reality, Gen Z autoethnographies, love and life. The authors of this anthology believe we cannot simply put vanity aside and a rational analysis of platform capitalism is not going to convince the youngs on TikTok nor liberate us from Zuckerbergian indentured servitude. Do we really need to wade through the subjective mud and ‘learn more’ about online aesthetics? The answer is yes. Writing by Wendy Chun, Franco Berardi “BIFO”, Julia Preisker, Katherine Behar, Rebecca Stein, Fabio Cristiano, Emilio Distretti, Natalie Bookchin, Ana Peraica, Mitra Azar, Donatella Della Ratta, Gabriella Coleman, Marco Deseriis, Alberto Micali, Daniel de Zeeuw, Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Jodi Dean.

Performing Digital Activism

Author : Fidèle A. Vlavo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317434579
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Performing Digital Activism written by Fidèle A. Vlavo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the emergence of digital protest as part of the Zapatista rebellion, to the use of disturbance tactics against governments and commercial institutions, there is no doubt that digital technology and networks have become the standard features of 21st century social mobilisation. Yet, little is known about the historical and socio-cultural developments that have transformed the virtual sphere into a key site of political confrontation. This book provides a critical analysis of the developments of digital direct action since the 1990s. It examines the praxis of electronic protest by focussing on the discourses and narratives provided by the activists and artists involved. The study covers the work of activist groups, including Critical Art Ensemble, Electronic Disturbance Theater and the electrohippies, as well as Anonymous, and proposes a new analytical framework centred on the performative and aesthetic features of contemporary digital activism.

The New Urban Aesthetic

Author : Mónica Montserrat Degen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350070858
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The New Urban Aesthetic written by Mónica Montserrat Degen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Urban Aesthetic explores how cities worldwide are being transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital technologies and 'urban branding' in the name of global capitalism. Both of these shifts entrain new sensory bodily experiences, and this digitally-mediated reconfiguration of what cities feel like is what this book terms the new urban aesthetic. Focussing on major case-studies of urban change from London to Doha, the book explores how different kinds of digital mediation play a central role in urban transformation, from smart city phone apps, to social media interactions, to computer-generated visualisations. The book reveals how different versions of the new urban aesthetic organize different sensory experiences of temporality and spatiality – leading to a new understanding of the way we experience cities today. The New Urban Aesthetic is essential reading for researchers and students in urban studies, architecture, digital studies, sociology, and human geography.

Warez

Author : Martin Paul Eve
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1685710360
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Warez written by Martin Paul Eve and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly research book about this underground subculture, which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites") in the mid- to late-1990s. The “Scene," as it is known, is highly illegal in almost every aspect of its operations. The term “Warez" itself refers to pirated media, a derivative of “software." Taking a deep dive in the documentary evidence produced by the Scene itself, Warez describes the operations and infrastructures an underground culture with its own norms and rules of participation, its own forms of sociality, and its own artistic forms. Even though forms of digital piracy are often framed within ideological terms of equal access to knowledge and culture, Eve uncovers in the Warez Scene a culture of competitive ranking and one-upmanship that is at odds with the often communalist interpretations of piracy. Broad in scope and novel in its approach, Warez is indispensible reading for anyone interested in recent developments in digital culture, access to knowledge and culture, and the infrastructures that support our digital age.