New philosophy for new media / Mark B. N. Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Mark B. N. (Mark Boris Nicola), 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Computer art--Philosophy.

Computer art.

Digital media--Philosophy.

Digital media.

Human body (Philosophy).

Image (Philosophy).

Technology and the arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 333 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, [2004].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A philosophy of new media that defines the digital image as the process by which the body filters information to create images.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Part I - From Image to Body

1 - Between Body and Image: On the "Newness" of New Media Art

2 - Framing the Digital Image: Jeffrey Shaw and the Embodied Aesthetics of New Media

3 - The Automation of Sight and the Bodily Basis of Vision

Part II - The Affect-Body

4 - Affect as Interface: Confronting the "Digital Facial Image"

5 - What's Virtual about VR? "Reality" as Body-Brain Achievement

6 - The Affective Topology of New Media Art

Part III - Time, Space, and Body

7 - Body Times

Conclusion

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version :

Hansen, Mark B.N. New philosophy for new media.

ISBN:

9786612100055

9780262274876

0262274876

9781282100053

128210005X

9781417560516

1417560517

OCLC:

57183567