MediaArtHistories / edited by Oliver Grau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grau, Oliver.

Series:

Leonardo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and technology.

Art and science.

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Physical Description:

xii, 475 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. (some col.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Mediaart histories

Media art histories

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in new media art studies and practice.

Contents:

The coming and going of images / Rudolf Arnheim

It is forbidden not to touch : some remarks on the (forgotten parts of the) history of interactivity and virtuality / Peter Weibel

Historicizing art and technology : forging a method and firing a canon / Edward A. Shanken

Twin-touch-test-redux : media archaeological approach to art, interactivity, and tactility / Erkki Huhtamo

Duchamp : interface : turing : a hypothetical encounter between the bachelor machine and the universal machine / Dieter Daniels

Remember the phantasmagoria! Illusion politics of the eighteenth century and its multimedial afterlife / Oliver Grau

Islamic automation : a reading of Al-Jazari's The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices (1206) / Gunalan Nadarajan

The automatization of figurative techniques : toward the autonomous image / Edmond Couchot

Image, process, performance, machinic / Andreas Broeckmann

From film to interactive art : transformations in media arts / Ryszard W. Kluszczynski

The passage from material to interface / Louise Poissant

The myth of immateriality : presenting and preserving new media / Christiane Paul

Device art : a new approach in understanding Japanese contemporary media art / Machiko Kusahara

Projecting minds / Ron Burnett

Abstraction and complexity / Lev Manovich

Making studies in new media critical / Timothy Lenoir

Image, meaning, and discovery / Felice Frankel

There are no visual media / W.J.T. Mitchell

Projection : vanishing and becoming / Sean Cubitt

Between a Bach and a bard place : productive constraint in early computer arts / Douglas Kahn

Picturing uncertainty : from representation to mental representation / Barbara Maria Stafford.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-262-31154-2

1-282-09862-4

9786612098628

0-262-27425-6

OCLC:

191929212