Technovisuality : cultural re-enchantment and the experience of technology / edited by Helen Grace, Amy Chan Kit-Sze and Wong Kin Yuen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Amy Kit-sze, editor.

Grace, Helen, 1949- editor.

Yuen, Wong Kin, editor.

Series:

International library of visual culture ; 21.

International library of visual culture ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-computer interaction.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Visual communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

"How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in the forms of video games, scientific data, virtual environments and architectural renderings. Fearful and anti-visualist responses to this phenomenon abound. Spread by digital technologies, images are thought to threaten the word and privilege surface value over content. Yet as they multiply, images face unprecedented competition for attention. This book explores the opportunities that can arise from the ubiquity of visual stimuli. It reveals that 'technovisuality' - the fusion of digital technology with the visual - can work 'wonders'; not so much dazzling audiences with special effects as reviving our enchantment with popular culture. Introducing a new term for an entirely new field of academic study, this book reveals the centrality of 'technovisuality' in 21st century life"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Section 1: Wondering. 1. The 'Thousand-Mile Eye' and the Image-less Elephant: Imag(in)ing the Universe in Eco-poetics and Philosophy / Wong Kin Yuen

2. The World, Time / D. N. Rodowick

3. Technologies of Enchantment: Figures of Wonder in Cyberfiction / Veronica Hollinger

4. The Birth of Wonder in the Database Economy / Sean Cubitt

Section 2: Perceiving. 5. The Performative Archive: New Conceptions of the Archive in Contemporary Theory, Art and New Media Practices / Eivind Ressaak

6. Visualizing the Universe: Mandala and Buddhist Cosmology as Technovisual Embodiment / Amy Chan Kit-Sze

7. Meditation-Image as Transfiguration of Experience: Bill Viola's Video Art / Nevena Ivanovo

Section 3: Experiencing. 8. Tracking the Screen in Public Spaces: Everyday Dis/Enchantment / Chris Berry and Janet Harbord

9. Screens and Imagination: Technovisuality and Consumption in Hong Kong Urbanscapes / Felix Loi Ho Man

10. Multiple Modernities and the Imaging of Uselessness in Contemporary Chinese Cinema / Michelle Huang Tsung-yi and Chi-She Li.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283), filmography (page 283) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780755694952

0755694953

9780857725639

0857725637

9780857739193

0857739190

OCLC:

1128162418