Imagery in the 21st Century (eBook)

Oliver Grau (Herausgeber)

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2011
416 Seiten
The MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-31515-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Scholars from science, art, and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis.We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today's information explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images seem capable of changing interactively or even autonomously. This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on these new image worlds and new analytical approaches to the visual.Imagery in the 21st Century examines this revolution in various fields, with researchers from the natural sciences and the humanities meeting to achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning and impact of the image in our time. The contributors explore and discuss new critical terms of multidisciplinary scope, from database economy to the dramaturgy of hypermedia, from visualizations in neuroscience to the image in bio art. They consider the power of the image in the development of human consciousness, pursue new definitions of visual phenomena, and examine new tools for image research and visual analysis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2011
• Co-Autor: Marie-Luise Angerer, Stefan Heidenreich, Eduardo Kac, Martin Kemp, Harald Kraemer, Lev Manovich, Christa Sommerer Mignonneau, Tim Otto Roth, Martin Schulz, David Steinman, Dolores Steinman, Olaf Breidbach, Thomas Veigl, Martin Warnke, Peter Weibel, Adrian Cheok, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Sean Cubitt, Andreas Deutsch, Jeremy Douglass, JAMES ELKINS, Oliver Grau
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-262-31515-7 / 0262315157
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-31515-9 / 9780262315159