Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 288 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857739190
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1784530344
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9780755694952
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9780857739193
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9781784530341
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9780857725639
Series Statement:
International library of visual culture 21
Content:
"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
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283), filmography (page 283) and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781784530341
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Technovisuality London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755694952
