Imagery in the 21st Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-262-52535-0
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 785 g

Reihe: The MIT Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grau, Oliver

Weitere Mitwirkende

Veigl, Thomas

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong

Cubitt, Sean

Schulz, Martin

Kac, Eduardo

Heidenreich, Stefan

Breidbach, Olaf

Steinman, David

Steinman, Dolores

Elkins, James

Mignonneau, Christa Sommerer

Angerer, Marie-Luise

Weibel, Peter

Cheok, Adrian

Roth, Tim Otto

Deutsch, Andreas

Kraemer, Harald

Manovich, Lev

Warnke, Martin

Grau, Oliver

Kemp, Martin

Douglass, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation

Über Autor(innen)

Grau, Oliver
Oliver Grau is Professor for Image Science and Dean of the Department for Cultural Studies at Danube University. He is the author of Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (2003) and editor of MediaArtHistories (2007), both published by the MIT Press.

Cubitt, Sean
Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of The Cinema Effect and the coeditor of Relive: Media Art Histories, both published by the MIT Press.

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, who has studied both systems design and English literature, is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, both published by the MIT Press.

Kac, Eduardo
Eduardo Kac is an internationally renowned artist who has received critical acclaim for net and bio works including Genesis, GFP Bunny, and Move 36. His work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among others.

Weibel, Peter
Peter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. He is the editor or coeditor of other ZKM volumes including ICONOCLASH, Making Things Public, Sound Art, Global Activism, and Critical Zones (all published by the MIT Press).

Manovich, Lev
Lev Manovich is Professor in the PhD Program in Computer Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press), hailed as “the most suggestive and broad-ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan,” and other books.

Douglass, Jeremy
Jeremy Douglass is a postdoctoral researcher in software studies at the University of California, San Diego, in affiliation with Calit2.

Grau, Oliver
Oliver Grau is Professor for Image Science and Dean of the Department for Cultural Studies at Danube University. He is the author of Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (2003) and editor of MediaArtHistories (2007), both published by the MIT Press.

Veigl, Thomas
Thomas Veigl is on the scientific staff of the Department for Image Science at the Danube– University Krems.

Oliver Grau is Professor for Image Science and Dean of the Department for Cultural Studies at Danube University. He is the author of Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (2003) and editor of MediaArtHistories (2007), both published by the MIT Press.