'Marks proposes an aesthetics of unfolding and enfolding in which image, information, and the infinite interact: image is an interface to information, and information (such as computer code or the words of the Qur’an) is an interface to the infinite. After demonstrating historically how Islamic aesthetics traveled into Western art, Marks draws explicit parallels between works of classical Islamic art and new media art, describing texts that burst into image, lines that multiply to form fractal spaces, “nonorganic life” in carpets and algorithms, and other shared concepts and images. Islamic philosophy, she suggests, can offer fruitful ways of understanding contemporary art.' (Front book flap)
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English
digital art,  Islam
2010
408
9780262014212
1
monograph
Getting Things Unfolded
Islamic Aesthetics and New Meida Art: Points of Contact
The Haptic Transfer and the Travels of the Abstract Line, Part I
The Haptic Transfer and the Travels of the Abstract Line, Part II
The Haptic Transfer and the Travels of the Abstract Line, Part III
Baghdad, 830: Birth of the Algorithm
Baghdad, 1000: Origin of the Pixel
Cairo, 972: Ancestor of the Morph
Herat, 1487: Early Virtual Reality
Karabagh, 1700: Seeds of Artificial Life
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