'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 informatio 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 neurosciences 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. The goal is to expand visual competence in investigating new visual worlds and to build cross-disciplinary exchanges among the arts, humanities, and natural sciences.' (front flap of the book)

Biographies of contributors included.
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Onsite

Location code
REF.GRO
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

410

ISBN / ISSN

9780262015721

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

1 Introduction: Imagery in the 21st Century - Oliver GRAU, Thomas VEIGL

Ⅰ Image Phenomena of the 21st Century

2 Current Screens - Sean CUBITT

3 The Unmasking of Images: The Anachronism of TV-Faces - Martin SCHULZ

4 Bio Art: From Genesis to Natural History of the Enigma - Eduardo KAC

5 Machinima: On the Invention and Innovation of a New Visual Media Technology - Thomas VEIGL

6 Steps toward Collaborative Video: Time and Authorship - Stefan HEIDENREICH

7 Imaging Science: The Pictorial Turn in Bio- and Neurosciences - Olaf BREIDBACH

8 Toward New Conventions for Visualizing Blood Flow in the Era of Fascination with Visibility and Imagery - Dolores STEINMAN, David STEINMAN

9 Visual Practices across the University: A Report - James ELKINS

Ⅱ Critical Terms of the 21st Century

10 On Sourcery, or Code as Fetish - Wendy Huikyong CHUN

11 Cultural Interfaces: Interaction Revisited - Christa SOMMERER, Laurent MIGNONNEAU

12 Feeling the Image: Some Critical Notes on Affect - Marie-Luise ANGERER

13 Web 2.0 and the Museum - Peter WEIBEL

14 Kawaii: Cute Interactive Media - Adrian David CHEOK

15 Universal Synthesizer and Window: Cellular Automata as a New Kind of Cybernetic Image - Tim Otto ROTH, Andreas DEUTSCH

16 Interdependence and Consequence: En Route toward a Grammar of Hypermedia Communication Design - Harald KRAEMER

Ⅲ New Tools for Us: Strategies for Image Anlysis

17 Visualizing Change: Computer Graphics as a Research Method - Lev MANOVICH, Jeremy DOUGLASS

18 'God is in the Details,' or The Filing Box Answers - Martin WARNKE

19 Media Art's Challenge to Our Societies - Oliver GRAU

Ⅳ Coda

20 In and Out of Time: Is There Anything New Under the Cyber-Sun? - Martin KEMP

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