'Spielmann describes the innovative technology context in Japan, in which developers, engineers, and artists collaborate, and traces the Japanese fondness for precision and functionality to the poetics of unobtrusiveness and detail. She examines work by artists including Masaki Fujihata, whose art is both formally and thematically hybrid; Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa, who build special devices for a new sense of human-machine interaction; Toshio Iwai, who connects traditional media forms with computing; and Tatsuo Miyajima, who anchors his LED artwork in Buddhist philosophy. Spielmann views hybridity as a positive aesthetic value — perhaps the defining aesthetic of a global culture. Hybridity offers a conceptual approach for considering the ambivalent linkages of contradictory elements; its dynamic and fluid characteristics are neither conclusive nor categorical but are meant to stimulate fusions.' (Front book flap)
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Masaki FUJIHATA, 藤幡正樹, 
Sota ICHIKAWA, 市川創太, 
Toshio IWAI, 岩井俊雄, 
Seiko MIKAMI, 三上晴子, 
English
digital art,  visual culture,  cultural studies,  Japan
2013
368
9780262018371
1
monograph
Introduction
Part I
Medial and Cultural Diversity
Hybrid Phenomena
Hybrid Conditions
Criticism of Media and Culture
Part II
Discourses on Hybridisation
Interrelationships
In-between Zones -- In-between Spaces
Part III
Interactivity and Virtuality
Aesthetics of Intervention
Positive Hybridisation
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