Imagery in the 21st Century (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Imagery in the 21st Century
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	2011
Editors:	Oliver Grau (Professor for image Science and Dean of the Department for Cultural Studies)
Contributors:	Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Professor) • Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies) • Martin Schulz • Eduardo Kac • Thomas Veigl • Stefan Heidenreich • Olaf Breidbach • David Steinman
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-52535-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Other graphic art forms > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General Promotions
LSN:	0-262-52535-6
Barcode:	9780262525350

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