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Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
Anna Munster
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Description for Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
Paperback. A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies Num Pages: 256 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: ABA; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 392.
In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, Munster seeks to materialize digital culture by demonstrating that its aesthetics have reconfigured bodily experience and reconceived materiality. Her topics range from artistic experiments in body-computer interfaces to the impact that corporeal interaction and geopolitical circumstances have on producing new media art and culture. She argues that new media, materiality, perception, and artistic practices now mutually constitute information aesthetics. Information aesthetics is concerned ... Read more
In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, Munster seeks to materialize digital culture by demonstrating that its aesthetics have reconfigured bodily experience and reconceived materiality. Her topics range from artistic experiments in body-computer interfaces to the impact that corporeal interaction and geopolitical circumstances have on producing new media art and culture. She argues that new media, materiality, perception, and artistic practices now mutually constitute information aesthetics. Information aesthetics is concerned ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
392g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9781584655589
SKU
V9781584655589
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99-1
About Anna Munster
ANNA MUNSTER is a senior lecturer in digital media theory at the School of Art History and Theory, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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British Journal of Aesthetics [A]n excellent read.
British Journal of Aesthetics [A]n excellent read. British Journal of Aesthetics Feminist Studies [A]n excellent read. British Journal of Aesthetics Munster emphasizes . . . connections between the organic and artificial, senses and thought, and arts and sciences rather than ... Read more