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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825589003321

Autore

Hansen Mark B. N (Mark Boris Nicola), <1965->

Titolo

New philosophy for new media / / Mark B. N. Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2004

ISBN

0-262-27487-6

1-282-10005-X

9786612100055

1-4175-6051-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 333 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Digital art - Philosophy

Digital media - Philosophy

Human body (Philosophy)

Image (Philosophy)

Technology and the arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I -  From Image to Body -- 1 - Between Body and Image: On the "Newness" of New Media Art -- 2 - Framing the Digital Image: Jeffrey Shaw and the Embodied Aesthetics of New Media -- 3 - The Automation of Sight and the Bodily Basis of Vision -- Part II -  The Affect-Body -- 4 - Affect as Interface: Confronting the "Digital Facial Image" -- 5 - What's Virtual about VR? "Reality" as Body-Brain Achievement -- 6 - The Affective Topology of New Media Art -- Part III - Time, Space, and Body -- 7 - Body Times -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A philosophy of new media that defines the digital image as the process by which the body filters information to create images.