Softimage : towards a new theory of the digital image / / Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie

• Autore: Hoelzl Ingrid
• Pubblicazione: Bristol, England ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : Intellect, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 775
• Soggetto topico: Photography - Digital techniques
• Persona (resp. second.): MarieRémi
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Moving Stills (The Ken Burns Effect); Chapter 2: Expanded Photography (The Desire for Endlessness); Chapter 3: The Photographic Now (From Sign to Signal); Chapter 4: In the Matrix (From Geometry to Algorithm); Chapter 5: The Operative Image (Google Street View: The World as Database); Chapter 6: In the Urban Data-Space (The Image as Moment of Network Access); Conclusion: Softimage; Bibliography; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: With Today'S Digital Technology, the Image Is No Longer a Stable Representation of the World, but a Programmable View of a Database That Is Updated in Real Time. It No Longer Functions as a Political and Iconic Representation, but Plays a Vital Role in Synchronic Data-Todata Relationships. It Is Not Only Part of a Programme, but It Contains Its Own 'Operating Code': It Is a Programme in Itself. Softimage Aims to Account for That New Reality, Taking Readers on a Journey That Gradually Undoes Our Unthinking Reliance on the Apparent Solidity of the Photographic Image and Building in Its Place an
• Titolo autorizzato: Softimage
• ISBN: 1-78320-504-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797405303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II