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Aesthetic Computing

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 In Aesthetic Computing, key scholars and practitioners from art, design, computer science, and mathematics lay the foundations for a discipline that applies the theory and practice of art to computing. Aesthetic computing explores the way art and aesthetics can play a role in different areas of computer science. One of its goals is to modify computer science by the application of the wide range of definitions and categories normally associated with making art. For example, structures in computing might be represented using the style of Gaudi or the Bauhaus school. This goes beyond the usual definition of aesthetics in computing, which most often refers to the formal, abstract qualities of such structures-a beautiful proof, or an elegant diagram. The contributors to this book discuss the broader spectrum of aesthetics-from abstract qualities of symmetry and form to ideas of creative expression and pleasure-in the context of computer science. The assumption behind aesthetic computing is that the field of computing will be enriched if it embraces all of aesthetics. Human-computer interaction will benefit-"usability," for example, could refer to improving a user's emotional state-and new models of learning will emerge.Aesthetic Computing approaches its subject from a variety of perspectives. After defining the field and placing it in its historical context, the book looks at art and design, mathematics and computing, and interface and interaction. Contributions range from essays on the art of visualization and "the poesy of programming" to discussions of the aesthetics of mathematics throughout history and transparency and reflectivity in interface design.ContributorsJames Alty, Olav W. Bertelsen, Jay David Bolter, Donna Cox, Stephan Diehl, Mark d'Inverno, Michele Emmer, Paul Fishwick, Monica Fleischmann, Ben Fry, Carsten Gorg, Susanne Grabowski, Diane Gromala, Kenneth A. Huff, John Lee, Frederic Fol Leymarie, Michael Leyton, Jonas Lowgren, Roger F. Malina, Laurent Mignonneau, Frieder Nake, Ray Paton, Jane Prophet, Aaron Quigley, Casey Reas, Christa Sommerer, Wolfgang Strauss, Noam Tractinksy, Paul Vickers, Dror Zmiri
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Code - Collaborative Ownership And The Digital Economy - Collaborative Ownership And The Digital Economy

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 The contributors to Code, from such diverse fields as economics, anthropology, law, and software development, examine collaborative creativity from a variety of perspectives, looking at new and old forms of creative collaboration and the mechanisms emerging to study them.
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Strip - Las Vegas And The Architecture Of The American Dream

by Stefan Al

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 The transformations of the Strip--from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to "starchitecture"--and how they mirror America itself.
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Practice Of Light - A Genealogy Of Visual Technologies From Prints To Pixels

by Sean Cubitt

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 An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light''s intrinsic excess.Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are our most important explorations of this condition. The history of visual technologies reveals a centuries-long project aimed at controlling light. In this book, Sean Cubitt traces a genealogy of the dominant visual media of the twenty-first century—digital video, film, and photography—through a history of materials and practices that begins with the inventions of intaglio printing and oil painting. Attending to the specificities of inks and pigments, cathode ray tubes, color film, lenses, screens, and chips, Cubitt argues that we have moved from a hierarchical visual culture focused on semantic values to a more democratic but value-free numerical commodity.Cubitt begins with the invisibility of black, then builds from line to surface to volume and space. He describes Rembrandt''s attempts to achieve pure black by tricking the viewer and the rise of geometry as a governing principle in visual technology, seen in Dürer, Hogarth, and Disney, among others. He finds the origins of central features of digital imaging in nineteenth-century printmaking; examines the clash between the physics and psychology of color; explores the representation of space in shadows, layers, and projection; discusses modes of temporal order in still photography, cinema, television, and digital video; and considers the implications of a political aesthetics of visual technology.
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Experience Machine - Stan Vanderbeek''S Movie-Drome And Expanded Cinema

by Gloria Sutton

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 An argument that the collaborative multimedia projects produced by Stan VanDerBeek in the 1960s and 1970s anticipate contemporary new media and participatory art practices.
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Tone Of Our Times - Sound, Sense, Economy, And Ecology

by Frances Dyson

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 Sound, tone, music, voice, and noise as forms of sonority through which our current economic and ecological crises can be understood.
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Hybrid Culture - Japanese Media Arts In Dialogue With The West

by Yvonne Spielmann

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 An exploration of the tensions between East and West and digital and analog in Japanese new-media art.
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New Media Poetics - Contexts, Technotexts, And Theories

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 A collection of writings on poetry that is composed, disseminated, and read on computers. This book extends our understanding of the computer as an expressive medium. It traces the lineage of media poetry through sound poetics, procedural writing, gestural abstraction and conceptual art, and activist communities formed by emergent poetics.
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Digital Dialectic - New Essays On New Media

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 How our visual and intellectual cultures are changed by the new interaction-based media and technologies.Computers linked to networks have created the first broadly used systems that allow individuals to create, distribute, and receive audiovisual content with the same box. They challenge theorists of digital culture to develop interaction-based models to replace the more primitive models that allow only passive use.The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms.Contributors Florian Brody, Carol Gigliotti, N. Katherine Hayles, Michael Heim, Erkki Huhtamo, George P. Landow, Brenda Laurel, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev Manovich, William J. Mitchell, Bob Stein
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Closer - Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology

by Susan Kozel

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 Offers entwinements between experience and reflection that shed light on, problematize, or restructure scholarly approaches to human bodies using digital technologies. This book applies the phenomenological method to the experience of designing and performing in a range of computational systems: telematics, and responsive architectures.
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Signs Of Life - Bio Art And Beyond

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 Talks about the theory and practice of bio art, an art form that uses the materials and processes of biotechnology. Containing examples of work by prominent artists, such as Eduardo Kac and Marc Quinn, this title considers the culture and aesthetics of biotechnology, the ethical and philosophical aspects of bio art, and biology in art history.
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Mediaarthistories

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 Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions. This work takes a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. It demonstrates that media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history.
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At A Distance - Precursors To Art And Activism On The Internet

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 The theory and practice of networked art and activism, including mail art, sound art, telematic art, fax art, Fluxus, and assemblings.
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Mediaarthistories

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 Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in new media art studies and practice.
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Rethinking Curating - Art After New Media

by Beryl Graham e Sarah (Dundee Fellow, University Of Dundee) Cook

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From Fingers To Digits - An Artificial Aesthetic

by Ernest A. (Professor Of Computational Art, De Montfort University) Edmonds e Margaret A. (Research Professor Of Cognitive Science, University Of Sussex) Boden

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Virtual Menageries - Animals As Mediators In Network Cultures

by Jody (Professor, York University) Berland

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Invisible Colors - The Arts Of The Atomic Age

by Gabrielle (Associate Professor, Kyushu University) Decamous

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Modernizing America'S Electricity Infrastructure

by Mason Willrich

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 A comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing America's electricity infrastructure while ensuring affordable, reliable, secure, and environmentally sustainable electricity services.
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Biological Clocks, Rhythms, And Oscillations - The Theory Of Biological Timekeeping

by Daniel B. (Professor, University Of Michigan) Forger

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 An introduction to the mathematical, computational, and analytical techniques used for modeling biological rhythms, presenting tools from many disciplines and example applications.
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The Environmental Humanities - A Critical Introduction

by David E. (Professor, University Of Southern Denmark) Nye e Robert S. (Visiting Assistant Professor, Roanoke College) Emmett

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 A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies.
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Ecstatic Worlds - Media, Utopias, Ecologies

by Janine (York University) Marchessault

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 Forthcoming from the MIT Press.
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Making Sense - Cognition, Computing, Art, And Embodiment

by Simon (Professor Of Arts And Engineering, Claire Trevor School Of The Arts) Penny

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 Why embodied approaches to cognition are better able to address the performative dimensions of art than the dualistic conceptions fundamental to theories of digital computing.
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True Enough

by Catherine Z. (Professor Of The Philosophy Of Education, Harvard University) Elgin

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