Leading media scholars consider the social and cultural changes that come with the contemporary development of ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers, movies, and high-resolution advertising displays. Technology has become at once larger…
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences.
This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.
"Bown explores the developments in machines and software that can create or support art, music, literature, and other creative artifacts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Introduces a new field of study adapted from STS that the author refers to as art, science, and technology studies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The merging of the autobiographical with the philosophical or theoretical traced through feminist conceptual art, performance art, literature, philosophy, and activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Visusalization argues for the importance of using traditional humanistic methodologies for the interpretation of graphical images (bar graphs, pie charts, network diagrams, etc.)"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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In ' Liquidation World', Alexi Kukuljevic examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the darkly humorous and utterly disoriented subject of modernity, a dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an object of its absence. Shorn of the truly rotten illusion that the world is a fulfilling and meaningful place, these subjects identify themselves by a…
This work provides perspectives on the voice and technology from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.