Technovisuality

Cultural Re-Enchantment and the Experience of Technology

AvHelen Grace,Amy Chan Kit-Sze

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Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in the forms of video games, scientific data, virtual environments and architectural renderings. Fearful and anti-visualist responses to this phenomenon abound. Spread by digital technologies, images are thought to threaten the word and privilege surface value over content. Yet as they multiply, images face unprecedented competition for attention. This book explores the opportunities that can arise from the ubiquity of visual stimuli. It reveals that 'technovisuality' - the fusion of digital technology with the visual - can work 'wonders'; not so much dazzling audiences with special effects as reviving our enchantment with popular culture. Introducing a new term for an entirely new field of academic study, this book reveals the centrality of 'technovisuality' in 21st century life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-12-23
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780857739193
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Helen Grace is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies and Research Affiliate in the Sydney College of the Arts, at the University of Sydney. Previously, she established the MA Programme in Visual Culture Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong as a visiting scholar.

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List of IllustrationsContributorsIntroduction – Helen GraceTechnovisuality: Cultural Re-enchantment and the Experience of TechnologyChapter One – Wong Kin-YuenThe 'Thousand-Mile Eye' and the Image-less Elephant: Imag(in)ing the Universe in Eco-poetics and PhilosophyChapter Two – D.N. RodowickThe World, TimeChapter Three – Veronica HollingerTechnologies of Enchantment: Figures of Wonder in CyberfictionChapter Four – Sean CubittThe Birth of Wonder in the Database EconomyChapter Five – Eivind RøssaakThe Performative Archive: New Conceptions of the Archive in Contemporary Theory, Art and New Media PracticesChapter Six – Amy Chan Kit-szeVisualising the Universe: Mandala and Buddhist Cosmology as Technovisual EmbodimentChapter Seven – Nevena IvanovaMeditation-Image as Transfiguration of Experience: An Analysis of Bill Viola's Video ArtChapter Eight – Chris Berry and Janet HarbordTracking the Screen in Public Spaces: Everyday Dis/EnchantmentChapter Nine – Loi Ho ManScreens and Imagination: Technovisuality and Consumption in Hong Kong UrbanscapesChapter Ten – Tsung-yi Michelle Huang and Chi-she LiMultiple Modernities and the Imaging of Uselessness in Contemporary Chinese CinemaBibliographyIndex