Sensing and Making Sense: Photosensitivity and Light-to-sound Translations in Media Art

Sensing and Making Sense: Photosensitivity and Light-to-sound Translations in Media Art
ISBN-10
3839453313
ISBN-13
9783839453315
Category
Social Science
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2020-12-31
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Author
Graziele Lautenschlaeger

Description

Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new materialism, media archaeology, cultural techniques and second-order cybernetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alternative perspective, elucidating photosensitivity as a metonymy to provide guidelines to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians - especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.

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