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

Sensing and Making Sense: Photosensitivity and Light-to-sound Translations in Media Art (Media Studies)
by: Graziele Lautenschlaeger (Author)
Publisher:Transcript Verlag
Publication Date: 15 Dec. 2020
Language:English
Print Length:264 pages
ISBN-10:3837653315
ISBN-13:9783837653311
Book 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.
About the Author
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.