Abstracting reality : art, communication, and cognition in the digital age /
Wolf, Mark J. P.
Abstracting reality : art, communication, and cognition in the digital age / Mark J.P. Wolf. - xii, 319 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The Emergence of Digital Technology -- The Quantization of Everyday Life -- Divide and Conquer -- Time -- Space -- Value -- Information -- Growing Number? Quantization and Thought -- Digital Technology Develops -- Binary Numbering -- Early Digital Inventions -- Into the Computer Age -- Art -- The Work of Art in the Digital Age -- Production -- Preservation, Restoration, and Exhibition -- The Return of Aura and Cult Value -- Links Back to the Physical -- Digital Models vs. Physical Models -- The Leveling of Dimensionality -- Cultural Biases Inherent in Digitization -- The Economics of Representation -- Economical Representation -- Text Displays -- Digital Culture -- The Composite Image -- In-camera Compositing -- Optical Compositing -- Digital Compositing -- Limitations and Spatiotemporal Defects -- Theoretical and Narrative Implications -- Hierarchies of Elements -- Communication / Media -- Machine Mediation of Social Interaction -- Group Interaction vs. Groups of Interactions -- Layers of Mediation Between Individuals -- Interactivity -- The Metaphor of Cyberspace -- Degrees of Disengagement -- Spatial Structures -- Social Structures -- Perception / Representation / Cognition -- The Digital Environment -- Dis-integration and Reintegration -- Approach and Engulfment -- Abstraction and Invisibility -- Virtual Reality and Other Substitutes -- Reality vs. Virtual Reality -- Virtual Reality Fantasies -- Acceptable Substitutes? -- Indexicality -- Senses and Signals -- A Grain of Truth? -- Subjunctive Documentary -- Spheres of Indexicality -- Epilogue. I. 1. 2. II. 3. 4. 5. III. 6. 7. IV. 8. 9. 10.
0761816682 (paperback : alk. paper) 0761816674 (cloth : alk. paper)
00022437
Digital media--Social aspects
Technology and the arts
Communication and technology
Technology and civilization
HM851. / W65 2000
303.4833
Abstracting reality : art, communication, and cognition in the digital age / Mark J.P. Wolf. - xii, 319 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The Emergence of Digital Technology -- The Quantization of Everyday Life -- Divide and Conquer -- Time -- Space -- Value -- Information -- Growing Number? Quantization and Thought -- Digital Technology Develops -- Binary Numbering -- Early Digital Inventions -- Into the Computer Age -- Art -- The Work of Art in the Digital Age -- Production -- Preservation, Restoration, and Exhibition -- The Return of Aura and Cult Value -- Links Back to the Physical -- Digital Models vs. Physical Models -- The Leveling of Dimensionality -- Cultural Biases Inherent in Digitization -- The Economics of Representation -- Economical Representation -- Text Displays -- Digital Culture -- The Composite Image -- In-camera Compositing -- Optical Compositing -- Digital Compositing -- Limitations and Spatiotemporal Defects -- Theoretical and Narrative Implications -- Hierarchies of Elements -- Communication / Media -- Machine Mediation of Social Interaction -- Group Interaction vs. Groups of Interactions -- Layers of Mediation Between Individuals -- Interactivity -- The Metaphor of Cyberspace -- Degrees of Disengagement -- Spatial Structures -- Social Structures -- Perception / Representation / Cognition -- The Digital Environment -- Dis-integration and Reintegration -- Approach and Engulfment -- Abstraction and Invisibility -- Virtual Reality and Other Substitutes -- Reality vs. Virtual Reality -- Virtual Reality Fantasies -- Acceptable Substitutes? -- Indexicality -- Senses and Signals -- A Grain of Truth? -- Subjunctive Documentary -- Spheres of Indexicality -- Epilogue. I. 1. 2. II. 3. 4. 5. III. 6. 7. IV. 8. 9. 10.
0761816682 (paperback : alk. paper) 0761816674 (cloth : alk. paper)
00022437
Digital media--Social aspects
Technology and the arts
Communication and technology
Technology and civilization
HM851. / W65 2000
303.4833