TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolf,Mark J.P.
TI  - Abstracting reality: art, communication, and cognition in the digital age 
SN  - 0761816682 (paperback : alk. paper)
AV  - HM851. W65 2000
U1  - 303.4833 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Lanham, MD
PB  - University Press of America
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Technology and the arts
KW  - Communication and technology
KW  - Technology and civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; I; The Emergence of Digital Technology --; 1; The Quantization of Everyday Life --; Divide and Conquer --; Time --; Space --; Value --; Information --; Growing Number? Quantization and Thought --; 2; Digital Technology Develops --; Binary Numbering --; Early Digital Inventions --; Into the Computer Age --; II; Art --; 3; 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 --; 4; Cultural Biases Inherent in Digitization --; The Economics of Representation --; Economical Representation --; Text Displays --; Digital Culture --; 5; The Composite Image --; In-camera Compositing --; Optical Compositing --; Digital Compositing --; Limitations and Spatiotemporal Defects --; Theoretical and Narrative Implications --; Hierarchies of Elements --; III; Communication / Media --; 6; Machine Mediation of Social Interaction --; Group Interaction vs. Groups of Interactions --; Layers of Mediation Between Individuals --; Interactivity --; 7; The Metaphor of Cyberspace --; Degrees of Disengagement --; Spatial Structures --; Social Structures --; IV; Perception / Representation / Cognition --; 8; The Digital Environment --; Dis-integration and Reintegration --; Approach and Engulfment --; Abstraction and Invisibility --; 9; Virtual Reality and Other Substitutes --; Reality vs. Virtual Reality --; Virtual Reality Fantasies --; Acceptable Substitutes? --; 10; Indexicality --; Senses and Signals --; A Grain of Truth? --; Subjunctive Documentary --; Spheres of Indexicality --; Epilogue
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