TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marks,Laura U.
TI  - Enfoldment and infinity: an Islamic genealogy of new media art 
T2  - Leonardo
SN  - 0262014211
AV  - NX456.5.N49 M37 2010
U1  - 704.088297 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - New media art
KW  - Islam and art
KW  - Aesthetics, Arab
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Getting things unfolded -- Islamic aesthetics and new media art: points of contact -- The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, Part I -- The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, Part II -- The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, Part III -- Baghdad, 830: birth of the algorithm -- Baghdad, 1000: origin of the pixel -- Cairo, 972: ancestor of the morph -- Herat, 1487: early virtual reality -- Karabagh, 1700: seeds of artificial life
N2  - "In both classical Islamic art and contemporary new media art, one point can unfold to reveal an entire universe. A fourteenth-century dome decorated with geometric complexity and a new media work that shapes a dome from programmed beams of light: both can inspire feelings of immersion and transcendence. In Enfoldment and Infinity, Laura Marks traces the strong similarities, visual and philosophical, between these two kinds of art. Her argument is more than metaphorical; she shows that the “Islamic” quality of modern and new media art is a latent, deeply enfolded, historical inheritance from Islamic art and thought."--Publisher's website
ER  -