The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New MediaPeter Lunenfeld Computers linked to networks have created the first broadly used systems that allow individuals to create, distribute, and receive audiovisual content with the same box. They challenge theorists of digital culture to develop interaction-based models to replace the more primitive models that allow only passive use. The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms. Contributors: Florian Brody, Carol Gigliotti, N. Katherine Hayles, Michael Heim, Erkki Huhtamo, George P. Landow, Brenda Laurel, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev Manovich, William J. Mitchell, Bob Stein. |
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New Essays on New Media Peter Lunenfeld. To Gerald O'Grady for what he built SERIES FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Contents V111 ix xi CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION SCREEN.
... SCREEN GRABS : THE DIGITAL DIALECTIC AND NEW MEDIA THEORY xiv I The Real and the Ideal 1 UNFINISHED BUSINESS , Peter Lunenfeld 6 2 THE CYBERSPACE DIALECTIC , Michael Heim 24 3 THE ETHICAL Life of the DIGITAL AESTHETIC , Carol Gigliotti ...
... Screen 10 " WE COULD BE BETTER ANCESTORS THAN THIS " : ETHICS AND FIRST PRINCIPLES FOR THE ART OF THE DIGITAL AGE , Bob Stein 11 MUSINGS ON AMUSEMENTS IN AMERICA , OR WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION , Brenda Laurel 198 214 NOTES 236 ...
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