Technovisuality :: cultural re-enchantment and the experience of technology /

"How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in the forms of video games, scientific data, virtual environments and architectural renderings. Fearful and anti-visualist responses to this pheno...

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Weitere Verfasser: Grace, Helen, 1949- (HerausgeberIn), Chan, Amy Kit-sze (HerausgeberIn), Yuen, Wong Kin (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
Schriftenreihe:International library of visual culture ; 21.
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Zusammenfassung:"How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in the forms of video games, scientific data, virtual environments and architectural renderings. Fearful and anti-visualist responses to this phenomenon abound. Spread by digital technologies, images are thought to threaten the word and privilege surface value over content. Yet as they multiply, images face unprecedented competition for attention. This book explores the opportunities that can arise from the ubiquity of visual stimuli. It reveals that 'technovisuality' - the fusion of digital technology with the visual - can work 'wonders'; not so much dazzling audiences with special effects as reviving our enchantment with popular culture. Introducing a new term for an entirely new field of academic study, this book reveals the centrality of 'technovisuality' in 21st century life"--Publisher's website
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283), filmography (page 283) and index.
ISBN:9780857739193
0857739190