Technologies Of Seeing
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Author | : Brian Winston |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 183871846X |
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This text examines the complex forces pushing and constraining technological developments in cinema. It contests the view that technological advance is simply the result of scientific progress. Rather, the author argues that social forces control the media technology agenda at every stage.
Author | : Steve F Anderson |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2017-10-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0262343347 |
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An investigation of the computational turn in visual culture, centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and images. If the twentieth century was tyrannized by images, then the twenty-first is ruled by data. In Technologies of Vision, Steve Anderson argues that visual culture and the methods developed to study it have much to teach us about today's digital culture; but first we must examine the historically entangled relationship between data and images. Anderson starts from the supposition that there is no great divide separating pre- and post-digital culture. Rather than creating an insular field of new and inaccessible discourse, he argues, it is more productive to imagine that studying “the digital” is coextensive with critical models—especially the politics of seeing and knowing—developed for understanding “the visual.” Anderson's investigation takes on an eclectic array of examples ranging from virtual reality, culture analytics, and software art to technologies for computer vision, face recognition, and photogrammetry. Mixing media archaeology with software studies, Anderson mines the history of technology for insight into both the politics of data and the pleasures of algorithms. He proposes a taxonomy of modes that describe the functional relationship between data and images in the domains of space, surveillance and data visualization. At stake in all three are tensions between the totalizing logic of data and the unruly chaos of images.
Author | : J. Macgregor Wise |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016-05-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317087828 |
Download New Visualities, New Technologies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Back in the 1980s Jean Baudrillard wrote that public space was collapsing due to a double obscenity: 'The most intimate operation of your life becomes the potential grazing ground of the media....The entire universe also unfolds unnecessarily on your home screen.' He termed this the ecstasy of communication. But today, your everyday life is not just the potential grazing ground of the media, but of anyone with a camera, and the entire universe unfolds not just at home but in the palm of your hand virtually anywhere you travel. Bringing together a transdisciplinary team of leading scholars and artists from North America, Europe and Asia, this volume documents and theorizes this new visibility. It focuses on the proliferation of a range of new visual technologies, examining questions of subjectivity, agency, and surveillance as well as mapping and theorizing new practices of visuality within this new visual assemblage. New Visualities, New Technologies addresses the pressing need for the conceptual understanding of new forms of seeing, looking, presenting, and hiding.
Author | : Jill W. Rettberg |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2014-10-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137476664 |
Download Seeing Ourselves Through Technology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.
Author | : Michelle Cotton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art and science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : ¿onstantin Sviridov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2017-01-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783330024663 |
Download High Resolution Technologies for Optical Systems of Atmospheric Seeing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Kevin Kee |
Publisher | : U OF M DIGT CULT BOOKS |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0472131117 |
Download Seeing the Past with Computers Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Recent developments in computer technology are providing historians with new ways to see—and seek to hear, touch, or smell—traces of the past. Place-based augmented reality applications are an increasingly common feature at heritage sites and museums, allowing historians to create immersive, multifaceted learning experiences. Now that computer vision can be directed at the past, research involving thousands of images can recreate lost or destroyed objects or environments, and discern patterns in vast datasets that could not be perceived by the naked eye. Seeing the Past with Computers is a collection of twelve thought-pieces on the current and potential uses of augmented reality and computer vision in historical research, teaching, and presentation. The experts gathered here reflect upon their experiences working with new technologies, share their ideas for best practices, and assess the implications of—and imagine future possibilities for—new methods of historical study. Among the experimental topics they explore are the use of augmented reality that empowers students to challenge the presentation of historical material in their textbooks; the application of seeing computers to unlock unusual cultural knowledge, such as the secrets of vaudevillian stage magic; hacking facial recognition technology to reveal victims of racism in a century-old Australian archive; and rebuilding the soundscape of an Iron Age village with aural augmented reality. This volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of history and the digital humanities more broadly. It will inspire them to apply innovative methods to open new paths for conducting and sharing their own research.
Author | : Siegfried Zielinski |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2008-02-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 026274032X |
Download Deep Time of the Media Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development—not by simply looking at new media's historic forerunners, but by connecting models, machines, technologies, and accidents that have until now remained separated. Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development—dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery; in Deep Time of the Media, he illuminates turning points of media history—fractures in the predictable—that help us see the new in the old. Drawing on original source materials, Zielinski explores the technology of devices for hearing and seeing through two thousand years of cultural and technological history. He discovers the contributions of "dreamers and modelers" of media worlds, from the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles and natural philosophers of the Renaissance and Baroque periods to Russian avant-gardists of the early twentieth century. "Media are spaces of action for constructed attempts to connect what is separated," Zielinski writes. He describes models and machines that make this connection: including a theater of mirrors in sixteenth-century Naples, an automaton for musical composition created by the seventeenth-century Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, and the eighteenth-century electrical tele-writing machine of Joseph Mazzolari, among others. Uncovering these moments in the media-archaeological record, Zielinski says, brings us into a new relationship with present-day moments; these discoveries in the "deep time" media history shed light on today's media landscape and may help us map our expedition to the media future.
Author | : Harry Freemantle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781921787164 |
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In Seeing the Social Harry Freemantle looks closely at the early moments of visibility technologies like perspective, lenses (especially microscopes), the camera obscura, The Encyclopedie, the balloon, the lithograph, the diorama and photography, including the accompanying metaphors, in order to draw out how the visual aspects of seeing inform the articulable at particular moments in history. How these visibilities shift and change over time can then be charted against larger social movements. Such visibility technologies formed part of the epistemological conditions of the observer, underlay the discourse and contributed to how early writers on the social saw the emerging social world. Seeing the Social is historically rigorous and where possible relies on primary texts. What is different about what it does with these moments is the attempt to tie these technologies to seeing the social and allowing the narrative, sometimes in dialogue form, to convey the story. The author moves away from the idea that grand philosophical or theoretical knowledge accounts tell the complete story, preferring rather to allow some minor actors to shed light on the subject. The book also attempts to steer away from being theory or theorist driven. Rather it allows these early moments of surprise and wonderment to be heard. This approach hopefully opens up visual spaces for the reader and encourages further research and reading.
Author | : Brian Winston |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134766335 |
Download Media,Technology and Society Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.