The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations.
Shanbaum, Phaedra.
The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (205 pages) - Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies . - Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Art at the Interface -- What Is a Digital Interface? -- A Brief History of Digital Art -- Chapter Summaries -- 1 The Aesthetic Interface -- Toward a Digital Aesthetic of the Interface -- The Aesthetic Interface and the Mediated Experience of Time -- Aesthetic Distance, Representationalism, and Cartesian Habits of the Mind -- The Difficulty with Interactivity -- The Digital Interface Is Obsolete -- Place and the Aesthetic Interface -- 2 The Embodied Interface -- The Viewer/Participant or the Interface? -- The Human "Me" and the Technologized "You" -- The "Real" and the Representational -- The Re-use of Cultural Forms: Practice, Potentiality, and Instructional Processes -- 3 The Agential Interface -- The Agency of Human and Non-human Entities, or Why the Relationship between the Body and Technology Matters -- The Agential Interface in 768 Pieces -- Enacting the Agential Cut -- Collective Spaces of Questioning, Reflection, and Reconsideration -- 4 Instruction and the Interface -- The Ideological Effects of Instruction -- Instruction, Learning Processes, and the Cybernetic Feedback Loop of Interaction -- Pre-programmed Actions and Unexpected Experiences: Instruction as a Rhetorical Device -- Peripheral Actions and Unintended Consequences: Instruction and the Filtering Process -- Shared Ontological Systems and the Emergence of Different Dialogues -- 5 The Ubiquitous Interface: Part I -- What is Ubiquitous Computing? -- A "Shift" in Computing -- A Restructuring of Interfaces -- Re-opening the Question of the Interface: Linear Timelines and Finality -- In Conclusion -- 6 The Ubiquitous Interface: Part II -- The Instrumentalization and Commodification of the Ubiquitous Interface -- "You Are the Controller". The Alternative Ubiquitous Interface -- "A Radically New Tool" -- In Conclusion -- 7 The Implanted Interface -- Implanting the Interface -- The Limited and Limitless Possibilities of the Implant -- Support: Agency, Identity, and the Implant -- Mediate: The Social "Time Capsule" -- Enhance: Performing the Visible Invisible -- Remediate: Disembodiment, Transcendence, and the Implant -- Conclusion/Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations.
9780429886003
Installations (Art).
Electronic books.
NX456.5.N49 .S536 2020
709.04074
The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (205 pages) - Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies . - Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Art at the Interface -- What Is a Digital Interface? -- A Brief History of Digital Art -- Chapter Summaries -- 1 The Aesthetic Interface -- Toward a Digital Aesthetic of the Interface -- The Aesthetic Interface and the Mediated Experience of Time -- Aesthetic Distance, Representationalism, and Cartesian Habits of the Mind -- The Difficulty with Interactivity -- The Digital Interface Is Obsolete -- Place and the Aesthetic Interface -- 2 The Embodied Interface -- The Viewer/Participant or the Interface? -- The Human "Me" and the Technologized "You" -- The "Real" and the Representational -- The Re-use of Cultural Forms: Practice, Potentiality, and Instructional Processes -- 3 The Agential Interface -- The Agency of Human and Non-human Entities, or Why the Relationship between the Body and Technology Matters -- The Agential Interface in 768 Pieces -- Enacting the Agential Cut -- Collective Spaces of Questioning, Reflection, and Reconsideration -- 4 Instruction and the Interface -- The Ideological Effects of Instruction -- Instruction, Learning Processes, and the Cybernetic Feedback Loop of Interaction -- Pre-programmed Actions and Unexpected Experiences: Instruction as a Rhetorical Device -- Peripheral Actions and Unintended Consequences: Instruction and the Filtering Process -- Shared Ontological Systems and the Emergence of Different Dialogues -- 5 The Ubiquitous Interface: Part I -- What is Ubiquitous Computing? -- A "Shift" in Computing -- A Restructuring of Interfaces -- Re-opening the Question of the Interface: Linear Timelines and Finality -- In Conclusion -- 6 The Ubiquitous Interface: Part II -- The Instrumentalization and Commodification of the Ubiquitous Interface -- "You Are the Controller". The Alternative Ubiquitous Interface -- "A Radically New Tool" -- In Conclusion -- 7 The Implanted Interface -- Implanting the Interface -- The Limited and Limitless Possibilities of the Implant -- Support: Agency, Identity, and the Implant -- Mediate: The Social "Time Capsule" -- Enhance: Performing the Visible Invisible -- Remediate: Disembodiment, Transcendence, and the Implant -- Conclusion/Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations.
9780429886003
Installations (Art).
Electronic books.
NX456.5.N49 .S536 2020
709.04074