Sean Cubitt: Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (1993)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, avant-garde, cinema, film, postmodernism, television, third cinema, video, video art
“Videography is an attempt to discover the conditions under which it is possible to speak, write and teach about the electronic media. It provides a materialist account of video and computer media as they are practised and used today. A theoretical section tests the claims of various theses in art history, media and cultural theory to account for the variety of video practice in the contemporary scene. The remainder of the book is devoted to close analysis of work, from amateur video to computer graphics.”
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, 1993
ISBN 0312102968, 9780312102968
239 pages
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Comment (0)George Stiny, James Gips: Algorithmic Aesthetics: Computer Models for Criticism and Design in the Arts (1978)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, computer art, design, graphics, music, software
“Can a computer appreciate a work of art? Can a computer create a new work of art? What does it mean for an object to be a work of art? How are objects understood as works of art? Dozens of ways of understanding art have been proposed. Is there one true way to understand works of art? If not, what do the different ways of understanding art have in common? How might they be implemented in a computer? Does this “computer” or “algorithmic” approach have any contributions to make to the field of art and aesthetics?
The book was written between 1974 and 1976 in Los Angeles. We had no access to a computer so we employed a typist to translate our hand written pages into typed manuscript.”
Publisher University of California Press, 1978
ISBN 0520034678
220 pages
Chris Jenks (ed.): Visual Culture (1995)
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, aesthetics, art, phenomenology, photography, pop art, popular culture, postmodern, technoscience, television
In Visual Culture the ‘visual’ character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth. A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern, ‘vision’ and the ‘visual’ are emergent themes across sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. Visual Culture will prove an indispensable guide to the field.
Publisher Routledge, 1995
ISBN 0415106230, 9780415106238
Length 269 pages
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