Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin: Remediation: Understanding New Media (1999)

Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning “remediation,” and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.

Publisher: MIT Press, 1999
ISBN: 0262024527, 9780262024525
295 pages

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Image, Time and Motion: New Media Critique from Turkey (2011)

This reader is a collection of essays written by Turkish graduate students between 2003 and 2010 for Andreas Treske’s seminar ‘Image, Time and Motion’ at Bilkent University in Ankara, revised and actualized in 2010. Coming from a wide range of disciplines they had studied before, very rarely media or cultural studies, these students brought in their various viewpoints and methods, and tried to integrate their observations and understandings in a seminar related to cinema and new media to discuss and sometimes just to describe the influences of digital media technologies for themselves and their colleagues. Starting from the premise that digital technology redefines our moving image culture, the authors reflect in their essays various kind of approaches and methods, experiences and practices, descriptive, critical and interdisciplinary.

Contributors: Pelin Aytemiz, Bestem Büyüm, I. Alev Degim, Bilge Demirtas, Fulya Ertem, Deniz Hasirci, Cagri Baris Kasap, Zeynep Kocer, Rifat Süha Kocoglu, Leyla Önal, Ufuk Önen, Didem Özkul, Segah Sak, Ayda Sevin, Umut Sumnu, Andreas Treske and Funda Senova Tunali.

Edited by: Andreas Treske, Ufuk Onen, Bestem Büyüm and I. Alev Degim
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2011
Theory on Demand series, No 7
ISBN: 978-90-816021-5-0
146 pages

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Limina No. 1: Unidentified Narrative Objects – New Video Production and New Media Art (2010) [Italian/English]

This journal is the first of a series written by members of the Ph.D Planetary Collegium M-Node, and published by NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano. The series will be a collection of reflections and observations by the Ph.D researchers who are part of the programme, and by interpreters of the contemporary digital culture.

The Ph.D Planetary Collegium is an international network of research based on the rapport between art, design, philosophy, technology and science, which welcomes researchers from all over the world. It has been founded by Roy Ascott, a pioneer in telematic and cybernetics art, whose work has developed in the fields of arts, technologies and consciousness.

Questo volume inaugura una serie di testi di ricerca realizzati a cura del Programma dottorale Phd Planetary Collegium – M-Node ed editi dalla Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano. Una raccolta di riflessioni e di osservazioni realizzate dai ricercatori che partecipano al programma e da interpreti della cultura digitale contemporanea.

Editor: Francesco Monico
Scientific advisory committee: Francesco Monico, Derrick De Kerchkove , Antonio Caronia, Pier Luigi Capucci
Publisher M-Node, NABA Libri, Milan, May 2010
ISBN 978-88-95286-07-5
212 pages

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