| Abstracting Reality: Art, Communication, and Cognition in the Digital Age Contributor(s): Wolf, Mark J. P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761816682 ISBN-13: 9780761816683 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $81.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: Abstracting Reality considers the relationship between digital technology and culture and their mutual influences on each other. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Information Technology |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 00022437 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.02" W x 8.98" (0.99 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Abstracting Reality considers the relationship between digital technology and culture and their mutual influences on each other. The book begins with an examination of how everyday life became quantized over time, setting the stage for digital technology, which developed out of communication, machine control, and calculating machines. From there the book explores how digital technology changed the nature of art, inherent culture biases in digitization, composite imagery, machine-mediated communication, the metaphor of cyberspace, virtual reality, and finally, the way in which digital technology and imaging changes the very nature of indexicality itself. |