Sensing and Making Sense: Photosensitivity and Light-to-sound Translations in Media Art (Media Studies)

by: Graziele Lautenschlaeger (Author)

Publisher: Transcript Verlag

Publication Date: 15 Dec. 2020

Language: English

Print Length: 264 pages

ISBN-10: 3837653315

ISBN-13: 9783837653311

Book Description

Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new materialism, media archaeology, cultural techniques and second-order cybeetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alteative perspective, elucidating photosensitivity as a metonymy to provide guidelines to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians – especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.
Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new materialism, media archaeology, cultural techniques and second-order cybeetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alteative perspective, elucidating photosensitivity as a metonymy to provide guidelines to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians – especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.