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A New Performativity: Wearables and Body-Devices
Danielle Wilde
The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels
Sean Cubitt
Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are our most important explorations of this condition. The history of visual technologies reveals a centuries-long project aimed at controlling light. In this book, Sean Cubitt traces a genealogy of the dominant visual media of the twenty-first century—digital video, film, and photography—through a history of materials and practices that begins with the inventions of intaglio printing and oil painting. Attending to the specificities of inks and pigments, cathode ray tubes, color film, lenses, screens, and chips, Cubitt argues that we have moved from a hierarchical visual culture focused on semantic values to a more democratic but value-free numerical commodity. Cubitt begins with the invisibility of black, then builds from line to surface to volume and space. He describes Rembrandt’s attempts to achieve pure black by tricking the viewer and the rise of geometry as a governing principle in visual technology, seen in Dürer, Hogarth, and Disney, among others. He finds the origins of central features of digital imaging in nineteenth-century printmaking; examines the clash between the physics and psychology of color; explores the representation of space in shadows, layers, and projection; discusses modes of temporal order in still photography, cinema, television, and digital video; and considers the implications of a political aesthetics of visual technology.
Daniel Palmer
Antennae
Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture -- MAKING NATURE
2019 •
Giovanni Aloi, Bergit Arends, Emily E Brink, Regan Shrumm
Making Nature -- ANTENNAE ISSUE #49 is now online! Edited by Giovanni Aloi and Honor Beddard This issue of Antennae is part of a project informed by the exhibition 'Making Nature: How We See Animals' curated by Honor Beddard at Wellcome Collection (London) in 2016-17. This first installment, 'Making Nature', looks at the construction of nature as a cultural pursuit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on issues of visibility and invisibility, both cultural and ecological, to critically appraise the methodological approaches that have defined the philosophies of the discipline. Technologies of visibility like taxidermy, dioramas, macro-photography, and illustration are here juxtaposed to highlight the complicity of art and science in the production of fictional narratives about the world we live in. This outlook should however not be misinterpreted as an attempt to diminish the epistemic importance of natural history but as an invitation to reach further deep into the discipline’s productive core and to devise new natural histories for the twenty-first century. It is in this context that the next installment, also co-edited with Honor Beddard, titled 'Re-making Nature' will more closely focus on the work of contemporary artists whose practice entails revealing the constructedness of nature as a concept to map and untangle important nevralgic and yet overlooked junctions in our coevolutional histories with the rest of the natural world. With contributions by Abbas Akhavan | Bergit Arends | Marc Beattie | Giovanni Aloi Honor Beddard | Emily Eastgate Brink Aaron Delehanty | Mario A. Di Gregorio Mark Dion | Maria P. Gindhart Isabella Kirkland | Maria Lux | Lorraine Simms Regan Shrumm | Tamsen Young Doug Young Download free at Antennae.org.uk
In Darwin’s Garden: Temporality and Sense of Place, Leonardo, Live Visuals.
Chris Meigh-Andrews
Katarina Andjelkovic
Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art
The Intertwining of the Digital and the Biological in Artistic Practice
2019 •
Laura Beloff, Tanya Ravn Ag
In the last two decades, we have witnessed a gradual shift observable in the approaches of artists working with technology. This shift can be characterized as moving from the digital and virtual realm towards the physical world. More recently, this can be seen in terms of an inclusion of the biological realm into experiments and artworks that address a wide range of technological developments and their impact on society. Many of the artists working in this field – broadly termed ‘art and science’ – have a background in digital arts. This chapter traces specifically the emerging inclusion of the biological realm into the technology-based arts as a trajectory towards which the field of digital art appears to be developing. Given that readers of this chapter probably have general knowledge about digital and technology-based art as an existing field, it focuses primarily on artistic interests that involve biological organisms and living matter in combination with technology. The trajectory is introduced through the actors and milestones in the development of Nordic new media art. It continues with examples of Nordic works, artists and active organizers who are working with a combination of digital and biological matter. The chapter divides the artistic examples into works that focus on the environment and those that focus on humans as biological organisms. Underlying the chapter is my first-hand experience in the Nordic development of new media art and my recent interest in, specifically, biological matter with digital technology. This development has two historical predecessors: one is based on the traditions of art and technology; the other is based on the traditions of landscape art and earth works. The chapter addresses our evolving understanding of concepts such as real, natural and artificial, as well as biological and technological.
Becoming an Image: Amanda Ross-Ho's "The Character and Shape of Illuminated Things"
Kate Palmer Albers
Review of The practice of light: a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels, by Sean Cubitt
Jonathan Schroeder
A central obsession of The Practice of Light concerns how humans have attempted to control, handle, and order light, and how this has affected how we see – both with visual technologies and without.
Journal of Visual Culture
Review: Sean Cubitt, The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014)
2016 •
Swagato Chakravorty
Sean Cubitt, The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. 354 pp. ISBN 978 0 262 02765 6
