Sensing and Making Sense: Photosensitivity and Light-to-sound Translations in Media Art
Graziele Lautenschlaeger, "Sensing and Making Sense: Photosensitivity and Light-to-sound Translations in Media Art "
English | ISBN: 3837653315 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 14 MB
English | ISBN: 3837653315 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 14 MB
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 cybernetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alternative 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.