How have technology and science helped artists through the years? How do today's artists use technology in their work? What role does technology hold for the future of art? From the invention of the camera obscura through to today’s digital painting and internet art, artists have always used contemporary technology to aid in the creation and display of their work. This book looks at how the creation of paintings, sculpture and engraving have changed over time and how newer mediums from photography to film and even computer games, have changed our perception of how technology can help us express ourselves.

Product Description: An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are our most important explorations of this condition...read more

Product Description: This ninth volume of the Artefacts series explores how artists have responded to developments in science and technology, past and present. Rather than limiting the discussion to art alone, editors Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret Weitekamp also asked contributors to consider aesthetics: the scholarly consideration of sensory responses to cultural objects...read more

Product Description: Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.

Product Description: A critical exploration of the pedagogical and practical issues that are raised when Arts academics engage in primary and secondary schools outreach.>

Product Description: Artist and architect Daan Roosegaarde designs extraordinary interactive environments that respond to sound and movement, in a situation of high-tech tactility that Roosegaarde describes as "techno poetry." This publication presents a complete overview of Roosegaarde's work, which has been shown at the Tate Modern in London and the National Museum in Tokyo...read more

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics.Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. Edited by two outstanding scholars in the field, W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen, the volume features works by a team of distinguished contributors. These essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.A compelling reference work for the twenty-first century and the media that form our experience within it, Critical Terms for Media Studies will engage and deepen any reader’s knowledge of one of our most important new fields.

Product Description: Using both historical and contemporary examples, this publication traces the complex relationships among art, technology and science, focusing on technological and artistic media from the nineteenth century to the present day.

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Product Description: book is in very good condition with slight shelf wear. Dust jacket has slight smudges and one small tear.