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1. Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database

   Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.10.2011 - 09:18

2. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis

   How do we think? N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesis-the belief that humans and technics are coevolving-and advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice versa. mines the evolution of the field from the traditional humanities and how the digital humanities are changing academic scholarship, research, teaching, and publication. She goes on to depict the neurological consequences of working in digital media, where skimming and scanning, or "hyper reading," and analysis through machine algorithms are forms of reading as valid as close reading once was.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.02.2012 - 09:33

3. The Fundamentals of Digital Art

   The book examines the way digital technology is forcing a complete rethink of creative priorities for artists in the twenty first century. Written from an artist's perspective, the author has had the cooperation of many important practitioners in digital arts in countries across the world. The book is written in an accessible style and alongside examples of work offers practical know-how that will enable to reader to begin using some of the methods described for themselves.

   The Fundamentals of Digital Art has six sections and each of these takes a specific aspect of the subject.

   Historical perspectives
   Dynamic “live” art
   The use of data sources in art
   The place of programming languages
   Network considerations
   Hybrid practice and the blurring of specialist boundaries.

   176 Pages with 150 colour illustrations

   Source: book presentation on accompanying website

   Patricia Tomaszek - 27.08.2012 - 17:06