Light Image Imagination: the spectrum beyond reality and illusion: 4 (Framing Film) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089643842 ISBN 13: 9789089643841

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Light Image Imagination is an anthology of text- and image-essays by international scholars and artists who lead critical discourses in audio-visual media history, practice and theory. The main focus of the contributions lies in discourses and topics around 19th and 20th century innovations in arts, media and technology, and their media-archaeological and philosophical foundations. It juxtaposes text and image-essays to stimulate dialogue and associative interconnections in order to discuss the creation, perception and projection of images (both mental and material) and their specific relationship with light and imagination. A key feature of both the individual contributions and the book as a whole is that disciplinary boundaries are challenged in order to amplify and enrich the thinking about mediated images. The anthology is accessible to a broad readership and will appeal especially to a constituency that views the boundaries between science, art and technology as a permeable and exciting territory to explore. The contributing authors and artists work at the interdisciplinary intersections of the Arts, Sciences and Humanities. Their expertise includes film and media theory, media archaeology, cinema history and theory, philosophy, history of science and technology, astronomy, computer music, literature studies, neuroscience, psychology, art history, art practice (painting, photography, film, video, digital arts; music composition).

About this title

About the Author

Martha Blassnigg is Reader in the Anthropology of Media at Plymouth University.

From the Back Cover

Rijk geïllustreerde bloemlezing over de audiovisuele mediapraktijk, -theorie en -geschiedenis

'Light Image Imagination' bestaat uit essays over de audiovisuele mediapraktijk, -theorie en -geschiedenis. De auteurs richten zich op de groep lezers die de grenzen tussen wetenschap, kunst en technologie niet als absoluut beschouwt.

De nadruk ligt op de discours van de negentiende en twintigste eeuw. Hierbij komen innovaties in kunst, media en technologie en hun media-archeologische en filosofische achtergronden aan bod. De grenzen tussen de letteren, wetenschappen en geesteswetenschappen worden losgelaten om het onderzoek naar beelden te versterken en te verrijken. Dit wordt ondersteund door de opmaak van het boek, waarin tekst en beeld samenwerken om de dialoog met het associatieve te verbinden.

- Martha Blassnigg is medevoorzitter van het 'Transtechnology Onderzoek' Plymouth University, en hoofdredacteur 'Leonardo Reviews'> en 'Leonardo Reviews Quarterly'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9089643842
• ISBN 13: 9789089643841
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Blassnigg Martha