Sounding New Media (eBook)

Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture

Frances Dyson (Autor)

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2009
262 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-94484-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Sounding New Media examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of new media theory and practice, including new technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. Frances Dyson takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics, imaging, and digital and computer processing-and analyzing the work of such artists as John Cage, Edgard Varese, Antonin Artaud, and Char Davies. She utilizes sound's intangibility to study ideas about embodiment (or its lack) in art and technology as well as fears about technology and the so-called "e;post-human."e; Dyson argues that the concept of "e;immersion"e; has become a path leading away from aesthetic questions about meaning and toward questions about embodiment and the physical. The result is an insightful journey through the new technologies derived from electronics, imaging, and digital and computer processing, toward the creation of an aesthetic and philosophical framework for considering the least material element of an artwork, sound.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Ethereal Transmissions
The "Tele" of Ph_n_

2. Celestial Telegraphies

3. Aural Objects, Recording Devices, and the Proximate Apparatus

4. Death, Silence, and the Tape Recorder

5. Immersion

6. Embodying Technology
From Sound Effect to Body Effect

7. Atmospheres

Conclusion: Music and Noise
Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: aesthetic questions • Antonin Artaud • ART • Art and Technology • Atmosphere • Aural Objects • celestial telegraphies • char davies • Computer processing • digital processing • Edgard Varese • Electronics • Embodiment • ethereal transmissions • Imaging • Immersion • John Cage • Media Studies • New Media • new media practice • New Media Theory • New Technologies • performance art events • post human • recording devices • Sound • sound and audio • sound effect • tape recorder • techno cultural studies • technological interactions
• ISBN-10: 0-520-94484-4 / 0520944844
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94484-8 / 9780520944848