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This book introduces the basics in game usability and overall game UX mindset and techniques, as well as looking at current industry best practices and trends. Fully updated for its second edition, it includes practical advice on how to include usability...

Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and impunity. Or does it? Sound Play explores the aesthetic,...

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the...

Processing is a free, beginner-friendly programming language designed to help non-programmers create interactive art with code. The SparkFun Guide to Processing, the first in the SparkFun Electronics series, will show you how to craft digital artwork and...

In Paik's Virtual Archive, Hanna B. Holling contemplates the identity of multimedia artworks by reconsidering the role of conservation in our understanding of what the artwork is and how it functions within and beyond a specific historical moment. In...

We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current cultural moment that allows us to recognize what has...

An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling. The rise of streaming has dramatically transformed how audiences consume media. Over the last decade, subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services,...

Photography has visualized international relations and conflicts from the midnineteenth century onwards and continues to be an important medium in framing the worlds of distant, suffering others. Although photojournalism has been challenged in recent...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578732633Author Anthony TimiraosFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Anthony Timiraos PhotographyPublisher Anthony Timiraos PhotographyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940853185Author Michael SaluFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Calamari PressPublisher Calamari PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783957961839Author Martin ZeilingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Meson Press EgPublisher Meson Press EgWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm *...

ALTERNATIVE REALITIES WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age examines the relationship between gaming and timebased media art. It is the first transgenerational show of this scope to survey how...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538237Author Simon PennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries LeonardoDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term 'telematic art' to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In "Telematic Embrace" Edward A. Shanken...

Drawing upon theories from visual studies, critical visual culture studies, and cognitive psychology, and with a special focus on gender and ethnicity, this book gives students a theoretical foundation for future work as visual communicators.The book...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781980746164Author Mark BusslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries How to Draw by Mark...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789821529Author Andy GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Andrews UK LimitedPublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 279mm *...

This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp method--Frank Farris offers a completely new waveform approach...

AI is an integral part of every video game. This book helps professionals keep up with the constantly evolving technological advances in the fast growing game industry and equips students with up-to-date information they need to jumpstart their careers...

Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model,...

With 18 years under his belt in the game industry, a key contributor to the MotorStorm series, and the creator of the 3ds Max in Minutes video series (at FocalPress.com), Andrew Gahan delivers the expert techniques in 3ds Max Modeling for Games, 2nd...

The Muse of Coding gives students and experienced programmers a way to see coding as an art and themselves as artists whose personal views, experiences and ways of thinking can make their programs better for themselves and their users.This book shows in...

In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of computational imaging back to spatial strategies of early...

Hone your skills every step of the way with short tutorials and editable rigs that accompany each chapter. (17+ rigs!!).Read "Tina's 10 Rules of Rigging" and build the foundational knowledge needed to successfully rig your characters.Visit the companion...

In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of computational imaging back to spatial strategies of early...

We are currently riders of the information storm. AI fascinates us, images mesmerize us, data defines us, algorithms remember us, news bombards us, devices connect us, isolation saddens us. Deeply embedded in digital technology, we are the very first...

In an age of fast-changing technologies, offering numerous ways of generating images, Elias Wessel challenges the conventional definition of a painting: he creates his "paintings" without resorting to traditional painting techniques and eschews classical...

An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics First introduced by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, the term operational images defines the expanding field of machine vision. In this study, media theorist Jussi...

Drawing on the advice of experts in the field, The Web Writer's Guide serves as the ideal sourcebook for tips and ideas for freelance and staff writers of online content. This book provides writers of all levels with the information they need in an...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639094794Author Atta RandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

"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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247823Author Jerome NeutresFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira

Bruce Nauman has been a force in the art world since the early 1960s with his challenging audio and video installations, photographic art, neon art, and sculptures. However, until now there has been surprisingly little sustained critical analysis of his...

This book aims to provide insights into how 'second lives' in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online...

As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together the worlds of art and media culture to rethink their...

There's simply no better resource for anyone learning about and/or teaching CAD software than the Beginning AutoCAD Exercise Workbook. Veteran AutoCAD experts and former instructors Shrock and Heather have packed the 2021 version with a vastly improved...

D-Passage is a unique book by the world-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha. Taking as grounding forces her feature film Night Passage and installation L'Autre marche (The Other Walk), both co-created with Jean-Paul...

In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692903896Author Mark Rozen PettinelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint KindnesssaoxPublisher KindnesssaoxWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692845912Author Mark Rozen PettinelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint KindnesssaoxPublisher KindnesssaoxWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...