Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new materialism, media archaeology, cultural techniques and second-order cybernetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alternative perspective, elucidating photosensitivity as a metonymy to provide guidelines to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians - especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.
Book InformationISBN 9783837653311
Author Graziele LautenschlaegerFormat Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Transcript VerlagPublisher Transcript Verlag
Series Media StudiesWeight(grams) 666g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 15mm