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Photography Off the Scale (eBook, ePUB)

Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image

Redaktion: Dvorak, Tomas; Parikka, Jussi

Beschreibung

Offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on the scale and quantity of images in contemporary visual culture

• Unpacks the notion of the mass image through the lens of affective, representational, political, logistical and material economies
• Contains chapters by internationally renowned scholars as well as emerging researchers from the Czech Republic, UK and Germany
• Contributors include many of the key names who have been at the forefront of discussions about scale, digital visual culture, and photography and scale including Michelle Henning, Joanna Zylinska, Sean Cubitt, Joan Fontcuberta and Geoffrey Batchen
• For people working in, researching or studying photography, media studies, digital culture and digital visual arts

These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of various forms of scaling in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography. They propose a shift into a fundamental re-evaluation of our theoretical coordinates so as to understand the underpinning media and culture of this change.

Taken together, Photography Off the Scale calls for a reconsideration of both scholarly and artistic approaches and concepts in the face of our contemporary image excess.

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Autor

TomáS Dvorák is Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography at FAMU in Prague. He studied philosophy, art history, media studies and sociology at Charles University in Prague and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research focuses on philosophy and history of media and philosophy and history of science, and the interrelations between these fields, especially media archaeology of science and knowledge. He has authored or co-authored a number of books in Czech: Epistemology of (New) Media(NAMU 2018), Photography, Sculpture, Object(NAMU 2017), Temporality of (New) Media (NAMU 2016), Contemporary Approaches in Historical Epistemology (Filosofia 2013), Chapters from the History and Theory of Media (AVU 2010), and Waste Management: Texts, Images and Sounds of Recent History (Filosofia 2009). Jussi Parikka is Professor of Technological Culture and Aesthetics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Visiting Professor at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague. He is the author of Digital Contagions (2007, 2nd. Edition 2016), Insect Media (2010, also the winner of the SCMS Anne Friedberg book award for innovative scholarship), What is Media Archaeology (2012) and A Geology of Media (2015). He is the co-editor of books such as Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications (2010, with Erkki Huhtamo) and Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048 (2015, with Joasia Krysa) among many others. In addition, he was a co-editor of the book Across and Beyond: a transmediale Reader on Postdigital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions (2016). Parikka is the research director for the project Operative Images (2019-2023), funded by Czech Science Academy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474478830
• Artikelnr.: 72429109