Enfoldment and infinity : an Islamic genealogy of new media art /
Marks, Laura U.,1963-
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Getting things unfolded -- Islamic aesthetics and new media art: points of contact -- The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, part I -- The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, part II -- The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, part III -- Baghdad, 830: birth of the algorithm -- Baghdad, 1000: origin of the pixel -- Cairo, 972: ancestor of the morph -- Herat, 1487: early virtual reality -- Karabagh, 1700: seeds of artificial life.
New media art.
Islam and art.
Aesthetics, Arab.