Enfoldment and infinity
Subtitle: an Islamic genealogy of new media art
By: Laura U. Marks.
Series: Leonardo books
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780262014212
Subjects: New media art; Islam and art; Aesthetics, Arab
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting things unfolded; title: Islamic aesthetics and new media art: points of contact; title: The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, part I; title: The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, part II; title: The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, part III; title: Baghdad, 830: birth of the algorithm; title: Baghdad, 1000: origin of the pixel; title: Cairo, 972: ancestor of the morph; title: Herat, 1487: early virtual reality; title: Karabagh, 1700: seeds of artificial life.