Sensing and Making Sense
Subtitle: Photosensitivity and Light-To-Sound Translations in Media Art
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9783837653311
Description: 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 a historical and analytical approach, 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 guiding criteria to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians - especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.