Full Description
Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of everyday life, from workplaces to household devices — computer and digital television screens, appliances such as refrigerators and home assistants, and applications for social media and gaming. Each technologically enabled opportunity brings an increasingly sophisticated language with the act of pursuing the intrasensorial ways of perceiving the world around us — through touch, movement, sound and vision — that is the heart of screen media use and audience engagement with digital artifacts. Drawing on digital media's currently evolving transformation and transforming capacity this book builds a story of the multiple processes in robotics and AI, virtual reality, creative image and sound production, the representation of data and creative practice. Issues around commodification, identity, identification, and political economy are critically examined for the emerging and affecting encounters and perceptions that are brought to bear.
Contents
Acknowledgements and Dedications
List of Contributors
Introduction
Contents page
SECTION ONE: SOCIO-AESTHETICS OF SOUND AND SIGHT
Chapter One: Virtual Reality, the Chiasm, and the Doubled Body
Angela Ndalianis
Chapter Two: Sensing Sims: Atmospheres, Aesthetics and the Cyborg Player
Merlin Seller
Chapter Three: Embodied Audiovisual Experience: The Role of Sound in Contemporary Screen and Digital Media
Darrin Verhagan and Ben Byrne
Chapter Four: Volumetric Black: Post-Cinematic Blackness
Triton Mobley
SECTION TWO: MEANING-MAKING IN THE DATA-DRIVEN ERA OF QUANTIFIED MEDIA
Chapter Five: Quantified Me, Curatorial Lives and the Pixelated Spectre of Self
Toija Cinque
Chapter Six: Virtual Reality and Kinaesthetic Connection: Qualities of 'Being There'.
Kim Vincs
Chapter Seven: Feminist Memes: Digital Communities, Identity Performance, and Resistance from the Shadows
Shana MacDonald and Brianna I. Wiens
Chapter Eight: The Infinite Portrait: A Case of Post-Human Authorship
Andrew McIntyre
SECTION THREE: TOUCH, BODY, METAL, SCREEN
Chapter Nine: First Encounters with Robots Through Embodied Observation, Imagined Narrative, and Choreography
Amy LaViers
Chapter Ten: Physical Digitality: Making reality visible through multimodal digital affordances for Human Perception
Luke Heemsbergen, Greg Bowtell and Jordan Beth Vincent
Chapter Eleven: A True Feel: Re-Embodying the Touch Sense in the Digital Fashion Experience
Michela Ornati
Chapter Twelve: What Robots Learn from Performative Relationships and Interactive Performance
Steph Hutchison and John McCormick
SECTION FOUR: DIGITAL FUTURES
Chapter Thirteen: Smart Home: Smart Devices and the Everyday Experiences of the Home
Xi Cui
Chapter Fourteen: Affect and the Digitalization of War
John MacWillie
Chapter Fifteen: Automation in a Myth
Luke Munn
Chapter Sixteen: A Triadic Typology of Material Mediation: Ontology, Intentionality and Vitalism
Renata Morais
