Full Description
How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in the forms of video games, scientific data, virtual environments and architectural renderings. Fearful and anti-visualist responses to this phenomenon abound. Spread by digital technologies, images are thought to threaten the word and privilege surface value over content. Yet as they multiply, images face unprecedented competition for attention. This book explores the opportunities that can arise from the ubiquity of visual stimuli. It reveals that 'technovisuality' - the fusion of digital technology with the visual - can work 'wonders'; not so much dazzling audiences with special effects as reviving our enchantment with popular culture. Introducing a new term for an entirely new field of academic study, this book reveals the centrality of 'technovisuality' in 21st century life.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction - Helen Grace
Technovisuality: Cultural Re-enchantment and the Experience of Technology
Chapter One - Wong Kin-Yuen
The 'Thousand-Mile Eye' and the Image-less Elephant: Imag(in)ing the Universe in Eco-poetics and Philosophy
Chapter Two - D.N. Rodowick
The World, Time
Chapter Three - Veronica Hollinger
Technologies of Enchantment: Figures of Wonder in Cyberfiction
Chapter Four - Sean Cubitt
The Birth of Wonder in the Database Economy
Chapter Five - Eivind Røssaak
The Performative Archive: New Conceptions of the Archive in Contemporary Theory, Art and New Media Practices
Chapter Six - Amy Chan Kit-sze
Visualising the Universe: Mandala and Buddhist Cosmology as Technovisual Embodiment
Chapter Seven - Nevena Ivanova
Meditation-Image as Transfiguration of Experience: An Analysis of Bill Viola's Video Art
Chapter Eight - Chris Berry and Janet Harbord
Tracking the Screen in Public Spaces: Everyday Dis/Enchantment
Chapter Nine - Loi Ho Man
Screens and Imagination: Technovisuality and Consumption in Hong Kong Urbanscapes
Chapter Ten - Tsung-yi Michelle Huang and Chi-she Li
Multiple Modernities and the Imaging of Uselessness in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Bibliography
Index
