Here’s a preview in section headings of the book I’m currently writing. It presents a way of thinking about images, what they’ve done for people, and how all of that figures into the contemporary world of digital media. It then applies that way of thinking to three sets of images: about humans as the stars […]
Posts Tagged ‘visual culture’
Scenes in the image-world
Posted in ImageNation, tagged Anthropocene, Anthroposcene, books, image ecologies, image regimes, image-world, media ecologies, media studies, The New Lives of Images, visual culture, visual studies on June 26, 2020 | 2 Comments »
artist environmental videos
Posted in EcoCulture, tagged eco-art, ecomedia, visual culture on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gemma Lloyd on RSA’s Arts & Ecology blog shares a nice collection of ten artist videos in response to the environment. The others — mostly “classics” by Smithson, Beuys, Turrell, et al. — can be seen here.
metadata & musical geography (from album covers to cultural policy)
Posted in MediaSpace, SoundScape, tagged affect, cultural geography, cultural policy, Deleuze, geography, Iceland, imagination, music, visual culture on April 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
One of the more oblique threads I’ve been pursuing on this blog has to do with what new media are doing to aural and musical information. Music is, of course, much more than information: it is embodied affect (in a Deleuzian sense) that carries, channels, activates, mobilizes (sets into motion), transforms, and disseminates cultural meanings […]