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Screen-based media, such as touch-screens, navigation systems and virtual reality applications merge images and operations. They turn viewing first and foremost into using and reflect the turn towards an active role of the image in guiding a user's action and perception. From professional environments to everyday life multiple configurations of screens organise working routines, structure interaction, and situate users in space both within and beyond the boundaries of the screen. This volume examines the linking of screen, space, and operation in fields such as remote navigation, architecture, medicine, interface design, and film production asking how the interaction with and through screens structures their users' action and perception.

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Since the very first days of cinema, audiences have marveled at the special effects imagery presented on movie screens. While long relegated to the margins of film studies, special effects have recently become the object of a burgeoning field of scholarship. With the emergence of a digital cinema, and the development of computerized visual effects, film theorists and historians have been reconsidering the traditional accounts of cinematic representation, recognising the important role of special effects. Understood as a constituent part of the cinema, special effects are a major technical but also aesthetic component of filmmaking and an important part of the experience for the audience. In this volume, new directions are charted for the exploration of this indispensable aspect of the cinematic experience. Each of the essays in this collection offers new insight into the theoretical and historical study of special effects. The contributors address the many aspects of special effects, from a variety of perspectives, considering them as a conceptual problem, recounting the history of specific special effects techniques, and analysing notable effects films.

Cinematography --- ART / Digital. --- Photography --- Chronophotography --- Special effects --- History. --- Animated pictures --- Motion pictures --- Special effects, film theory, film history, film-philosophy.

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This volume is a response to the growing need for new methodological approaches to the rapidly changing landscape of new forms of performative practices. The authors address a host of contemporary phenomena situated at the crossroads between science and fiction which employ various media and merge live participation with mediated hybrid experiences at both affective and cognitive level. All essays collected here move across disciplinary divisions in order to provide an account of these new tendencies, thus providing food for thought for a wide readership ranging from performative studies to the social sciences, philosophy and cultural studies.

Performance; Media; Science; Culture; Art; Theatre; Theatre Studies; Media Art; Digital Media; Technology --- Art. --- Culture. --- Digital Media. --- Media Art. --- Media. --- Science. --- Technology. --- Theatre Studies. --- Theatre.

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In The Future Is Present, Philip Glahn and Cary Levine tell the fascinating history of the visionary art group Mobile Image founded by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz in 1977 which appropriated emerging technologies, from satellites to electronic message platforms. Based in Los Angeles, this under-studied collective worked amid urban crisis, a techno-boom, consolidating media power, and ascendant neoliberal politics. Mobile Image challenged fundamental conventions of the public sphere, democracy, communication, and political participation, as well as notions of power, representation, and identity.

Technology and the arts --- Art and society --- ART / History / Contemporary (1945-) --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects --- ART / Digital --- History --- Mobile Image (Artists' collective) --- History. --- Politique et pouvoirs publics --- Image --- Los Angeles

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In Digital Image Systems, Claus Gunti examines the antagonizing reactions to digital technologies in photography. While Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse have gradually adopted digital imaging tools in the early 1990s, other photographers from the Düsseldorf School have remained faithful to film-based technologies. By evaluating the aesthetic and discursive preconditions of this situation and by extensively analyzing the digital work of these three photographers, this book shows that the digital turn in photography was anticipated by the conceptualization of images within systems, and thus offers new perspectives for understanding the »digital revolution«.

Arts in general. --- ART / History / Contemporary (1945-). --- Andreas Gursky. --- Art History of the 21st Century. --- Art. --- Computer. --- Culture. --- Digital. --- Düsseldorf School. --- European Art. --- Fine Arts. --- Germany. --- Jörg Sasse. --- Thomas Ruff. --- Visual Studies. --- Photography; Art; Digital; Culture; Computer; Germany; Düsseldorf School; Thomas Ruff; Andreas Gursky; Jörg Sasse; Art History of the 21st Century; European Art; Visual Studies; Fine Arts