TY - BOOK ID - 1472116 TI - Devices of wonder : from the world in an box to images on a screen AU - Stafford, Barbara AU - Terpak, Frances AU - Poggi, Isotta PY - 2001 SN - 0892365900 9780892365906 PB - Getty Publications DB - UniCat KW - History KW - perception KW - geschiedenis KW - waarneming KW - history [discipline] KW - optische instrumenten KW - photography [process] KW - fotografie KW - wetenschappelijke instrumenten KW - Photography KW - Art KW - Kunst en technologie ; visuele waarneming ; optische instrumenten KW - 7.017 KW - (069) KW - Kunst ; optische effecten, perspectief, illusie KW - (Musea. Collecties) KW - visual perception KW - Art and technology KW - Optical instruments KW - Visual perception KW - Optics KW - Physical instruments KW - Instruments KW - Technology and art KW - Technology KW - Exhibitions KW - CDL KW - 7.03 KW - Computergrafiek KW - Artificiële intelligentie KW - Machinaal leren UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1472116 AB - An inquiry into emergent media's rich lineage, Devices of Wonder explores the artful machines humans have used to augment visual perception.The encyclopedic cabinet of curiosities serves as a model for this study of the archaic instruments lurking in state-of-the art technology. Featured in Devices of Wonder are android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective theaters, vues d'optique, microscopes, magnetic games, magic lanterns,camera obscuras, boxes by Joseph Cornell, Lucas Samaras's Mirrored Room, Suzanne Anker's Zoosemiotics, Mark Tilden's UniBug 3.1, panoramic works by Jeff Wall and Giovanni Lusieri, paintings by Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Joseph Wright of Derby, projections by Diana Thater and James Turrell, and apop-up book by Kara Walker.Barbara Stafford's introduction weaves these fascinating artifacts into a provocative narrative analyzing the complex links between old and new media. Her wide-ranging investigation is complemented by thirty-one short essays in which Frances Terpak tracks the often surprising connections amongindividual items. Like the cabinet of curiosities, Devices of Wonder functions as an analogical instrument, reframing the beautiful "eye machines" that continue to mediate our encounters with the world. ER -