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Sensing and making sense : photosensitivity and light-to-sound translations in media art
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ISBN: 3839453313 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bielefeld : Transcript,

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Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new materialism, media archaeology, cultural techniques and second-order cybernetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alternative perspective, elucidating photosensitivity as a metonymy to provide guidelines to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians - especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.


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Eco-Sonic Media
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ISBN: 0520961498 0520286146 9780520286139 0520286138 9780520286146 9780520961494 133628112X 9781336281127 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound studies and turn up the audio in discussions of greening the media. By looking at early and neglected forms of sound technology, Jacob Smith seeks to create a revisionist, ecologically aware history of sound media. Delving into the history of pre-electronic media like hand-cranked gramophones, comparatively eco-friendly media artifacts such as the shellac discs that preceded the use of petroleum-based vinyl, early forms of portable technology like divining rods, and even the use of songbirds as domestic music machines, Smith builds a scaffolding of historical case studies to demonstrate how "green media archaeology" can make sound studies vibrate at an ecological frequency while opening the ears of eco-criticism. Throughout this eye-opening and timely book he makes readers more aware of the costs and consequences of their personal media consumption by prompting comparisons with non-digital, non-electronic technologies and by offering different ways in which sound media can become eco-sonic media. In the process, he forges interdisciplinary connections, opens new avenues of research, and poses fresh theoretical questions for scholars and students of media, sound studies, and contemporary environmental history.

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Sound recordings --- Sound --- Audio equipment industry --- Sound in mass media --- Environmental aspects. --- Recording and reproducing --- Equipment and supplies --- History. --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Electronic industries --- Audio discs --- Audio recordings --- Audiorecordings --- Discs, Audio --- Discs, Sound --- Disks, Sound --- Phonodiscs --- Phonograph records --- Phonorecords --- Recordings, Audio --- Recordings, Sound --- Records, Phonograph --- Records, Sound --- Sound discs --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Sound recordings -- Environmental aspects.. --- Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Equipment and supplies -- Environmental aspects.. --- Audio equipment industry -- Environmental aspects.. --- Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Equipment and supplies -- History.. --- Sound in mass media -- History. --- audio equipment history. --- audio recording history. --- contemporary environmental history. --- contemporary mediascape. --- divining rods. --- domestic music machines. --- early sound technology. --- eco sonic media. --- ecological critique. --- gramophones. --- green media archaeology. --- green media. --- greening the media. --- history of sound media. --- media artifacts. --- media culture. --- nondigital sound technology. --- personal media. --- pre electronic media. --- sound media technologies. --- sound recording equipment. --- sound recordings. --- sound studies.


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Advertising and Design : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Cultural Field
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ISBN: 3839423481 3837623483 1306996325 9783839423486 9783837623482 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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The cultural field of advertising is a much-debated topic with perspectives focusing on a range of concepts from harassment and the anxiety of influence to notions of desire and affirmation. The aim of this publication is not only to take into account the diversity of topics related to advertising, but more importantly, to develop a dialogue between these divergent viewpoints. With contributions by Barbara Aulinger, Bernadette Collenberg-Plotnikov, Beate Flath, Werner Jauk, Bernhard Kettemann, Eva Klein, Jörg Matthes, Manfred Prisching, Johanna Rolshoven, Nicolas Ruth, Holger Schramm, Charles Spence, Margit Stadlober and Friedrich Weltzien. Reviewed in: CHOICE, 52/5 (2015), S. Skaggs www.literaturkritik.de, 05.08.2016, Walter Delabar


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Im Rauschen der Schweizer Alpen : Eine auditive Ethnographie zu Klang und Kulturpolitik des internationalen Radios
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ISBN: 3839451647 3837651649 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Einschalten, Sender suchen und die Welt im Ohr haben: Internationales Radio prägte Politik und Alltag im Kalten Krieg. Patricia Jäggi untersucht mit Fokus auf dem Schweizer internationalen Sender die Blütezeit dieses globalen Mediums. Dazu versetzt sie sich in die Rolle von Radiohörer*innen und rekonstruiert mittels eines innovativen methodischen Zugangs damaliges auditives Erleben. Neben Tonarchivalien des Schweizer Senders aus den Jahren 1950 bis 1975, in denen die Alpen genauso journalistisch wie radiophon dargestellt wurden, wird die technische Übermittlung nachgestellt und damit auch die Geräuschwelt des Äthers als Teil des auditiven Erlebenshorizonts untersucht. Das Buch liefert neue Zusammenhänge zwischen Klangwelt, Kulturdiplomatie und Kosmopolitismus. »Das Buch liefert neue Zusammenhänge zwischen Klangwelt, Kulturdiplomatie und Kosmopolitismus.« Josef Ritler, https://seniorweb.ch, 14.06.2020


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Anatomy of Sound : Norman Corwin and Media Authorship
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ISBN: 9780520285309 9780520285323 9780520960855 0520960858 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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This collection examines the work of Norman Corwin-one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time-as a critical lens to view the history of multimedia authorship and sound production. Known as the "poet laureate" of radio, Corwin is most famous for his radio dramas, which reached millions of listeners around the world and contributed to radio's success as a mass media form in the 1930s and 1940s. But Corwin was also a pioneer in other fields, including cinema, theater, TV, and journalism. In each of these areas, he had a distinctive approach to "soundwork," relying on inventive prerecorded and live-in-real-time atmospheric effects in the studio, among other aesthetic techniques. Exploring the range of Corwin's work-from his World War II-era poetry and his special projects for the United Nations to his path-breaking writing for film and television-and its influence on media today, these essays underscore the political and social impact of Corwin's oeuvre and cement his reputation as a key writer in the history of many sound media.

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