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Beyond the image machine : a history of visual technologies /
Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies is an eloquent and stimulating argument for an alternative history of scientific and technological imaging systems. It explores the ways in which the technological medium through which a piece of visual art is rendered contributes significan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2004.
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| Colección: | Technologies (London, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Thresholds Between Media and History; Chapter 1 Pictures of the New and the Materialization of Vision from the Age of Discovery to the Era of the Posthuman; Part 2: Reinventing Media Histories; Chapter 2 The Materialization of Sentience: The Dynamo and the Virgin; Chapter 3 The Incubator: Nipce's Heliographic Imprint of 1826; Chapter 4 Reimagining the Computer's Origins: Mechanical Drawing and Charles Babbage's Calculating Engines; Chapter 5 Alternate Models of the Virtual: Optical Thresholds in Camera Lucidas and Head-mounted Displays.
- Chapter 6 Beyond the Cyborg: Antonio Panizzi's 1852 Diagram for a Circular Reading Room at the British MuseumPart 3: Future Histories; Chapter 7 Unorthodox Time Machines: Images and Instruments across Space, Time and History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z.