Softimage

Remi Marie, Ingrid Hoelzl

Description

With today’s digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. It no longer functions as a political and iconic representation, but plays a vital role in synchronic data-to-data relationships. It is not only part of a program, but it contains its own operating code: the image is a program in itself. Softimage aims to account for that new reality, taking readers on a journey that gradually undoes our unthinking reliance on the apparent solidity of the photographic image and building in its place an original and timely theorization of the digital image in all its complexity, one that promises to spark debate within the evolving fields of image studies and software studies.

Introduction  

Chapter 1: Moving Stills (The Ken Burns Effect) 

Chapter 2: Expanded Photography (The Desire for Endlessness) 

Chapter 3: The Photographic Now (From Sign to Signal) 

Chapter 4: In the Matrix (From Geometry to Algorithm) 

Chapter 5: The Operative Image (Google Street View: The World as Database) 

Chapter 6: In the Urban Data-Space (The Image as Moment of Network Access) 

Conclusion: Softimage 

Sujets

• Photographie
• Photographie
• Google
• Ken Burns
• Cultural Studies
• General
• Photography
• General officer
• Media Studies

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783205042
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 17 Mo

Extrait

debate within the evolving Ields of image

brings the image into new “Ields of function”

termed “event structure”. This universe of

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HOELZL | MARIE

INGRID HOELZL

SOFTIMAGE

RÉMI MARIE

TOWARDS A NEW THEORY OF THE DIGITAL IMAGE

Softimage

Softimage Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image

Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie

intellectBristol, UK / Chicago, USA

First published in the UK in 2015 by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK

First published in the USA in 2015 by Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Copyright © 2015 Intellect Ltd

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Copyeditor: MPS Technologies Cover idea and design: Ingrid Hoelzl & Rémi Marie Cover image: Clement Valla (2010). From the Postcards from Google  Earth series. Website and Postcards. Courtesy Clement Valla.http://  www.postcardsfromgoogleearth.com Production manager: Claire Organ Typesetting: Contentra Technologies

Print ISBN: 9781783205035 ePDF: 9781783205042 ePUB: 9781783205059

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Contents

List o Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Moving Stills (The Ken Burns Efect) Chapter 2: Expanded Photography (The Desire or Endlessness) Chapter 3: The Photographic Now (From Sign to Signal)

Chapter 4: In the Matrix (From Geometry to Algorithm) Chapter 5: The Operative Image (Google Street View: The World as Database) Chapter 6: In the Urban Data-Space (The Image as Moment o Network Access) Conclusion:Sotimage Bibliography

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List of Illustrations

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