Author: Arianna Dagnino
Publisher: Ipoc Press
ISBN: 8895145429
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
In the great sea of the web the prophesy "Blessed are the last for they shall be first" is coming true. Not in another life, but in this one. Not in another world but in another dimension. There, in the Beyondscreen, people are judged on their integrity, their uniqueness as human beings, and their resources of mind and spirit rather than on social class, race, sexual preference or gender. A "bible for web practitioners." A hundred or so pages written in the blunt, aphoristic and inspired stile of the Net. Provocative. Heresy, possibly. But a heresy which in four "digital precepts" restores the basic values advocated by a hero of yesterday and tomorrow named Jesus. An "open" work fed by the thoughts of many. And one which, in order to live, must be nourished by all of you, the angels of a new digital heaven. As a collective work, it is not just the thinking of one person, but of all those the author read and met (virtually) online.
Jesus Christ Cyberstar
Author: Arianna Dagnino
Publisher: Ipoc Press
ISBN: 8895145429
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
In the great sea of the web the prophesy "Blessed are the last for they shall be first" is coming true. Not in another life, but in this one. Not in another world but in another dimension. There, in the Beyondscreen, people are judged on their integrity, their uniqueness as human beings, and their resources of mind and spirit rather than on social class, race, sexual preference or gender. A "bible for web practitioners." A hundred or so pages written in the blunt, aphoristic and inspired stile of the Net. Provocative. Heresy, possibly. But a heresy which in four "digital precepts" restores the basic values advocated by a hero of yesterday and tomorrow named Jesus. An "open" work fed by the thoughts of many. And one which, in order to live, must be nourished by all of you, the angels of a new digital heaven. As a collective work, it is not just the thinking of one person, but of all those the author read and met (virtually) online.
Publisher: Ipoc Press
ISBN: 8895145429
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
In the great sea of the web the prophesy "Blessed are the last for they shall be first" is coming true. Not in another life, but in this one. Not in another world but in another dimension. There, in the Beyondscreen, people are judged on their integrity, their uniqueness as human beings, and their resources of mind and spirit rather than on social class, race, sexual preference or gender. A "bible for web practitioners." A hundred or so pages written in the blunt, aphoristic and inspired stile of the Net. Provocative. Heresy, possibly. But a heresy which in four "digital precepts" restores the basic values advocated by a hero of yesterday and tomorrow named Jesus. An "open" work fed by the thoughts of many. And one which, in order to live, must be nourished by all of you, the angels of a new digital heaven. As a collective work, it is not just the thinking of one person, but of all those the author read and met (virtually) online.
Journals: 1990 - 2014
Author: Rudy Rucker
Publisher: Transreal Books
ISBN: 0985827203
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1313
Book Description
Ride the wave with Rudy Rucker---author, programmer, mathematician, professor, cyberpunk, hipster, transrealist, and family man. A writer’s journey. Rucker composed "Journals: 1990-2014" over twenty-five years. A long-running adventure. Entries include: Introspection and philosophizing, sketches of daily life, descriptions of Rucker's travels, and notes on writing.
Publisher: Transreal Books
ISBN: 0985827203
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1313
Book Description
Ride the wave with Rudy Rucker---author, programmer, mathematician, professor, cyberpunk, hipster, transrealist, and family man. A writer’s journey. Rucker composed "Journals: 1990-2014" over twenty-five years. A long-running adventure. Entries include: Introspection and philosophizing, sketches of daily life, descriptions of Rucker's travels, and notes on writing.
Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility
Author: Arianna Dagnino
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557537062
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility, Arianna Dagnino analyzes a new type of literature emerging from artists' increased movement and cultural flows spawned by globalization. This "transcultural" literature is produced by authors who write across cultural and national boundaries. Dagnino's book contains a creative rendition of interviews conducted with five internationally renowned writers-Inez Baranay, Brian Castro, Alberto Manguel, Tim Parks, and Ilija Trojanow-and a critical exegesis reflecting on thematic critical, and stylistic aspects. By studying the selected authors' corpus of work, life experiences, and cultural orientations, Dagnino explores the implicit, often subconscious process of cultural and imaginative metamorphosis that leads transcultural writers and their fictionalized characters beyond ethnic national, racial, or religious loci of identity and identity formation. "The work is a significant contribution to scholorship, for it increases our theoretical awareness of today's literary developments, providing us with critical tools that enable us to approach literary texts with an innovative perspective."-Maurizio Ascari, Universita di Bologna.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557537062
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility, Arianna Dagnino analyzes a new type of literature emerging from artists' increased movement and cultural flows spawned by globalization. This "transcultural" literature is produced by authors who write across cultural and national boundaries. Dagnino's book contains a creative rendition of interviews conducted with five internationally renowned writers-Inez Baranay, Brian Castro, Alberto Manguel, Tim Parks, and Ilija Trojanow-and a critical exegesis reflecting on thematic critical, and stylistic aspects. By studying the selected authors' corpus of work, life experiences, and cultural orientations, Dagnino explores the implicit, often subconscious process of cultural and imaginative metamorphosis that leads transcultural writers and their fictionalized characters beyond ethnic national, racial, or religious loci of identity and identity formation. "The work is a significant contribution to scholorship, for it increases our theoretical awareness of today's literary developments, providing us with critical tools that enable us to approach literary texts with an innovative perspective."-Maurizio Ascari, Universita di Bologna.
The Afrikaner
Author: Arianna Dagnino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771833578
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A crime in the underbelly of deeper Johannesburg leads Zoe du Plessis, a palaeontologist of Afrikaner origin, to believe her family's secret is wrapped in an old shaman's spell. When Zoe heads for the merciless Kalahari Desert in search of early human fossils, her scientific expedition exposes instead South Africa's darker past to a scorching sun. Atonement will come through the pages of a lover's notebook still to be written."--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771833578
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A crime in the underbelly of deeper Johannesburg leads Zoe du Plessis, a palaeontologist of Afrikaner origin, to believe her family's secret is wrapped in an old shaman's spell. When Zoe heads for the merciless Kalahari Desert in search of early human fossils, her scientific expedition exposes instead South Africa's darker past to a scorching sun. Atonement will come through the pages of a lover's notebook still to be written."--
International Television & Video Almanac
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home video systems industry
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home video systems industry
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema
Author: Richard Leonard
Publisher: Academic Monographs
ISBN: 9780522859942
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
'Magical', 'out of this world', 'an experience you'll never forget': Peter Weir's films have enthralled audiences around the globe. Whether in iconic Australian works such as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli or international mainstream thrillers such as Witness, Weir has deliberately created mystical movie experiences. Modern cinema studies is used to dissecting films on the basis of gender, class or race: now, for the first time, Richard Leonard shows that a mystical gaze also exists and is exercised in the secular multiplex temples of today. The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema is a meticulous and accessible book that uses a psychoanalytic approach incorporating the insights of Jung, film theory and theology to break new ground in what continues to be a hot topic in cinema studies: the spectator/screen relationship. Leonard provides a fresh and innovative perspective on what happens when we behold a film.
Publisher: Academic Monographs
ISBN: 9780522859942
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
'Magical', 'out of this world', 'an experience you'll never forget': Peter Weir's films have enthralled audiences around the globe. Whether in iconic Australian works such as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli or international mainstream thrillers such as Witness, Weir has deliberately created mystical movie experiences. Modern cinema studies is used to dissecting films on the basis of gender, class or race: now, for the first time, Richard Leonard shows that a mystical gaze also exists and is exercised in the secular multiplex temples of today. The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema is a meticulous and accessible book that uses a psychoanalytic approach incorporating the insights of Jung, film theory and theology to break new ground in what continues to be a hot topic in cinema studies: the spectator/screen relationship. Leonard provides a fresh and innovative perspective on what happens when we behold a film.
New Media
Author: Leah A. Lievrouw
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415431603
Category : Digital media
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415431603
Category : Digital media
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Virtual Art
Author: Oliver Grau
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262572231
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
An overview of the art historical antecedents to virtual reality and the impact of virtual reality on contemporary conceptions of art. Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us to understand the phenomenon of virtual reality beyond the hype. Grau shows how each epoch used the technical means available to produce maximum illusion. He discusses frescoes such as those in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii and the gardens of the Villa Livia near Primaporta, Renaissance and Baroque illusion spaces, and panoramas, which were the most developed form of illusion achieved through traditional methods of painting and the mass image medium before film. Through a detailed analysis of perhaps the most important German panorama, Anton von Werner's 1883 The Battle of Sedan, Grau shows how immersion produced emotional responses. He traces immersive cinema through Cinerama, Sensorama, Expanded Cinema, 3-D, Omnimax and IMAX, and the head mounted display with its military origins. He also examines those characteristics of virtual reality that distinguish it from earlier forms of illusionary art. His analysis draws on the work of contemporary artists and groups ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, Monika Fleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac, Knowbotic Research, Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Paul Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and Wolfgang Strauss. Grau offers not just a history of illusionary space but also a theoretical framework for analyzing its phenomenologies, functions, and strategies throughout history and into the future.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262572231
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
An overview of the art historical antecedents to virtual reality and the impact of virtual reality on contemporary conceptions of art. Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us to understand the phenomenon of virtual reality beyond the hype. Grau shows how each epoch used the technical means available to produce maximum illusion. He discusses frescoes such as those in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii and the gardens of the Villa Livia near Primaporta, Renaissance and Baroque illusion spaces, and panoramas, which were the most developed form of illusion achieved through traditional methods of painting and the mass image medium before film. Through a detailed analysis of perhaps the most important German panorama, Anton von Werner's 1883 The Battle of Sedan, Grau shows how immersion produced emotional responses. He traces immersive cinema through Cinerama, Sensorama, Expanded Cinema, 3-D, Omnimax and IMAX, and the head mounted display with its military origins. He also examines those characteristics of virtual reality that distinguish it from earlier forms of illusionary art. His analysis draws on the work of contemporary artists and groups ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, Monika Fleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac, Knowbotic Research, Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Paul Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and Wolfgang Strauss. Grau offers not just a history of illusionary space but also a theoretical framework for analyzing its phenomenologies, functions, and strategies throughout history and into the future.
The Cinema Effect
Author: Sean Cubitt
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262532778
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A history of images in motion that explores the"special effect" of cinema.
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262532778
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A history of images in motion that explores the"special effect" of cinema.
Indianapolis Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.