false 151641 1 In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, Munster seeks to "materialize" digital culture by demonstrating that its aesthetics have reconfigured bodily experience and reconceived materiality.<br><br>Her topics range from artistic experiments in body-computer interfaces to the impact that corporeal interaction and geopolitical circumstances have on producing new media art and culture. She argues that new media, materiality, perception, and artistic practices now mutually constitute "information aesthetics." Information aesthetics is concerned with new modes of sensory engagement in which distributed spaces and temporal variation play crucial roles. In analyzing the experiments that new media art performs with the materiality of space and time, Munster demonstrates how new media has likewise changed our bodies and those of others in global information culture.<br><br>Materializing New Media calls for a re-examination of the roles of both body and affect in their relation to the virtual and to abstract codes of information. It offers a nonlinear approach to aesthetics and art history based on a concept of "folding" that can discern certain kinds of proximities and continuations across distances in time (in particular between the Baroque and the digital). Finally, it analyzes digital culture through a logic of the differential rather than of the binary. This allows the author to overcome a habit of futurism, which until now has plagued analyses of new media art and culture. Technology is now not seen as surpassing the human body but continually reconfiguring it and constitutive of it. 146362 31 3 2006 Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) total:10|5:3|4:4|3:3| 10 40 20 2 5 0 false false Wed Sep 10 20:42:25 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 20:47:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Aug 01 14:00:15 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 14:00:42 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 14:58:32 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 14:58:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 16 07:37:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 09:44:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 02 07:07:36 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 07:07:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 28 08:02:45 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 09:57:35 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Apr 10 06:36:14 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 06:36:14 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Apr 09 16:17:42 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 16:51:33 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Mar 24 07:31:49 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 07:31:49 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 29 21:11:26 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 21:48:22 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 21:11:26 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Dec 20 11:13:31 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 11:13:31 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 30 21:54:39 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 21:54:40 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jan 31 21:56:45 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 16 05:52:10 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 31 21:56:45 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 18 00:58:46 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 00:58:46 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Sep 17 05:57:48 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 06:14:53 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Sep 14 11:03:23 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 11:03:32 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Jul 02 16:55:25 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 16:55:25 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jun 28 19:35:57 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 21:23:23 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 28 07:19:22 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 07:19:33 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat May 23 09:07:08 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 24 11:02:53 -0700 2008 Sat May 23 09:07:08 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=151641