Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision

✍ Scribed by Toija Cinque (editor), Jordan Beth Vincent (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of everyday life, from workplaces to household devices - computer and digital television screens, appliances such as refrigerators and home assistants, and applications for social media and gaming. Each technologically enabled opportunity brings an increasingly sophisticated language with the act of pursuing the intrasensorial ways of perceiving the world around us - through touch, movement, sound and vision - that is the heart of screen media use and audience engagement with digital artifacts. Drawing on digital media's currently evolving transformation and transforming capacity this book builds a story of the multiple processes in robotics and AI, virtual reality, creative image and sound production, the representation of data and creative practice. Issues around commodification, identity, identification, and political economy are critically examined for the emerging and affecting encounters and perceptions that are brought to bear.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION one Socio-aesthetics of sound and sight
1 Virtual reality, the chiasm and the doubled body (Angela Ndalianis)
2 Sensing Sims: Atmospheres, aesthetics and the cyborg player (Merlin Seller)
3 Embodied audiovisual experience: The role of sound in contemporary screen and digital media (Darrin Verhagen and Ben Byrne)
4 Volumetric Black: Post-cinematic Blackness (Triton Mobley)
SECTION two Meaning-making in the data-driven era
5 Quantified me: Curatorial lives and the pixelated spectre of self (Toija Cinque)
6 Virtual reality and kinaesthetic connection: Qualities of ‘being there’ (Kim Vincs)
7 Feminist memes: Digital communities, identity performance and resistance from the shadows (Shana MacDonald and Brianna I. W
8 The infinite portrait: A case of post-human authorship (Andrew McIntyre)
SECTION three Touch, body, metal, screen
9 First encounters with robots through embodied observation, imagined narrative and choreography (Amy LaViers)
10 Physical digitality: Making reality visible through multimodal digital affordances for human perception (Luke Heemsbergen,
11 A true feel: Re-embodying the touch sense in the digital fashion experience ( Michela Ornati)
12 What robots learn from performative relationships and interactive performance (Steph Hutchison and John McCormick)
SECTION four Digital futures
13 Smart home: Smart devices and the everyday experiences of the home (Xi Cui)
14 Affect and the digitalization of war (John MacWillie)
15 Automation is a myth (Luke Munn)
16 A triadic typology of material mediation: Ontology, intentionality and vitalism (Renata Lemos Morais)
Index