Speclab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing - Couverture rigide

Drucker, Johanna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226165078 ISBN 13 : 9780226165073

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2009

Synopsis

Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. Here she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects Drucker engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists' Books Online to the as yet unrealized 'Patacritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, "SpecLab" functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker's contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age - models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Johanna Drucker is the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books, including Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0226165078
• ISBN 13: 9780226165073
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible