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Image in the Making

Digital Innovation and the Visual Arts

Katherine Thomson-Jones author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:8th Oct '21

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Human beings have always made images, and to do so they have developed and refined an enormous range of artistic tools and materials. With the development of digital technology, the ways of making images - whether they are still or moving, 2D or 3D - have evolved at an unprecedented rate. At every stage of image making, artists now face a choice between using analog and using digital tools. Yet a digital image need not look digital; and likewise, a hand-made image or traditional photograph need not look analog. If we do not see the artist's choice between the analog and the digital, what difference can this choice make for our appreciation of images in the digital age? Image in the Making answers this question by accounting for the fundamental distinction between the analog and the digital; by explicating the technological realization of this distinction in image-making practice; and by exploring the creative possibilities that are distinctive of the digital. Katherine Thomson-Jones makes the case for a new kind of appreciation in the digital age. In appreciating the images involved in every digital art form - from digital video installation to net art to digital cinema - there is a basic truth that we cannot ignore: The nature and technology of the digital expands both what an image can be as an image and what an image can be for us as human beings.

For readers exploring the specificity of digital media, Image in the Making offers a solid introduction and raises questions and distinctions that are helpful for both viewers and makers of digital art. The book's aims are pedagogical, with each chapter stating its thesis clearly and concluding with a summation. While the style of argument may be new to some readers, and the emphasis on formal analysis without attention to broader political elements may be off putting to others, the book makes a useful contribution to the broader discussions of contemporary digital media. * Holly Willis, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind *
Katherine Thomson-Jones demonstrates that both a conceptual and technological understanding of the digital is required as part of a coherent and informed appreciation of the digital visual arts. * Alexis Anne-Braun, Information System in Philosophy of Science *

ISBN: 9780197567616

Dimensions: 148mm x 218mm x 18mm

Weight: 304g

152 pages