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Mobile apps promise to deliver (h)appiness to our devices at the touch of a finger ortwo. Apps offer gratifyingly immediate access to connection and entertainment. The array of appsdownloadable from the app store may come from the cloud, but they attach themselves firmly to ourindividual movement from location to location on earth. In The Imaginary App,writers, theorists, and artists--including Stephen Wolfram (in conversation with Paul Miller) andLev Manovich--explore the cultural and technological shifts that have accompanied the emergence ofthe mobile app. These contributors and interviewees see apps variously as "a machine oftranscendence," "a hulking wound in our nervous system," or "a promise of newpossibilities." They ask whether the app is an object or a relation, and if it could be a"metamedium" that supersedes all other artistic media. They consider the control and powerexercised by software architecture; the app's prosthetic ability to enhance certain humancapacities, in reality or in imagination; the app economy, and the divergent possibilities it offersof making a living or making a fortune; and the app as medium and remediator ofreality.
Also included (and documented in color) are selected projects by artistsasked to design truly imaginary apps, "icons of the impossible." These include a femalesexual arousal graph using Doppler images; "The Ultimate App," which accepts a payment andthen closes, without providing information or functionality; and "iLuck," which uses GPStechnology and four-leaf-clover icons to mark places where luck might befound.
ContributorsChristian Ulrik Andersen, Thierry Bardini,Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Benjamin H. Bratton, Drew S. Burk, Patricia Ticineto Clough, RobbieCormier, Dock Currie, Dal Yong Jin, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Ryan and Hays Holladay, Atle MikkolaKjosen, Eric Kluitenberg, Lev Manovich, Vincent Manzerolle, Svitlana Matviyenko, Dan Mellamphy, PaulD. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Steven Millward, Anna Munster, Soren Bro Pold, ChrisRichards, Scott Snibbe, Nick Srnicek, Stephen Wolfram
作者簡介
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer. He is the author of Rhythm Science and Sound Unbound, both published by the MIT Press. Svitlana Matviyenko is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
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