In this wide-ranging book, Frances Dyson examines the role of sound in thedevelopment of economic and ecological systems that are today in crisis. Connecting early theoriesof harmony, cosmology, and t
In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi Valiaho charts and conceptualizesthe imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-centurycapitalism. Valiaho investigates the role screen
In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with thisdilemma: how can we speak of "new media" and at the same time write the histories of thesearts? These scholars and practitioners redefi
Contemporary artists beginning with Guy Debord and Richard Long have returned againand again to the walking motif. Debord and his friends tracked the urban flows of Paris; Longtrampled a path in the g
An exploration of artworks that use weather or atmosphere as the primary medium, creating new coalitions of collective engagement with the climate crisis.In a time of climate crisis, a growing number
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented theiraudiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations.Such panoramas were im
How art makes visible what had been invisible—the effects of radiation, the lives of atomic bomb survivors, and the politics of the atomic age.The effects of radiation are invisible, but art can make
Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are our most importantexplorations of this condition. The history of visual technologies reveals a centuries-long projectaimed at controlling
