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Beyond the Image Machine

A History of Visual Technologies

By: David Tomas

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Paperback | 1 March 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies is an eloquent and stimulating argument for an alternative history of scientific and technological imaging systems. It explores the ways in which the technological medium through which a piece of visual art is rendered contributes significantly to the experience of the human looking at it. Through a series of studies of individual art works, David Tomas gives a fascinating and wholly original account of the relationship between visual technology and human sensory perception. Illustrated throughout, the book draws on a range of hitherto marginalised examples from the world of visual representation. In examining these art works and, it draws upon the work of such key theorists as Latour, de Certeau, Mc Luhan and Barthes. Beyond the Image Machine is an original and contribution to the study of visual culture and the technologies that mediate it. It is a book that changes the terms of the debate and redefines the discipline. Anyone studying, teaching or researching in this area will find it a rich source of ideas and inspiration.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Graphical & Digital Media Applications Language & Linguistics Linguistics Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society Society & Culture Cultural Studies Media Studies Arts & Entertainment

Dance & Other Performing Arts Philosophy History of Western Philosophy

Introduction	p. 1
Thresholds Between Media and History	p. 11
Pictures of the New and the Materialization of Vision from the Age of Discovery to the Era of the Posthuman	p. 13
Reinventing Media Histories	p. 41
The Materialization of Sentience: The Dynamo and the Virgin	p. 43
The Incubator: Niepce's Heliographic Imprint of 1826	p. 61
Reimagining the Computer's Origins: Mechanical Drawing and Charles Babbage's Calculating Engines	p. 84
Alternate Models of the Virtual: Optical Thresholds in Camera Lucidas and Head-mounted Displays	p. 105
Beyond the Cyborg: Antonio Panizzi's 1852 Diagram for a Circular Reading Room at the British Museum	p. 136
Future Histories	p. 159
Unorthodox Time Machines: Images and Instruments across Space, Time and History	p. 161
Notes	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 221
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