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Confessional video art and subjectivity : private experiences in public spaces
Early, Jaye
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
, 2025
; English
; 185 Pages
This is the first book of its kind to examine the development of the confessional subject in video art and demonstrate how it can provide a vital platform for navigating the politics of self, subjectivity, and resistance in society. In doing so, it reframes video art – the most ubiquitous and yet most understudied art form of recent decades – as an urgent socio-political tool that is increasingly popular among contemporary artists as a means of exploring a broad range of social issues, from politics and identity, to the body and technologies of self-representation.
Analysing a diverse selection of case studies from the 1960s up to the present day, covering the work of Yoko Ono, Gillian Wearing, Ryan Trecartin, Tracey Emin, Anatasia Klose, and Heath Franco, among others, the book brings together theory and practice to look afresh at contemporary video art through a Foucauldian lens. It also brings the analysis of video art up to date by showing how social media and digital self representation has informed and further politicized time-based art practices.
Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity shows how forms of confessional discourse not only play an important function in the construction of subjectivity but also open spaces for personal resistance and agency within contemporary video art. As a result, it offers researchers of contemporary art practice, and media and cultural studies, an updated framework through which to view this constantly-evolving genre and a deeper understanding of wider contemporary video practices.
Early, Jaye
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
, 2025
; English
; 185 Pages
This is the first book of its kind to examine the development of the confessional subject in video art and demonstrate how it can provide a vital platform for navigating the politics of self, subjectivity, and resistance in society. In doing so, it reframes video art – the most ubiquitous and yet most understudied art form of recent decades – as an urgent socio-political tool that is increasingly popular among contemporary artists as a means of exploring a broad range of social issues, from politics and identity, to the body and technologies of self-representation.
Analysing a diverse selection of case studies from the 1960s up to the present day, covering the work of Yoko Ono, Gillian Wearing, Ryan Trecartin, Tracey Emin, Anatasia Klose, and Heath Franco, among others, the book brings together theory and practice to look afresh at contemporary video art through a Foucauldian lens. It also brings the analysis of video art up to date by showing how social media and digital self representation has informed and further politicized time-based art practices.
Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity shows how forms of confessional discourse not only play an important function in the construction of subjectivity but also open spaces for personal resistance and agency within contemporary video art. As a result, it offers researchers of contemporary art practice, and media and cultural studies, an updated framework through which to view this constantly-evolving genre and a deeper understanding of wider contemporary video practices.
eBook
Stay, Jesse
For Dummies
, 2024
; English
; 274 Pages
The essential guide to the popular, beginner-friendly graphic design platform Canva For Dummies is a beautiful full-color reference, covering everything you need to create dazzling visual materials in Canva Free and Pro versions.
Discover all tools, templates, and features at the ready, plus utilize expert tips and tricks to improve your design and visual communication skills.
Start with basic functionalities and graphic design principles, and then work your way up to more complex design tasks with ease.
Canva For Dummies also covers Canva's new AI tool, Magic Studio, so you'll be up to speed on everything this cool app can do.
Plus, the useful case studies and practical design projects inside are sure to ignite your creativity.
Create effective social media posts, presentations, brand style guides, and everything in between, thanks to the helpful guidance in this book. Understand the Canva interface and get a primer on graphic design Explore advanced tools and techniques, including Canva's new AI tool, Magic Studio Create engaging visuals for business, social media, and beyond Utilize Canva hacks and trends to make your graphics pop This handy guide is for everyone, answering all your questions whether you're new to the platform or a current user.
Rock your next design project with Canva For Dummies!
eBook
Stay, Jesse
For Dummies
, 2024
; English
; 274 Pages
The essential guide to the popular, beginner-friendly graphic design platform Canva For Dummies is a beautiful full-color reference, covering everything you need to create dazzling visual materials in Canva Free and Pro versions.
Discover all tools, templates, and features at the ready, plus utilize expert tips and tricks to improve your design and visual communication skills.
Start with basic functionalities and graphic design principles, and then work your way up to more complex design tasks with ease.
Canva For Dummies also covers Canva's new AI tool, Magic Studio, so you'll be up to speed on everything this cool app can do.
Plus, the useful case studies and practical design projects inside are sure to ignite your creativity.
Create effective social media posts, presentations, brand style guides, and everything in between, thanks to the helpful guidance in this book. Understand the Canva interface and get a primer on graphic design Explore advanced tools and techniques, including Canva's new AI tool, Magic Studio Create engaging visuals for business, social media, and beyond Utilize Canva hacks and trends to make your graphics pop This handy guide is for everyone, answering all your questions whether you're new to the platform or a current user.
Rock your next design project with Canva For Dummies!
eBook
Diffusing music : trajectories of sonic democratization
Neill, Ben
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2024
; English
; 249 Pages
This book explores the democratization of music in our current era made possible by digital technologies.
Music has become ubiquitous and increasingly intertwined with everyday life, rendering previous models of creation, performance, and consumption obsolete. Diffusing Music identifies trajectories between 20th-century innovators and the broader redefinition of the musical art in popular culture today. This approach can inform new modalities of musical thinking in the wake of the transformations being actualized by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The author has been an active participant in many of the scenes and movements that gave rise to musical democratization. His experiences and collaborations with influential figures in the field are woven into the fabric of the narrative.
Neill, Ben
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2024
; English
; 249 Pages
This book explores the democratization of music in our current era made possible by digital technologies.
Music has become ubiquitous and increasingly intertwined with everyday life, rendering previous models of creation, performance, and consumption obsolete. Diffusing Music identifies trajectories between 20th-century innovators and the broader redefinition of the musical art in popular culture today. This approach can inform new modalities of musical thinking in the wake of the transformations being actualized by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The author has been an active participant in many of the scenes and movements that gave rise to musical democratization. His experiences and collaborations with influential figures in the field are woven into the fabric of the narrative.
eBook
Appreciation post : towards an art history of Instagram
Ward, Tara
University of California Press
, 2024
; English
; 322 Pages
What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post reveals how Instagram shifts long-established ways of interacting with images. Tara Ward argues Instagram is a structure of the visual, which includes not just the process of looking, but what can be seen and by whom. She examines features of Instagram use, including the effect of scrolling through images on a phone, the skill involved in taking an "Instagram-worthy" picture, and the desires created by following influencers, to explain how the constraints imposed by Instagram limit the selves that can be displayed on it. The proliferation of technical knowledge, especially among younger women, revitalizes on Instagram the myth of the masculine genius and a corresponding reinvigoration of a masculine audience for art. Ward prompts scholars of art history, gender studies, and media studies to attend to Instagram as a site of visual expression and social consequence. Through its insightful comparative analysis and acute close reading, Appreciation Post argues for art history's value in understanding the contemporary world and the visual nature of identity today.
Ward, Tara
University of California Press
, 2024
; English
; 322 Pages
What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post reveals how Instagram shifts long-established ways of interacting with images. Tara Ward argues Instagram is a structure of the visual, which includes not just the process of looking, but what can be seen and by whom. She examines features of Instagram use, including the effect of scrolling through images on a phone, the skill involved in taking an "Instagram-worthy" picture, and the desires created by following influencers, to explain how the constraints imposed by Instagram limit the selves that can be displayed on it. The proliferation of technical knowledge, especially among younger women, revitalizes on Instagram the myth of the masculine genius and a corresponding reinvigoration of a masculine audience for art. Ward prompts scholars of art history, gender studies, and media studies to attend to Instagram as a site of visual expression and social consequence. Through its insightful comparative analysis and acute close reading, Appreciation Post argues for art history's value in understanding the contemporary world and the visual nature of identity today.
eBook
Morris, Roz
Right Book Press
, 2024
; English
; 180 Pages
The visual economy is here and we are all broadcasters now!
In today’s fast-paced world of constant media, moving images and digital presence, broadcasting is no longer the preserve of the privileged few. When every visual choice has the power to make or break reputations, success in this highly competitive economy hinges on mastering the skills of visual communication.
The Visual Revolution Guidebook is your essential toolkit for navigating and leveraging this new visual-centric landscape and understanding its dynamics in the modern business environment.
Media expert Roz Morris delves deep into the strategies and skills you need to stand out and flourish amidst the constant imagery of the modern 24-hour media cycle. Through illuminating case studies, proven approaches and user-friendly, practical advice and checklists, you’ll be equipped with an impressive range of advanced media skills, including how to:
• Craft a compelling online presence.
• Produce impactful promotional videos.
• Fine-tune presentation skills across diverse media platforms.
• Shine in media interviews with confidence and precision.
• Harness the incredible potential of the metaverse.
• Understand the evolving role of influencers.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, marketer or business leader seeking to understand and excel in modern business communication, this is more than just a must-read – it’s an expert and indispensable roadmap to thriving in the visual revolution.
Morris, Roz
Right Book Press
, 2024
; English
; 180 Pages
The visual economy is here and we are all broadcasters now!
In today’s fast-paced world of constant media, moving images and digital presence, broadcasting is no longer the preserve of the privileged few. When every visual choice has the power to make or break reputations, success in this highly competitive economy hinges on mastering the skills of visual communication.
The Visual Revolution Guidebook is your essential toolkit for navigating and leveraging this new visual-centric landscape and understanding its dynamics in the modern business environment.
Media expert Roz Morris delves deep into the strategies and skills you need to stand out and flourish amidst the constant imagery of the modern 24-hour media cycle. Through illuminating case studies, proven approaches and user-friendly, practical advice and checklists, you’ll be equipped with an impressive range of advanced media skills, including how to:
• Craft a compelling online presence.
• Produce impactful promotional videos.
• Fine-tune presentation skills across diverse media platforms.
• Shine in media interviews with confidence and precision.
• Harness the incredible potential of the metaverse.
• Understand the evolving role of influencers.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, marketer or business leader seeking to understand and excel in modern business communication, this is more than just a must-read – it’s an expert and indispensable roadmap to thriving in the visual revolution.
eBook
Gerhard Richter and the technological condition of painting
Guillermet, Aline
Edinburgh University Press
, 2024
; English
; 257 Pages
Aline Guillermet uncovers Richter’s appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist’s well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting.
Through a study of Richter’s portraits, history paintings, landscapes and ornamental abstractions, Guillermet reveals the artist’s role in affirming the technological condition of painting in the second half of the twentieth century: a historical situation in which the medium and its conventions have become shaped, and to some extent transformed, by technological innovations.
Guillermet, Aline
Edinburgh University Press
, 2024
; English
; 257 Pages
Aline Guillermet uncovers Richter’s appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist’s well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting.
Through a study of Richter’s portraits, history paintings, landscapes and ornamental abstractions, Guillermet reveals the artist’s role in affirming the technological condition of painting in the second half of the twentieth century: a historical situation in which the medium and its conventions have become shaped, and to some extent transformed, by technological innovations.
eBook
Robotic vision and virtual interfacing : seeing, sensing, shaping
Eldridge, Luci; Trivedi, Nina
Edinburgh University Press
, 2024
; English
; 362 Pages
How do past and present technologies affect how we perceive the world and see things?
- Addresses the threats posed by mediated forms of seeing and processing as well as the potential for robotic visions to help reframe our human perspective and experience of the world
- Offers a multidisciplinary approach including contributions written from art historical, design history and critical image theory perspectives through sociological insights
- Includes several case studies including the use of social robots, robotic vision within virtual reality programmes, head-mounted displays and mapping tools such as Google Earth
- Contributes to scholarship on robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies from arts, media theory, and science and technology studies perspectives
As the symbiotic relationship between human and machine unfolds, robotic vision facilitates a reshaping and reconstitution of our perception of the world. This edited collection explores ways in which this is taking place and the implictions for these new ways of seeing ethically, politically, culturally and socially from an art and design perspective and through a critical theoretical lens.
The contributors converge on the intersection of New Materialism, Media Studies and Cultural Theory and offer speculative approaches combining creative writing and visual interludes from artists and designers, all of which address the question: are we on the cusp of new ways of seeing?
Eldridge, Luci; Trivedi, Nina
Edinburgh University Press
, 2024
; English
; 362 Pages
How do past and present technologies affect how we perceive the world and see things?
- Addresses the threats posed by mediated forms of seeing and processing as well as the potential for robotic visions to help reframe our human perspective and experience of the world
- Offers a multidisciplinary approach including contributions written from art historical, design history and critical image theory perspectives through sociological insights
- Includes several case studies including the use of social robots, robotic vision within virtual reality programmes, head-mounted displays and mapping tools such as Google Earth
- Contributes to scholarship on robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies from arts, media theory, and science and technology studies perspectives
As the symbiotic relationship between human and machine unfolds, robotic vision facilitates a reshaping and reconstitution of our perception of the world. This edited collection explores ways in which this is taking place and the implictions for these new ways of seeing ethically, politically, culturally and socially from an art and design perspective and through a critical theoretical lens.
The contributors converge on the intersection of New Materialism, Media Studies and Cultural Theory and offer speculative approaches combining creative writing and visual interludes from artists and designers, all of which address the question: are we on the cusp of new ways of seeing?
eBook
Arabic glitch : technoculture, data bodies, and archives
Sakr, Laila Shereen
Stanford University Press
, 2023
; English
; 196 Pages
Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics—one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements.
Engaging revolutionary politics, Arab media, and digital practice in form, method, and content, Laila Shereen Sakr formulates a media theory that advances the concept of the glitch as a disruptive media affordance. She employs data analytics to analyze tweets, posts, and blogs to describe the political culture of social media, and performs the results under the guise of the Arabic-speaking cyborg VJ Um Amel. Playing with multiple voices that span across the virtual and the real, Sakr argues that there is no longer a divide between the virtual and embodied: both bodies and data are physically, socially, and energetically actual. Are we cyborgs or citizens—or both? This book teaches us how a region under transformation became a vanguard for new thinking about digital systems: the records they keep, the lives they impact, and how to create change from within.
Sakr, Laila Shereen
Stanford University Press
, 2023
; English
; 196 Pages
Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics—one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements.
Engaging revolutionary politics, Arab media, and digital practice in form, method, and content, Laila Shereen Sakr formulates a media theory that advances the concept of the glitch as a disruptive media affordance. She employs data analytics to analyze tweets, posts, and blogs to describe the political culture of social media, and performs the results under the guise of the Arabic-speaking cyborg VJ Um Amel. Playing with multiple voices that span across the virtual and the real, Sakr argues that there is no longer a divide between the virtual and embodied: both bodies and data are physically, socially, and energetically actual. Are we cyborgs or citizens—or both? This book teaches us how a region under transformation became a vanguard for new thinking about digital systems: the records they keep, the lives they impact, and how to create change from within.
eBook
Pixels & paintings: Foundations of computer-assisted connoisseurship
Stork, David G.
Wiley
, 2023
; English
; 786 Pages
PIXELS & PAINTINGS
“The discussion is firmly grounded in established art historical practices, such as close visual analysis and an understanding of artists’ working methods, and real-world examples demonstrate how computer-assisted techniques can complement traditional approaches.”
—Dr. Emilie Gordenker, Director of the Van Gogh Museum
The pioneering presentation of computer-based image analysis of fine art, forging a dialog between art scholars and the computer vision community
In recent years, sophisticated computer vision, graphics, and artificial intelligence algorithms have proven to be increasingly powerful tools in the study of fine art. These methods—some adapted from forensic digital photography and others developed specifically for art—empower a growing number of computer-savvy art scholars, conservators, and historians to answer longstanding questions as well as provide new approaches to the interpretation of art.
Pixels & Paintings provides the first and authoritative overview of the broad range of these methods, which extend from image processing of palette, marks, brush strokes, and shapes up through analysis of objects, poses, style, composition, to the computation of simple interpretations of artworks. This book stresses that computer methods for art analysis must always incorporate the cultural contexts appropriate to the art studies at hand—a blend of humanistic and scientific expertise.
• Describes powerful computer image analysis methods and their application to problems in the history and interpretation of fine art
• Discusses some of the art historical lessons and revelations provided by the use of these methods
• Clarifies the assumptions and applicability of methods and the role of cultural contexts in their use
• Shows how computation can be used to analyze tens of thousands of artworks to reveal trends and anomalies that could not be found by traditional non-computer methods
Pixels & Paintings is essential reading for computer image analysts and graphics specialists, conservators, historians, students, psychologists and the general public interested in the study and appreciation of art.
Stork, David G.
Wiley
, 2023
; English
; 786 Pages
PIXELS & PAINTINGS
“The discussion is firmly grounded in established art historical practices, such as close visual analysis and an understanding of artists’ working methods, and real-world examples demonstrate how computer-assisted techniques can complement traditional approaches.”
—Dr. Emilie Gordenker, Director of the Van Gogh Museum
The pioneering presentation of computer-based image analysis of fine art, forging a dialog between art scholars and the computer vision community
In recent years, sophisticated computer vision, graphics, and artificial intelligence algorithms have proven to be increasingly powerful tools in the study of fine art. These methods—some adapted from forensic digital photography and others developed specifically for art—empower a growing number of computer-savvy art scholars, conservators, and historians to answer longstanding questions as well as provide new approaches to the interpretation of art.
Pixels & Paintings provides the first and authoritative overview of the broad range of these methods, which extend from image processing of palette, marks, brush strokes, and shapes up through analysis of objects, poses, style, composition, to the computation of simple interpretations of artworks. This book stresses that computer methods for art analysis must always incorporate the cultural contexts appropriate to the art studies at hand—a blend of humanistic and scientific expertise.
• Describes powerful computer image analysis methods and their application to problems in the history and interpretation of fine art
• Discusses some of the art historical lessons and revelations provided by the use of these methods
• Clarifies the assumptions and applicability of methods and the role of cultural contexts in their use
• Shows how computation can be used to analyze tens of thousands of artworks to reveal trends and anomalies that could not be found by traditional non-computer methods
Pixels & Paintings is essential reading for computer image analysts and graphics specialists, conservators, historians, students, psychologists and the general public interested in the study and appreciation of art.
eBook
Geil, Abraham; Jirsa, Tomáš
Edinburgh University Press
, 2023
; English
; 313 Pages
Presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital media
- Extends the domain of portraiture to include not just painting, photography, and film but also ethography, literature, music video, social media, digital apps and algorithmic facial recognition
- Includes case studies from France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, Canada, and the United States
- Presents ‘the portrait’ as a media-theoretical concept and traces its practices within diverse sets of material, technological, and media networks
- Brings together both internationally renowned and emerging scholars across a range of disciplines, including: media studies, art history, critical theory, science and technology studies, and medical humanities, and animal studies
As technological practices of the portrait have proliferated across the media ecosystem in recent years, this canonical genre of identity and representation has provoked a new wave of scholarly attention and artistic experimentation.
This collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of subjects entangled in specific medial configurations. Tracking the portrait across a wide range of media – literature, drawings, paintings, grave stelae, films, gallery installations, contemporary music videos, deep fakes, social media, video games and immersive VR interfaces – the contributors interrogate and transform persistent metaphysical and anthropocentric assumptions inherited from traditional notions of portraiture.
Geil, Abraham; Jirsa, Tomáš
Edinburgh University Press
, 2023
; English
; 313 Pages
Presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital media
- Extends the domain of portraiture to include not just painting, photography, and film but also ethography, literature, music video, social media, digital apps and algorithmic facial recognition
- Includes case studies from France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, Canada, and the United States
- Presents ‘the portrait’ as a media-theoretical concept and traces its practices within diverse sets of material, technological, and media networks
- Brings together both internationally renowned and emerging scholars across a range of disciplines, including: media studies, art history, critical theory, science and technology studies, and medical humanities, and animal studies
As technological practices of the portrait have proliferated across the media ecosystem in recent years, this canonical genre of identity and representation has provoked a new wave of scholarly attention and artistic experimentation.
This collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of subjects entangled in specific medial configurations. Tracking the portrait across a wide range of media – literature, drawings, paintings, grave stelae, films, gallery installations, contemporary music videos, deep fakes, social media, video games and immersive VR interfaces – the contributors interrogate and transform persistent metaphysical and anthropocentric assumptions inherited from traditional notions of portraiture.
