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Laura U. Marks - The Skin of the Film

Laura U. Marks, The Skin of the Film, Duke UP, 2000.
If cinema is an audiovisual medium in nature, why does Laura Marks look for nonaudiovisual sense experience in cinema? Of course, the films and videos she tries to examine are not just the general cinemas but what she calls intercultural cinemas. Why does intercultural cinema… »

W. J. T. Mitchell’s Iconology and Picture Theory

What is an image? What is picture? Rather, what is the relationship between image and idea, image and word, the visual and the verbal, or the visible and the sayable? What is the relation of pictures and language? Is the one superior to the other, or each of them belongs to the different realm? The… »

[CFP]Philosophy of Photography

Philosophy of Photography
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First published in 2010 (forthcoming)
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Philosophy of Photography is a new peer reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of photography. It is not committed to any one notion of photography nor,… »

Linda Williams - Hard Core

Linda Williams, Hard Core, U of California Press, 1989.
Why is pornography regarded as a dangerous and suppressive matter for somebody, and why is it thought as a site of liberation, or at least a site of struggle for freedom? How can it be at once oppressive and emancipatory? In what condition pornography works for the… »

W.J.T. Mitchell - What Do Pictures Want?

W.J.T. Mitchell, “The Surplus Value of Images” + “Showing Seeing” in What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images, U of Chicago Press, 2005.
What Mitchell is trying to explain in “The Surplus Value of Images” is the nature of images – paradoxically under- and over-estimated – confused with pictures or works of art… »

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis
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The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in theMedia Design Program, a graduate studio at… »

SIGGRAPH 2009 - Information Aesthetics

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For over 35 years, the SIGGRAPH conference has been the premier venue for showcasing work in computer graphics and interactive techniques, and it has a long history of recognizing beauty in concert with technology. For SIGGRAPH 2009, the conference is developing Information Aesthetics: a new thematic area that recognizes the increasingly… »

[Exhibition] The Aesthetics of Gaming

Pace Digital Gallery presents an exhibition curated by Michelle Kasprzak (Scotland), The Aesthetics of Gaming.
The Aesthetics of Gaming
~Michelle Kasprzak
February 10 - March 3
Reception Feb 26, 5 - 7pm
(5:00 pm lecture by Joe McKay / 6:00pm reception)

images (L-R): screenshots from Joe McKay, Avoid, Anita Fontaine and Mike Pelletier CuteXdoom II; patterns used on this page from CuteXdoom II
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Who owns the copyright of Obama’s hope poster?

From NYTimes
“ArtsBeat: A.P. Says It Owns Image in Obama Poster”
By By Dave Itzkoff
Published: February 5, 2009
The Associated Press says Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” poster, depicting President Barack Obama, infringes on its copyright to a photograph of the president.
Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish proves it here (”A Last Word - HOPEfully - and Updates on the Obama Poster… »

Obama inaugural concert, “We Are One” pictures

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