| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Technologies |
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Technologies (London, England)
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| Contents |
Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Thresholds Between Media and History; Chapter 1 Pictures of the New and the Materialization of Vision from the Age of Discovery to the Era of the Posthuman; Part 2: Reinventing Media Histories; Chapter 2 The Materialization of Sentience: The Dynamo and the Virgin; Chapter 3 The Incubator: Nipce's Heliographic Imprint of 1826; Chapter 4 Reimagining the Computer's Origins: Mechanical Drawing and Charles Babbage's Calculating Engines; Chapter 5 Alternate Models of the Virtual: Optical Thresholds in Camera Lucidas and Head-mounted Displays |
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Chapter 6 Beyond the Cyborg: Antonio Panizzi's 1852 Diagram for a Circular Reading Room at the British MuseumPart 3: Future Histories; Chapter 7 Unorthodox Time Machines: Images and Instruments across Space, Time and History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Multimedia systems -- History
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Information storage and retrieval systems.
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Information Systems
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COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- General.
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COMPUTERS -- Web -- User Generated Content.
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COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia.
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COMPUTERS -- Web -- Site Design.
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Information storage and retrieval systems
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Multimedia systems
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Waarneming.
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Technologie.
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Visuele middelen.
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Histoire.
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Multimédia.
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Perception sensorielle.
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Représentation visuelle.
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Système de formation d'image.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004043824 |
| ISBN |
1847140815 |
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9781847140814 |
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9780826462732 |
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0826462731 |
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9781441187659 |
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1441187650 |
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1282452320 |
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9781282452329 |
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1472545508 |
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9781472545503 |
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9786612452321 |
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6612452323 |
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1281298786 |
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9781281298782 |
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9786611298784 |
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6611298789 |
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