Finite Media(Reprint) Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies (a Cultural Politics book) by SeanCubitt Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6292-0, ISBN: 0-8223-6292-9
"While digital media gives us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In "Finite Media" Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and human toll exacted by mining and the manufacture, use, and disposal of millions of phones, computers, and other devices. The way out is thro ..."
Timeshift(1st Edition) On Video Culture (Comedia) by SeanCubitt Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1991 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-01678-0, ISBN: 0-415-01678-9
"Focusing on the aesthetics of video, Timeshift tests current semiotic, postmodernist and psychoanalytic approaches in the laboratory of real-life video viewing."
The Practice of Light(1st Edition) A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels (Leonardo Book Series) by SeanCubitt, Roger F. Malina Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02765-6, ISBN: 0-262-02765-8
"Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are our most important explorations of this condition. The history of visual technologies reveals a centuries-long project aimed at controlling light. In this book, Sean Cubitt traces a genealogy of the dominant visual media of the twenty-first century -- digital video, film, and photography -- through a history of ..."
Timeshift on Video Culture by SeanCubitt Hardcover, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-17691-1, ISBN: 1-138-17691-5
Aliens R Us The Other in Science Fiction Cinema (Hardback) by Ziauddin Sardar, SeanCubitt Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2002 by Pluto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-1544-7, ISBN: 0-7453-1544-5
"Kirk. W. Junker. and. Robert. Duffy. As the story goes, Rene Descartes began a
meditation (which ultimately brought him to believe in his own existence through
doubt) by wondering how he could know that everyone else was real. How could
he know that they were all not just part of his world only, like in a dream, a
fictional world that ended when he woke? Generally, of course, we live our lives
without asking this question. And even ..."
Videography Video Media as Art and Culture (Communications and Culture) by SeanCubitt Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1993 by Palgrave ISBN-13: 978-0-333-55556-9, ISBN: 0-333-55556-2
"Digital Light brings together artists, curators, technologists and media archaeologists to study the historical evolution of digital light-based technologies. It provides a critical account of the capacities and limitations of contemporary digital light-based technologies and techniques by tracing their genealogies and comparing them with their predecessor media. Including accounts by prominent artists and professionals, the collection ..."
"In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of "new media" and at the same time write the histories of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the field, focusing on the materials of history -- the materials through which the past is mediated. Drawing on the tools of media archaeology and ..."
Finite Media Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies (a Cultural Politics book) by SeanCubitt Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx) ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6281-4, ISBN: 0-8223-6281-3
"While digital media gives us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In "Finite Media" Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and human toll exacted by mining and the manufacture, use, and disposal of millions of phones, computers, and other devices. The way out is thro ..."
Videography Video Media as Art and Culture by SeanCubitt Paperback, 259 Pages, Published 1993 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-312-10296-8, ISBN: 0-312-10296-8
"Videography is an attempt to discover the conditions under which it is possible to speak, write and teach about the electronic media. It provides a materialist account of video and computer media as they are practised and used today. A theoretical section tests the claims of various theses in art history, media and cultural theory to account for the variety of video practice in the contemporary scene. The remainder of the book is devote ..."
Ecomedia(1st Edition) Key Issues (Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability) by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, SeanCubitt Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-78155-9, ISBN: 1-138-78155-X
"Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and the relationships between med ..."
Ecomedia(1st Edition) Key Issues (Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability) by Stephen Rust, SeanCubitt, Salma Monani Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-78153-5, ISBN: 1-138-78153-3
"Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and ..."
"We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today's information explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images s ..."
"Soft cover. Photographically illustrated French-fold wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Video, film, photographs and drawings by Dryden Goodwin. Essays by Sophie Howarth and Sean Cubitt. Includes a biography, exhibition history and a bibliography. 80 pp., with 21 black-and-white plates and 20 four-color plates and additional illustrations. 8-1/4 x 7-1/8 inches."
"Peter Jackson's epic trilogy, the biggest film event of the 21st century, turned the best-selling book of the 20th century into a popular, critical and financial success all over again. This comprehensive collection draws together twenty-five essays on the making, the meaning and the reception of The Lord of the Rings. There is a section on the business of the 'event film', critical chapters on techniques and meanings ranging from music ..."
"Peter Jackson's epic trilogy, the biggest film event of the 21st century, turned the best-selling book of the 20th century into a popular, critical and financial success all over again. This comprehensive collection draws together twenty-five essays on the making, the meaning and the reception of The Lord of the Rings. There is a section on the business of the 'event film', critical chapters on techniques and meanings ranging from music ..."
Aliens R Us The Other in Science Fiction Cinema by Ziauddin Sardar, SeanCubitt, Pluto Press Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Pluto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-1539-3, ISBN: 0-7453-1539-9
"Aliens R Us explores the global culture of science fiction cinema, and in particular its presentation of contemporary images of the Other. Taking as a starting point the popularity of international forms such as Japanese Manga and Hong Kong sci-fi, in addition to the success of films such as The Matrix and television series such as Deep Space Nine, the contributors examine the science fiction genre as an international, populist form of ..."
Green Light(1st Edition) Toward an Art of Evolution (Leonardo Book Series) by George Gessert, Roger F. Malina, SeanCubitt Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2010 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01414-4, ISBN: 0-262-01414-9
"Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are prized for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward Steichen's hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become ..."