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Finite Media(Reprint)
Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies (a Cultural Politics book)
by Sean Cubitt
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 ..."

The Language of New Media Lev Manovich(Reprint)
by Lev Manovich, Sean Cubitt, Roger F. Malina, Lev Thackara
Paperback, 354 Pages, Published 2001 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-63255-3, ISBN: 0-262-63255-1

"In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the v ..."

Walking and Mapping(Reprint)
Artists as Cartographers (Leonardo Book Series)
by Karen O'rourke, Sean Cubitt, Roger F. Malina
Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2016 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52895-5, ISBN: 0-262-52895-9

"An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS.From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again and again to the walking motif. Today, the convergence of global networks, online databases, and new tools for mobile mapping coincides with a resurgence of interest in ..."

Digital Performance(Reprint)
A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation (Leonardo Book Series)
by Steve Dixon, Sean Cubitt, Roger F. Malina
Paperback, 832 Pages, Published 2015 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52752-1, ISBN: 0-262-52752-9

"The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts.The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installa ..."

Rethinking Curating(Reprint)
Art after New Media (Leonardo Book Series)
by Beryl Graham, Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz, Sean Cubitt
Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2015 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52842-9, ISBN: 0-262-52842-8

"As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art -- but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation and is often about process rather than objects. New media artworks are difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology and present the curator wi ..."

The Hidden Sense(Reprint)
Synesthesia in Art and Science (Leonardo Book Series)
by Cretien Van Campen, Sean Cubitt, Roger F. Malina
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2010 by The Mit Press
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51407-1, ISBN: 0-262-51407-9

"What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or more senses cooperate in perception. Once dismissed as imagination or delusion, metaphor or drug-induced hallucination, the experience of synesthesia has now been documented by sca ..."

Information Arts(Reprint)
Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology (Leonardo Book Series)
by Stephen Wilson, Sean Cubitt, Roger F. Malina
Paperback, 970 Pages, Published 2003 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-73158-4, ISBN: 0-262-73158-4

"A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology--not just to adopt the vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities. Indeed, proposes Stephen Wilson, the role of the artist is not only to interpret and to spread scientific knowledge, but to be an active partner in determining the direction of research. Years ..."