Tag: design
-
Theory of the Image is now available on audiobook
We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for…
-
What is Generative Art?
Art by Gwendal Tsang We live in the age of the digital image not only because of its powerful hybridity and power to order material reality but also because of its powerful pedesis, interactivity, and power to disorder reality—to create new kinesthetic processes. The beauty of contemporary generative art lies not in its “random” number…
-
The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail (transcript)
B.A. Gonczarek I’m here with Thomas Nail, the Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of recently published book Theory of the Image, welcome Thomas. I must admit I was really looking forward to our discussion. When preparing to our conversation I did my research online and I was taken by…
-
The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail
The nature of digital image A conversation between Thomas Nail, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and the author of the recently published book “Theory of the Image,” and B.A. Gonczarek, your host. A philosopher’s perspective on the nature of digital images, their material roots, and various consequences which escape…
-
Climate, Capitalism, Control (Video by Ian Alan Paul)
Watch it here. The work aims to diagram the conjunctive power of planetary-scale computation, commodification, and climate change, and begins with the following voice-over: “Dispersed across the surface of Earth, computer clusters electronically hum in vast air-conditioned rooms. One models sea level rises, precipitation rates, temperature increases, and property values in coastal metropolises over the…
-
Theory of the Image (explained)
Bartosz Gonczarek at “Everything Explained” has put together a wonderful visual whiteboard of great quotes from Theory of the Image that I think hit some very important summary highlights from the book, especially Part III on the digital image. View it here.
-
Theory of the Image (OUP, 2019) OUT NOW!
The book is now available from Amazon and shortly with OUP (30% off code: AAFLYG6) Read the introduction here. Read the Conclusion below. The Mobile Image We live in the age of the mobile image. Today, more than ever before, we are surrounded by hybrid images of all kinds that circulate freely and mix with contemporary images. This incredible…
-
The Birth of Nomos, Thanos Zartaloudis (2018)
This book looks absolutely essential. My only resource on this important term for the last decade has been Emmanuel Laroche, Histoire de la racine nem- en grec ancien (nemō, nemesis, nomos, nomizō) (1949). Delves into the history of the ancient Greek word nomos (and related words) to reveal the interdisciplinary depth of this term beyond its…
-
Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity, ed Maria Voyatzaki (2018)
This is looks like a great collection, but the hardback price is $80! Maps materiality’s importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich…
-
Material Ecology: Neri Oxman’s Generative Design
Oxman’s design takes seriously the ecology and movement of matter. Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering and synthetic biology, her lab is pioneering a new age of symbiosis…
The Philosophy of Movement 