Digital Light
<p>Light symbolises the highest good, it enables all visual art, and today it lies at the heart of billion-dollar industries. The control of light forms the foundation of contemporary vision. <em>Digital Light</em> brings together artists, curators, technologists and media archaeologists to study the historical evolution of digital light-based technologies. <em>Digital Light</em> 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. As digital light remediates multiple historical forms (photography, print, film, video, projection, paint), the collection draws from all of these histories, connecting them to the digital present and placing them in dialogue with one another…</p>
Editors: Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer, Nathaniel Tkacz
Contributors: Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer, Nathaniel Tkacz, Alvy Ray Smith, Terry Flaxton, Stephen Jones, Carolyn L. Kane, Scott McQuire, Cathryn Vasseleu, Christiane Paul, Darren Tofts, Jon Ippolito
Series Editor: Andrew Murphie
Part of: Open Humanities Press
ISBN: 9781785420009