Main entry:

Hoelzl, Ingrid, author.

Title & Author:

Softimage : towards a new theory of the digital image / Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie.

Publication:

Bristol, UK : Intellect Books, 2015.
©2015

Description:

xiv, 143 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143).
Introduction -- Moving stills (the Ken Burns effect) -- Expanded photography (The desire for endlessness) -- The photographic now (from sign to signal) -- In the matrix (from geometry to algorithm) -- The operative image (Google street view: the world as database) -- In the urban data-space (the image as moment of network access) -- Conclusion: Softimage.

Summary:

With today's digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. It no longer functions as a political and iconic representation, but plays a vital role in synchronic data-to-data relationships. It is not only part of a programme, but it contains its own 'operating code': it is a programme in itself. Softimage aims to account for that new reality, taking readers on a journey that gradually undoes our unthinking reliance on the apparent solidity of the photographic image and building in its place an original and timely theorization of the digital image in all its complexity, one that promises to spark debate within the evolving fields of image studies and software studies.--Publisher website.

ISBN:

9781783205035 (pbk.)
1783205032 (pbk.)
(PDF)
9781783205042
(ePub)
9781783205059

Subject:

Digital images Philosophy.
Computer graphics Philosophy.
Photography Digital techniques.
Images numériques Philosophie.
Infographie Philosophie.
Photographie numérique.
Computers and IT.
Bilder teori, filosofi.
Datorgrafik teori, filosofi.
Digital fotografi.

Added entries:

Marie, Rémi, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291163
Call No.: BIB 234572
Status: Available