Main entry:

Mihye, An.

Title & Author:

Atlas of fantastic infrastructures : an intimate look at media architecture / Mihye An.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2016]
©2016

Description:

392 pages : illustrations, plans ; 19 cm.

Series:

Applied virtuality book series, 2196-3118 ; vol. IX

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword : Mastering the generic / Ludger Hovestadt -- Atlas I. Affair with phantoms : Accepting obscurity -- Accepting affection -- Having fictitious affairs : Scheherazade ; Dracula ; Orlando ; The last leaf ; Morel's machine ; God -- Atlas II. Para-desire : Infrastructure of para-functionality -- Para-desire : Infra-natural ; Infra-ordinary ; Infra-speculative ; Atlas III. Mediated space catalogue : 1001 days on earth : At home ; Outside ; Something special -- Atlas IV. Gifts of the gardens : A field trip to gardens -- Fourfold analysis and speculation : Baroque ; English ; Zen ; Monastic ; Folly.

Summary:

Fantastic infrastructures' deals with media architecture and digital infrastructure. In concrete terms, with the relationship between different dimensions as well as the materiality of buildings and the intangibility of data. Since technical and functional studies have not yet yielded any concrete findings, the author speculatively pursues four issues: 1. An affair with phantoms: who do we want to meet in digital space, what kind of communication / interaction can potentially result? 2. Para-wishes: where can we live out our surreal wishes and what strategies do they pursue? 3. A catalog of a variety of spaces: what kind of data, information, things, spaces, and places are available in the world and how do our actions serve to combine them? 4. Garden presents: how can an idea become reality, in which ways do thoughts become physical reality?

ISBN:

9783035606287 (pbk.)
3035606285 (pbk.)
9783035606386 (print + online)
9783035606379 (PFD : online)
9783035606478 (ePub ebook)

Subject:

Media architecture.
Architecture Data processing.
Digital media.
Façades médiatiques.
Ordinateurs Architecture.
Médias numériques.
Architecture and Planning.

Added entries:

Applied virtuality book series ; vol. IX.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292738
Call No.: BIB 237162
Status: Available