Image Objects
An Archaeology of Computer Graphics
$102.95
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2021
Summary
Most of us think of computer graphics as a relatively recent invention, enabling the spectacular visual effects and lifelike simulations we see in current films, television shows, and digital games. In fact, computer graphics have been around as long as the modern computer itself, and played a fundamental role in the development of our contemporary culture of computing.
In Image Objects, Jacob Gaboury offers a prehistory of computer graphics through an examination of five tec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262045032 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262045036 |
| Author: | Jacob Gaboury |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Remarkably elegant… Weav[es] together both biography and technical history, archival research and media theory.”
—Film Quarterly
“A welcome addition to other recent texts in the growing canon of archaeological approaches to computer hardware and software.”
—Andrew Reinhard, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
“A unique interrogation of the contemporary optical regime, structured as it is by black boxes and screens.”
—Michael Eby, ArtForum
About The Author
Jacob Gaboury
Jacob Gaboury is Assistant Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley.
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