
Pre-Owned Softimage : Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image (Paperback)
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- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- Publication dateSeptember, 2015
- Pages154
- EditionStandard Edition
- PublisherIntellect (UK)
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The image is no longer a passive and fixed representational form. It is active and multi-platform, endowed with a signaletic temporality that is not only the result of digital screening (and compression), but also of transfer across digital networks. It 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. The image, today, is not only part of a programme, but it contains its own ‘operation code’: it is a programme in itself. It can no longer be separated from the software; it has become a softimage.
Based on these hypotheses, Soft Image proposes to take its readers on a journey that gradually undoes the rigidity of the photographic image. Via six concise chapters, each based on a careful case study of contemporary artworks by Nancy Davenport, David Claerbout, and Thomas Ruff, as well as of ubiquitous yet under-theorized digital applications such as the Ken Burns Effect and Google Street View, the authors offer an original and timely theorization that promises to spark debate within the evolving fields of image studies and software studies.
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