Abstracting Reality: Art, Communication, and Cognition in the Digital Age

by Mark J.P. Wolf

Abstracting Reality considers the relationship between digital technology and culture and their mutual influences on each other. The book begins with an examination of how everyday life became quantized over time, setting the stage for digital technology, which developed out of communication, machine control, and calculating machines. From there the book explores how digital technology changed the nature of art, inherent culture biases in digitization,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761816682
• ISBN13: 9780761816683
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"