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Impossible Possible Machines
Arguing against the current paradigm of computationalism, the article revisits Alexandre KoyrĂ©âs history of European techno-rationality and 17th-century figures like Descartes and Galileo. Here, one finds the machine emerging at precisely the time and place in history where the gap between mathematical-geometrical idealization and the reality of bodies and experiments first appeared. Historically, the machine is rooted in theatrical mechanics of simulation, illusion, fiction, and deception. Structurally, it appears in between subject and object, the âthinkingâ and the âmechanicalâ substances. With the machine, mathematical science becomes possible because it creates an outside or model to the theoretical inside of European science
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Constructing the invisible - Computer graphics and the end of Optical Media
This media archaeology of early computer graphics tackles the relation between the imaginary and technical media. We focus on the algorithmic procedures and mathematical principles driving 3D computer graphics during the 1970âs and we frame them in a discussion about the end of optical media and a reflection on the current situation in which images, commanded by techno-codes, delineate and structure the dominant code of communication with which we imagine. Even though algorithmic simulations of optical worlds do not represent the end of optical media as Friedrich Kittler once argued, computer graphics can be seen retrospectively as an escalation in the production of invisibility. We introduce Frieder Nakeâs concept of âsubfacesâ to describe digital images as entities that are composed out of visible and invisible processes. The subface constitutes our methodological tool to analyze computer graphics historically, through three early problems of 3D computer graphics. We complement this media archeology of early computer graphics with discussing the dialogue between Kittler and VilĂ©m Flusser on the imaginary or techo-imagination
Action at a Distance
The mediality of transmission and the materiality of communication result today more than ever in "acting at a distance" - an action whose agency lies in a medium. This book provides an overview into this crucial phenomenon, thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial. Three vivid inquiries deal with histories and theories of mediality and materiality
Rendre invisible â Lâinfographie et la fin des MĂ©dias optiques
Lâarticle relit la thĂšse de Kittler selon laquelle lâavĂšnement des mĂ©dias optiques constituerait la fin des beaux-arts Ă partir dâun texte contemporain aux MĂ©dias optiques. Cours berlinois 1999 : « Infographie. Une introduction semi-technique ». Les auteurs interrogent lâidĂ©e selon laquelle les mĂ©dias optiques trouveraient leur fin dans les procĂ©dĂ©s algorithmiques de lâinfographie, et dĂ©veloppent une rĂ©flexion sur la surface de lâimage et ses dessous techniques. Dans un premier temps, ils examinent la sous-face de lâimage Ă partir de trois problĂšmes rencontrĂ©s par lâinfographie Ă ses dĂ©buts. Puis ils explorent les enjeux de lâhistoriographie kittlĂ©rienne des mĂ©dias optiques et de leur fin prĂ©sumĂ©e dans lâinfographie, du point de vue de la philosophie du sujet et de sa disparition. Ces analyses sont lâoccasion dâune discussion autour des rĂ©flexions de VilĂ©m Flusser sur la techno-imagination ainsi que des travaux de lâartiste contemporaine Hito Steyerl sur les techniques dâinvisibilisation
Verhaltensdesign
Ob Neokybernetik, Computer-, Sprach- oder Sound-Experiment, ob Brainstorming, Lernumgebung oder Konferenz, Gruppendynamik oder Umweltschutz â zahlreiche populĂ€re Verfahren der 1960er und 1970er Jahre erzĂ€hlen von medialer und humaner Transformation. Der Band geht der Ă€sthetischen und politischen Genealogie dieser Bildungs-, Erziehungs- und Regierungsprogramme nach, indem er Verhaltenslehren der europĂ€ischen Literaturgeschichte mit medien- und designtheoretischen Diskursen konfrontiert. Dabei erlaubt er auch einen Blick hinter den âșeisernen Vorhangâč aktueller Programme, die unter dem Diktum von KreativitĂ€t, Katastrophe oder KomplexitĂ€t weiterhin bilden, erziehen und regieren.
Mit BeitrÀgen aus Designtheorie, Literatur-, Medien-, Kultur- und Bildwissenschaft
Action at a Distance
The mediality of transmission and the materiality of communication result today more than ever in âacting at a distanceâ â an action whose agency lies in a medium. This book provides an overview into this crucial phenomenon, thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial. Three vivid inquiries deal with histories and theories of mediality and materiality
Friedrich A. Kittler : Esthétique et théorie des médias
On doit Ă Friedrich A. Kittler dâavoir renouvelĂ© lâapproche du sensible et de la pensĂ©e Ă partir dâune interrogation sur leurs conditions mĂ©dia-techniques. Ce numĂ©ro explore les liens inĂ©dits que ce dernier trace entre techniques mĂ©diatiques, sciences humaines, littĂ©rature et arts â et qui se traduisent par lâĂ©laboration dâune thĂ©orie et dâune discipline nouvelles, voire dâune mĂ©taphysique. Lire la suit