Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image by Dvořák, Tomás
Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image by Dvořák, Tomás

Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image

These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work....
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Author: Tomás Dvořák
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Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image by Dvořák, Tomás

Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image

$479.98
Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image by Dvořák, Tomás

Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image

$479.98
Author: Tomás Dvořák
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography.

Author: Tomás Dvořák
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 01/26/2021
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781474478823

About the Author

Tomás Dvořák is Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography at FAMU in Prague. He studied philosophy, art history, media studies and sociology at Charles University in Prague and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research focuses on philosophy and history of media and philosophy and history of science, and the interrelations between these fields, especially media archaeology of science and knowledge. He has authored or co-authored a number of books in Czech: Epistemology of (New) Media(NAMU 2018), Photography, Sculpture, Object(NAMU 2017), Temporality of (New) Media (NAMU 2016), Contemporary Approaches in Historical Epistemology (Filosofia 2013), Chapters from the History and Theory of Media (AVU 2010), and Waste Management: Texts, Images and Sounds of Recent History (Filosofia 2009).

Jussi Parikka is Professor of Technological Culture and Aesthetics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Visiting Professor at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague. He is the author of Digital Contagions (2007, 2nd. Edition 2016), Insect Media (2010, also the winner of the SCMS Anne Friedberg book award for innovative scholarship), What is Media Archaeology (2012) and A Geology of Media (2015). He is the co-editor of books such as Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications (2010, with Erkki Huhtamo) and Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048 (2015, with Joasia Krysa) among many others. In addition, he was a co-editor of the book Across and Beyond: a transmediale Reader on Postdigital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions (2016). Parikka is the research director for the project Operative Images (2019-2023), funded by Czech Science Academy.


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