Human Perception and Digital Information Technologies, livre ebook

Brings the humanities and social sciences into conversation to explore the emerging human-machine computational society.

Features contributions from distinguished scholars including N. Katherine Hayles and Mark B. N. Hansen

Computational media govern our experiences by externalizing our knowledge and memories, mining data from our behaviour to influence our decision-making, and creating emotionally rewarding and sensory pleasures. But does that mean human perception is becoming a product of human-machine symbiosis in this new media ecology?

This ground-breaking collection explores the ways in which digital information technologies form and influence human perception and experience. Examining the relationship between technological reductionism and the body, it takes on board discursive perspectives from the humanities and brings digital media, affect, and body studies into conversation with one another.

Written by pioneering authors in the field, this book expands our understanding of human perception, animation, technology, and the body.

Introduction: Human Perception and Digital Information Technologies – Tomoko Tamari

Part 1. Animation and Consciousness

1. Pastures New: Atmospheres, Mud, and Moods – Esther Leslie

2. The Neurodynamics of Technically Mediated Motion: Perceptual vs. Conceptual Animation in Artworks of Nam June Paik and Bill Viola – N. Katherine Hayles

3. Moving Images and Human Perception: Affect in Hand-Drawn Animation and Computer-Generated Imagery – Tomoko Tamari

4. New Punctums, Proto-Perceptions, and Animated Entanglements – Tony D. Sampson

Part 2. Affective Experience and Expression

5. On Pixar’s Marvellous Astonishment: When Synthetic Bodies Meet Photorealistic Worlds – Eric S. Jenkins

6. Player and Avatar in Motion: Affective Encounters – Daniela Bruns

Part 3. Data Visualization: Space and Time

7. Animation, Data, and the Plasticity of the Real: From the Military Survey of Scotland to Synthetic Training Environments – Pasi Väliaho

8. Chronoclasm: Real-Time Data Animation – Sean Cubitt

Part 4. Image Formation and Embodiment

9. Deepfake Face-Swap Animations and Affect – Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen

10. Deepfake Reality, Societies for Technical Feeling, and the Phenomenotechnics of Animation – Mark B.N. Hansen