Yanai Toister

Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces two conceptual models of photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. The Turin Shroud inspires a discussion on photography's frequently acclaimed 'ontological privilege', which has conditioned an understanding of photography as a sui generis breed of images wherein pictorial representation is coextensive with human vision. This is then contrasted with a discussion of the universal Turing machine, which integrates photography into a framework of media philosophy and algorithmic art. Here, photography becomes more than just the present-day sum of its depiction traditions, devices and dissemination networks. Rather, it is archetypical of multiple systems of abstraction and classification, and various other symbolic processes of transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789381580
• Artikelnr.: 59234567

Autorenporträt

Yanai Toister is an associate professor at Tampere University, Finland.

Contact: Tampere University, Kalevantie 4, 33100 Tampere, Finland.