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Art, Media Design, and Postproduction
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Art, Media Design, and Postproduction

by Eduardo Navas
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
226 pages
6h 49m
English
Routledge
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4Vectorial Pixels

Visual Aesthetics of Binary Code

Premise: This chapter examines indexicality and selectivity in direct relation to pixels and vectors as creative variables in photographs and drawings. It evaluates how visual forms have been redefined by computing in art and media design.

Figure 4.1 Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) (1993). Digital composite. Transparency on lightbox, 2500 × 3970 × 340 mm.

Figure 4.1 Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) (1993). Digital composite. Transparency on lightbox, 2500 × 3970 × 340 mm.

Indexicality and selectivity are cultural variables that enable people to relate to photos and drawings as distinct forms of creativity and communication defined by an implicit, yet paradoxically elusive, personal understanding ...

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ISBN: 9781315453231