Art, Media Design, and Postproduction

7Visual Aurality

Image and Sound as Data

Premise: This chapter focuses on the intertextual relationship of image, sound, and data as part of the creative process in art and media design.

Current audiovisual experience is in part defined by the aspiration for autonomy by the visual arts as a field of specialization, which was informed by cultural and economic variables during the nineteenth century. What did it mean to practice art during such a time? How can art be defined as a specialized field? The visual arts looked to music to deal with these and other relevant questions, in order to develop its own autonomous position.¹ Music provided a new way to approach visual media, particularly painting. Instrumental music, or what is known today ...