PIOTR MARECKI, YERZMYEY, AND ROBERT “HELLBOY” STRAKA
This book analyzes the 8-bit personal computer ZX Spectrum, produced by the British company Sinclair Research since 1982. It pays special attention to how the computer was used for creative purposes, considering the platform from the perspective of the community that flocked around it. It seeks to decenter digital media, discovering digital phenomena from beyond the hegemonic center, by focusing on the acquisition and creative use of the computer in Eastern and Central Europe. PIOTR MARECKI
is the president of Korporacja Ha!art
Foundation, which supports contemporary, innovative, experimental art and culture; assistant professor in the Institute of Culture at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków; and lecturer at the Film School in Łódź. is a musician, graphic artist, photographer, and
writer whose works have been presented around the world. He is the codirector of a creative computing lab at the Jagiellonian University. ROBERT "HELLBOY" STRAKA
is a z80 & x86 programmer,
mathematician, and lecturer at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków.
The Aesthetics of Post-Digital Imaging
Between Camera Traps and Virtual Reality ANNA NACHER
This book creatively maps the recent developments in the field of post-digital imaging, spanning the broad spectrum of visual production: from artistic forms of techno-ecological practice to “operational images” of ecological monitoring to some examples of virtual reality. Addressing the condition of post-digitality as the consequence of the fact that computing technologies have become inseparable from the embodied practices of everyday life, it demonstrates how imaging born among physical space, computing technology, and the activity of its users establishes hybrid ontological coalitions. The analyses offered in the book cover the novelty of visual forms born between physical reality and networked digital media: new media art, environmental protection, and ecological research, as well as some examples of virtual reality. ANNA NACHER
is associate professor at the Institute for
Audiovisual Arts, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
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