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- ISBN 9781783205035
- Weight: 263g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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With today’s digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. It no longer functions as a political and iconic representation, but plays a vital role in synchronic data-to-data relationships. It is not only part of a program, but it contains its own operating code: the image is a program in itself. Softimage aims to account for that new reality, taking readers on a journey that gradually undoes our unthinking reliance on the apparent solidity of the photographic image and building in its place an original and timely theorization of the digital image in all its complexity, one that promises to spark debate within the evolving fields of image studies and software studies.
INGRID HOELZL is Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of a book on the theory of the photographic self-portrait (Der Autoporträtistische Pakt, 2008) and has published widely on the state of the image in contemporary art and digital culture.
RÉMI MARIE is an independent writer who lives and works in Digne-les-Bains, France, and Hong Kong.
