Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond the Buttons

ISBN-13: 9788779345041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 294 str.

Christian Ulrik

Opis

Computer interfaces have become ubiquitous; they are on our city walls, on our laps and tables and in our pockets, simultaneously demanding our attention and computing quietly in the background, turning action into inter-action, and mediating our experience of and relations to the social and environmental. Interface Criticism shows how art and aesthetics respond to this, and the book ultimately develops interface aesthetics as an appropriate paradigm for a critical discussion of the computer. With contributions from leading researchers within the field, the book covers a wide range of aesthetic expressions - including urban screens, wearable interfaces, performances, games, net-art, software art, and sound art, and it discusses how new cultures evolve around e.g., open source or live coding.