Vital media : making, design, and expression for humans and other materials

A proposal for a new media design to balance the contributions of humans and materials in the world they share. How can media design support a balance between our needs for self-expression and the material needs of the world we are part of? What criteria define a sustainable media ecology? In Vital...

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1. Verfasser: Nitsche, Michael
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge MIT Press 2022
The MIT Press
Ausgabe:1
Schriftenreihe:The MIT Press
Schlagworte:
craft
Cultural and media studies
design
Design > Human factors
digital folk
digital media
digital performance
HCI
History of art
hybrid craft
Impact of science and technology on society
interaction design
JBCT3 Media studies: advertising and society
material culture
Mathematics and Science
media design
Media studies
new materialism
Postmodernism
Science: general issues
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
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Styles (P)
Sustainable design
The Arts
The Arts: treatments and subjects
ISBN:026254458X, 9780262544580, 026237207X, 9780262372077, 0262372061, 9780262372060
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Zusammenfassung:A proposal for a new media design to balance the contributions of humans and materials in the world they share. How can media design support a balance between our needs for self-expression and the material needs of the world we are part of? What criteria define a sustainable media ecology? In Vital Media, Michael Nitsche argues that the current human-centric view is not sustainable and that media are best viewed as dynamic networks where cognitive and noncognitive participants co-create. What we need, according to Nitsche, is a media design that balances the needs of all partners involved: vital media. Tracing this ideal through two domains of expression and making, performance and craft, Nitsche calls on us to embrace material coexistence and to design for self-expression as well as material evolution. We must recognize that the living body and its dependencies on the world around it are at the heart of what media are about. Vital media exist to not only help individuals fulfill their potential through expression but to also realize the agencies of materials in the equally active surrounding world. Throughout the book, Nitsche interweaves theory with close readings of actual artifacts that encompass predigital, nondigital, and hybrid examples. Nitsche's approach counters the current tendency to pit the virtual media world against the reality in which we live.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index
ISBN:026254458X
9780262544580
026237207X
9780262372077
0262372061
9780262372060
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/13945.001.0001