Art - Digital

Art is rooted in the present and often anticipates the future, and digital art is no exception. In this groundbreaking book, Alessandra Mattanza, a seasoned journalist and contemporary-art expert, guides readers through the dynamic world of digital art. This book delves into the artworks,...

This book explores the democratization of music in our current era made possible by digital technologies. Music has become ubiquitous and increasingly intertwined with everyday life, rendering previous models of creation, performance, and consumption obsolete. Diffusing Music identifies trajectories between 20th-century innovators and the...

Slapetová's response to her work with the Yali Mek envisions a contemporary art happening between the tribe and CzechiaIn the second book in the Ultra-Super-Natural series, Barbora Slapetová (born 1973) imagines a multimedia historical dialogue between the Yali Mek and Czechia, based on her...

Chronicling a new sound art project on the US-Mexico border, led by the bestselling author of Lost Children Archive and The Story of My TeethThis volume documents a 24-hour, multilayered sound work, led by award-winning Mexican American author Valeria Luiselli. Echoes from the Borderlands...

Game Audio Implementation offers a unique practical approach to learning all about game audio. If you've always wanted to hear your sound or music in a real game then this is the book for you. Each chapter is accompanied by its own game level...

Today the media arts not only address the great themes of our times, they inhabit the very media of which they speak. The contemporary is global, but only because of the media that enable globalisation. Those media are almost nowhere apparent in the mainstream...

The affects, aesthetics, and ethics of voice in the new materialist turn, explored through encounters with creative works in media and the arts. Moved by the Aboriginal understandings of songlines or dreaming tracks, Norie Neumark's Voicetracks seeks to deepen an understanding of voice through...

Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and 1980s From the birth of op art to the dawn of cybernetics, artists have found new ways to engage the senses and play with our perception. Bringing...

This definitive edition collects all of Kilian Eng's otherworldly landscapes and retro-futuristic illustrations in one massive volume, including previously unpublished works. Each dreamlike image immerses the viewer in a unique environment, full of engrossing detail and surreal beauty.Author: Kilian EngISBN-10: 1942801785ISBN-13: 9781942801788Publisher: Floating World...

Choosing pieces from a series called "Google Poems" written during the Obama and Trump presidencies, Terry Wright seeks new ways to produce poetry in this inventive collection. First, Wright creates an original artwork and titles it. The title, now also the title of a...

In the dynamic realm of generative artificial Intelligence (AI), the fusion of human creativity and machine intelligence has created a vibrant ecosystem of collaborative artmaking. However, this transformative process brings forth a myriad of concerns, ranging from ethical considerations and the need for originality...

Theorists and artists from Jack Halberstam to Peter Rehberg consider the fruitful cross-pollination of video, punk, queerness and gender politicsSince the 1970s, the medium of video has been closely associated with subcultural and countercultural movements. Art and music videos in particular have showed great...

Digital fabrication combines virtual and material worlds; transforming thoughts into things, and things into data. It fosters complex and varied communities while enabling the pursuit of unique individual outputs. Current literature on digital fabrication concentrates on its technical and economic potential, with little attention...

This volume offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which "the cinematic" has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century; in the art world, the use of film and...

The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and still image in the latest DSLR cameras to the growing potential of interactive...

The Artwork of 3ichael 7ambert takes you on an expansive journey into the vibrant realm of a multimedia artist who believes that art is a fundamental part of life. Originating from Aurora, Colorado, 3ichael 7ambert utilizes a rich variety of mediums in his creations,...

A record of the artist's nomadic living digital experiment in TokyoIn this interactive video art piece-turned-book, the German digital artist and architect Rebecca Merlic (born 1989) challenges the concept of the private home, taking her own nomadic lifestyle in Tokyo as her catalyst for...

An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT. The discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this...

Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide.Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go...

An updated visual dictionary through the eyes of Google ImagesIn 2014, JBE Books and King Zog members Felix Heyes and Ben West published Google, Volume 1, using the dictionary and its 21,110 words as the basis for a visual compendium of the English language....

The work SEEDS OF THE SOUL is an expression of the love for artistic poetic elaboration in the author's exteriorization, bringing the literary aesthetic with human figures. It is also the impulse of passion, leaning on ardent verses of love. SEEDS OF THE SOUL...

Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection managers, information specialists, curators and conservators. This emphasis on practicalities and implementation, while undeniably important, has often...

Discover the fascinating world of digital shoes in this comprehensive guide. From the evolution of footwear technology to the future of digital shoes, explore the anatomy, design, and manufacturing processes behind these innovative creations. Dive into the various applications of digital shoes in athletics,...

The first art collection by Entei Ryu, the concept artist who is active in the gaming and video industries!Entei Ryu is a creator who makes full use of 2D and 3D media, from digital painting to sculpture, 3D printing and more. This book is...

In the dynamic realm of generative artificial Intelligence (AI), the fusion of human creativity and machine intelligence has created a vibrant ecosystem of collaborative artmaking. However, this transformative process brings forth a myriad of concerns, ranging from ethical considerations and the need for originality...

This important new work focuses on the pioneers in machinima, considered to be the grassroots and beginnings of virtual production. Machinima's impacts are identified by the community, supplemented by Harwood and Grussi's research and experience over a period of 25 years - from game,...

Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide.Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go...

A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopher When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today,...

They don't teach this stuff in schoolBecome a successful designer by uncovering everything they left off the syllabus.Lots of UX Designers think all they need to know is how to use Figma. Unfortunately, there is a lot more to being a solid UX designer...

A comprehensive monograph chronicling the phenomenal rise of CryptoPunks - one of the world's first and most sought-after crypto collectibles and trailblazer for digital art and web3 culture.CryptoPunks: Free to Claim explores the meteoric rise of a pre-eminent NFT collectible: what began as an...

This mystical book explores the otherworldly art of tarot cards, interpreted by a selection of talented professional artists. Modern tarot enthusiasts come from a variety of backgrounds and cultures around the world, and artists in particular have become fascinated by the mythical imagery of...

Thermostats programmed with AI text read as existential, oracular responses to a dramatically changing environmentIn response to the titular question, American artist Cooper Jacoby (born 1989) programs thermostats inserted into sculptures with continuously evolving text generated by AI. The tone of the narrative changes...

What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, circulation and cultural production in the digital age are more complex and entangled than ever before. It is especially...

The figurehead of New German Cinema meditates on the next leap forward in visual aestheticsIn The Dragonfly's Eye, author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge (born 1932) tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a filmmaker,...

We are currently riders of the information storm. AI fascinates us, images mesmerize us, data defines us, algorithms remember us, news bombards us, devices connect us, isolation saddens us. Deeply embedded in digital technology, we are the very first inhabitants of life in the...

Photography has visualized international relations and conflicts from the midnineteenth century onwards and continues to be an important medium in framing the worlds of distant, suffering others. Although photojournalism has been challenged in recent decades, claims that it is dead are premature. The Violence...

Lets you experience many of the teaching techniques of the golden era of Disney and Warner Brothers studios and beyond all from the comfort of your own home or studio. This title features Animation Master Class that is designed to cover the core principles...

Create compelling, original characters using archetypes and design elements such as shadows and line with the tips and techniques found in this image-packed book. Bryan Tillman bridges the gap between the technique of drawing characters and the theory of good character design by using...

An argument that video is not merely an intermediate stage between analog and digital but a medium in its own right; traces the theoretical genealogy of video and examines the different concepts of video seen in works by Vito Acconci, Ulrike Rosenbach, Steina and...

An essential primer on the history of Photoshop and other tools of digital image manipulation, from the 1970s through to the current dayThis timely volume, Digital Witness, examines the impact of Photoshop and other tools of digital manipulation, tracing simultaneous developments in photography, graphic...

We live in a fast-paced digital world, and one thing is obvious--algorithms and data make the world go round, and have certainly had a transformative impact in the realm of design. From cutting-edge interactive installations that engage the senses to print products that challenge...

An illustration collection that compresses the worlds you admire and depicts them as miniature worlds!Fantasy worlds unfold all around within small spaces like gardens. This is a collection that introduces 26 illustrators from Japan and overseas and the illustrations they draw that are brimming...

As the symbiotic relationship between human and machine unfolds, robotic vision facilitates a reshaping and reconstitution of our perception of the world. This edited collection explores ways in which this is taking place and the implictions for these new ways of seeing ethically, politically,...

Strap in for a raucous ride through the ever-evolving history of Bitcoin. Replete with details guaranteed to shock and inspire, Crypto historian Ben Brauser and Cheyne Mackie's account of the genesis and history of cryptocurrency is a captivating journey through the basics of the...

Floral nymphs: A coloring book: Time to relax with these intricate designs of floral nymphs. Discover a range of new flowers and plants through artistic renditions ready to be colored. These 35+ nymphs are paired up with a specific plant ranging from wild roses...

Toeing the line between mass media and contemporary art, Sanborn's videos set the standard for experimental pop culture film John Sanborn (born 1954) became one of the most prominent protagonists of the American video art scene in the 1970s and 1980s. This monograph documents...

This new, image-led history of global digital art from the 1960s to the present day draws on the V&A's rich collection while linking the digital art scene to wider art and design histories, and to their social, political, and technological contexts. Decade-by-decade essays by...

An English/French bilingual volume that traces the enduring legacy of geometric abstraction through the last six decades of electronic art and culture.One of the most popular artistic styles of the twentieth century, Op art transformed European geometric abstraction into a global phenomenon in the...

Aline Guillermet uncovers Gerhard Richter's appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist's well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting. Through a study of Richter's portraits, history paintings, landscapes and ornamental abstractions, Guillermet...

A new narrative series of digital paintings set against the backdrop of New York City in 2001Reflecting the innovative tools employed in their production, the iconic paintings of New York-based Avery Singer (born 1987) are complex interpretations of contemporary social realities and technologies. The...