Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision

353 Pages·2022·24.971 MB·English

by  Toija Cinque (editor), Jordan Beth Vincent (editor)

Materializing

Digital Futures
ii
Materializing

Digital Futures
Touch, Movement, Sound
and Vision
Edited by
Toija Cinque and
Jordan Beth Vincent
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Names: Cinque, Toija, editor. | Vincent, Jordan Beth, editor.
Title: Materializing digital futures : touch, movement, sound and vision /
edited by Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent.
Description: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Offers a way to re-evaluate deeply
evocative futures in which humans and intelligent systems increasingly engage in
symbiotically connected experiences via continuous flows of data and
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Subjects: LCSH: Digital media–Social aspects. |
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To my family

You are the constant reminder of gentleness and beauty
Marc, Surija and Oliver, my joy and inspiration
For all the days I owe you
– Toija
Thanks to my family for their love and support
Special thanks to my husband, Paul,
and my children, Alice and Zach
– Jordan
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CONTENTS

List of Figures x
List of Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction: Screen media, artefacts and
intra-communication 1
Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent
Section One Socio-aesthetics of sound and sight
7
1 Virtual reality, the chiasm and the doubled body 11
Angela Ndalianis
2 Sensing Sims: Atmospheres, aesthetics and the cyborg
player 25
Merlin Seller
3 Embodied audiovisual experience: The role of sound in
contemporary screen and digital media 45
Darrin Verhagen and Ben Byrne
4 Volumetric Black: Post-cinematic Blackness 61
Triton Mobley
viii CONTENTS
Section Two Meaning-making in the
data-driven era
81
5 Quantified me: Curatorial lives and the pixelated spectre
of self 87
Toija Cinque
6 Virtual reality and kinaesthetic connection: Qualities of
‘being there’ 107
Kim Vincs
7 Feminist memes: Digital communities, identity
performance and resistance from the shadows 123
Shana MacDonald and Brianna I. Wiens
8 The infinite portrait: A case of post-human authorship 141
Andrew McIntyre
Section Three Touch, body, metal, screen
163
9 First encounters with robots through embodied
observation, imagined narrative and choreography 169
Amy LaViers
10 Physical digitality: Making reality visible through
multimodal digital affordances for human perception 187
Luke Heemsbergen, Greg Bowtell and Jordan Beth Vincent
11 A true feel: Re-embodying the touch sense in the digital
fashion experience 205
Michela Ornati
12 What robots learn from performative relationships and
interactive performance 223
Steph Hutchison and John McCormick
CONTENTS ix
Section Four Digital futures
243
13 Smart home: Smart devices and the everyday experiences
of the home 249
Xi Cui
14 Affect and the digitalization of war 269
John MacWillie
15 Automation is a myth 289
Luke Munn
16 A triadic typology of material mediation: Ontology,
intentionality and vitalism 305
Renata Lemos Morais
Index 321