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Atlas of Fantastic Infrastructures: An Intimate Look at Media Architecture
Mihye An
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Paperback. Deals with media architecture and digital infrastructure. The author examines buildings and projects by Toyo Ito, Werner Sobek, Philippe Rahm, Usman Haque, Electroland, Troika, NOX and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Ben Rubin, and Olafur Eliasson. Editor(s): Hovestadt, Ludger; Buhlmann, Vera. Series: Applied Virtuality Book Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, 160 black & white illustrations, 160 schw.-w. Abb. BIC Classification: AMC; TNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 191 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
The Atlas of Fantastic infrastructures deals with the characterization of architecture, media and digital infrastructure. In concrete terms, it deals with the materiality of buildings and the intangibility of data. While technical or functional studies often tend to "flatten" the multiplex phenomena, the author speculatively propose four abstract prisms: 1) AFFAIR WITH PHANTOMS – who do we want to meet in a digitally mediated space, and what kind of conversation/activity will we have?; 2) PARA-DESIRE – where do our surreal desires live, and what are their strategies?; 3) MEDIATED SPACE CATALOGUE – what kinds of data, information, things, spaces and ... Read more
The Atlas of Fantastic infrastructures deals with the characterization of architecture, media and digital infrastructure. In concrete terms, it deals with the materiality of buildings and the intangibility of data. While technical or functional studies often tend to "flatten" the multiplex phenomena, the author speculatively propose four abstract prisms: 1) AFFAIR WITH PHANTOMS – who do we want to meet in a digitally mediated space, and what kind of conversation/activity will we have?; 2) PARA-DESIRE – where do our surreal desires live, and what are their strategies?; 3) MEDIATED SPACE CATALOGUE – what kinds of data, information, things, spaces and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Birkhauser
Condition
New
Series
Applied Virtuality Book Series
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
, Switzerland
ISBN
9783035606287
SKU
V9783035606287
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About Mihye An
Mihye An, designer and media theoretician; resercher at the CAAD Department of the ETH Zurich.
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