Sounding New Media examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of new media theory and practice; including new technologies and performance art events; with particular emphasis on sound; embodiment; art; and technological interactions. Frances Dyson takes an historical approach; focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics; imaging; and digital and computer processing-and analyzing the work of such artists as John Cage; Edgard Varegrave;se; Antonin Artaud; and Char Davies. She utilizes sounds intangibility to study ideas about embodiment (or its lack) in art and technology as well as fears about technology and the so-called "post-human." Dyson argues that the concept of "immersion" has become a path leading away from aesthetic questions about meaning and toward questions about embodiment and the physical. The result is an insightful journey through the new technologies derived from electronics; imaging; and digital and computer processing; toward the creation of an aesthetic and philosophical framework for considering the least material element of an artwork; sound.
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