Image Objects
By Jacob Gaboury
By Jacob Gaboury
By Jacob Gaboury
By Jacob Gaboury
Category: Science & Technology
Category: Science & Technology
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$35.00
Aug 03, 2021 | ISBN 9780262045032
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Aug 03, 2021 | ISBN 9780262361804
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Praise
“Remarkably elegant… Weav[es] together both biography and technical history, archival research and media theory.”
—Film Quarterly
“A welcome addition to other recent texts in the growing canon of archaeological approaches to computer hardware and software.”
—Andrew Reinhard, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
“A unique interrogation of the contemporary optical regime, structured as it is by black boxes and screens.”
—Michael Eby, ArtForum
Table Of Contents
I Culling Vision: Hidden Surface Algorithms and the Problem of Visibility
II Random Access Images: Interfacing Memory and the History of the Computer Screen
III Model Objects: The Utah Teapot as Standard and Icon
IV Object Paradigms: On the Origins of Object Orientation
V Procedure Crystalized: The Graphics Processing Unit and the Rise of Computer Graphics
Coda: After Objects
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