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I have a faculty member who is
looking for a good book for her students on the subject of "art and
technology."
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I think the problem Kate's client may have is finding
*critical* approaches to the question. Most that I've come
across are from evangelists for the new technology - eg
Art of the electronic age, by Frank Popper
Designing the future, by Robin Baker
The reconfigured eye, by William J Mitchell, is rather
more critical, but still not an equivalent to the Birketts
book, I feel. Its focus is rather narrower than Kate is
looking for - it looks at how new technologies affect
our ideas of "visual truth".
John.
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John McKay
Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication
Walden Road, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5SN, UK
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