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Medosch: The history of media as told by Manovich appears to contain only unbroken continuity.I show that these principles can already be found at work in older cultural forms and media technologies such as cinema, and therefore they are by themselves are not sufficient to distinguish new media from the old. In the section, What New Media is Not, I address other principles which are often attributed to new media. This list reduces all principles of new media to five: numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability and cultural transcoding. Rather than focusing on familiar categories such as interactivity or hypermedia, I suggest a different list. In Principles of New Media I look at the key consequences of this new status of media. The result is new media: graphics, moving images, sounds, shapes, spaces and text which become computable, i.e. The synthesis of these two histories? The translation of all existing media into numerical data accessible for computers. In parallel, we witness the rise of modern media technologies which allow the storage of images, image sequences, sounds and text using different material forms: a photographic plate, a film stock, a gramophone record, etc. Eventually, in the middle of the twentieth century, a modern digital computer is developed to perform calculations on numerical data more efficiently it takes over from numerous mechanical tabulators and calculators already widely employed by companies and governments since the turn of the century.
Both begin in the 1830's with Babbage's Analytical Engine and Daguerre's daguerreotype. In section Media and Computation I show that new media represents a convergence of two separate historical trajectories: computing and media technologies. Lev Manovich in The Language of New Media moves from the materiality of new media to their forms. Wilson integrates art and techno-scientific research with critical theory into "art as research".Īlso: Boundary_objects_between_arthistory,_history_of_technology,_and_sociology#Stephen_Wilson.2C_Information_Arts_.282003.29 Manovich: New Media (2001) Stephen Wilson in his Information Arts offers classification of the works according to technologies used (counting 80+ categories). Theories and definitions of media art Wilson: Information Arts (2003)