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Materializing Digital Futures ii Materializing Digital Futures Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision Edited by Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in the United States of America 2022 Volume Editor’s part of the Work © Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent, 2022 Each chapter © of Contributors (see p. xii) For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. xvii constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover image: Scanner Sombre (2017) by Introversion Software. © Mark Morris from Introversion Software All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Cinque, Toija, editor. | Vincent, Jordan Beth, editor. Title: Materializing digital futures : touch, movement, sound and vision / edited by Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent. Description: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Offers a way to re-evaluate deeply evocative futures in which humans and intelligent systems increasingly engage in symbiotically connected experiences via continuous flows of data and information exchanges”– Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2021043558 (print) | LCCN 2021043559 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501361258 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501388088 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501361265 (epub) | ISBN 9781501361272 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501361289 (ebook other) Subjects: LCSH: Digital media–Social aspects. | Multimedia communications–Social aspects. | Human-computer interaction. Classification: LCC HM851 .M379 2022 (print) | LCC HM851 (ebook) | DDC 302.23/1–dc23/eng/20211013 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021043558 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021043559 ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-6125-8 ePDF: 978-1-5013-6127-2 eBook: 978-1-5013-6126-5 Typeset by Newgen KnowledgeWorks Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. To my family You are the constant reminder of gentleness and beauty Marc, Surija and Oliver, my joy and inspiration For all the days I owe you – Toija Thanks to my family for their love and support Special thanks to my husband, Paul, and my children, Alice and Zach – Jordan vi CONTENTS List of Figures x List of Contributors xii Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: Screen media, artefacts and intra-communication 1 Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent Section One Socio-aesthetics of sound and sight 7 1 Virtual reality, the chiasm and the doubled body 11 Angela Ndalianis 2 Sensing Sims: Atmospheres, aesthetics and the cyborg player 25 Merlin Seller 3 Embodied audiovisual experience: The role of sound in contemporary screen and digital media 45 Darrin Verhagen and Ben Byrne 4 Volumetric Black: Post-cinematic Blackness 61 Triton Mobley viii CONTENTS Section Two Meaning-making in the data-driven era 81 5 Quantified me: Curatorial lives and the pixelated spectre of self 87 Toija Cinque 6 Virtual reality and kinaesthetic connection: Qualities of ‘being there’ 107 Kim Vincs 7 Feminist memes: Digital communities, identity performance and resistance from the shadows 123 Shana MacDonald and Brianna I. Wiens 8 The infinite portrait: A case of post-human authorship 141 Andrew McIntyre Section Three Touch, body, metal, screen 163 9 First encounters with robots through embodied observation, imagined narrative and choreography 169 Amy LaViers 10 Physical digitality: Making reality visible through multimodal digital affordances for human perception 187 Luke Heemsbergen, Greg Bowtell and Jordan Beth Vincent 11 A true feel: Re-embodying the touch sense in the digital fashion experience 205 Michela Ornati 12 What robots learn from performative relationships and interactive performance 223 Steph Hutchison and John McCormick CONTENTS ix Section Four Digital futures 243 13 Smart home: Smart devices and the everyday experiences of the home 249 Xi Cui 14 Affect and the digitalization of war 269 John MacWillie 15 Automation is a myth 289 Luke Munn 16 A triadic typology of material mediation: Ontology, intentionality and vitalism 305 Renata Lemos Morais Index 321
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