[spectre] Interface Cultures

[Oliver Grau]

Folks,

there is a new publication on Interface Cultures, edited by Christa
Sommerer etal.
Thought this might be interesting for our list.

Oliver

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Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothée King (eds.)
Interface Cultures
Artistic Aspects of Interaction
August 2008, 348 Seiten, kart., zahlr. Abb., 34,80 Euro
ISBN: 978-3-89942-884-1

>From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design - the
term
interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the
fields of
interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces,
auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices,
intelligent
ambiences, sensor technologies, telecommunication and new experimental
forms
of human-machine, human-human and machine-machine interactions and the
cultural discourse surrounding them.

This book's aim is to give an overview of the current state of
interactive
art and interface technology as well as an outlook on new forms of
hybridization in art, media, scientific research and every-day media
applications.

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are
professors and heads of the master and doctoral study course
"Interface
Cultures" at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz. They
rank
among the most influential media artists creating pioneering
interactive art
works.

Dorothée King teaches and works on her doctorate at the Interface
Cultures study program. Her main research field is "emotionality" in
interactive arts.

Weblink: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts884/ts884.php