The Human in Bits: Graphical Computers, Black Abstractions - Paperback
by Kris Cohen
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478032090ISBN-10:147803209XUPC:9781478032090Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Media StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.80 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCXA5J8E43
The Human in Bits: Graphical Computers, Black Abstractions
In The Human in Bits, Kris Cohen examines black abstractionist painting to demonstrate how race and computation are intimately entangled with the personal computer's graphic user interface. He shows how the personal computer and the graphical field of its screen meant to transform the human by transforming what environments humans were to labor in. It also provided the means for whiteness to tie...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478032090ISBN-10:147803209XUPC:9781478032090Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Media StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.80 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCXA5J8E43
Kris Cohen is Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College and author of Never Alone, Except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations, also published by Duke University Press.
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