J. Macgregor Wise - New Visualities, New Technologies

The New Ecstasy of Communication

J. MACGREGOR WISE
Arizona State University, USA

and

HILLE KOSKELA
University of Helsinki, Finland

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
New visualities, new technologies : the new ecstasy of

communication.
1. Communication and technology. 2. Social media. 3. Social
media--Moral and ethical aspects.
I. Wise, J. Macgregor (John Macgregor) II. Koskela, Hille
302.231-dc23

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
New visualities, new technologies : the new ecstasy of communication / By J. Macgregor Wise and Koskela, Hille [editors].

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-0357-9 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-0358-6 1. Visual communication. 2. Digital communication. 3. Communication--Technological innovations. I. Wise, J. Macgregor (John Macgregor) II. Koskela, Hille

P93.5.N53 2012
302.2--dc23

2012029566

ISBN 9781409403579 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315598178 (ebk)

John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He specializes in the media and art theory of Paul Virilio, the French contemporary philosopher and critic of the art of technology. He is the author of Virilio and the Media (Polity, 2012) and the editor of Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (Sage, 2000), Virilio Live: Selected Interviews (Sage, 2001), Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies (Polity, 2011), The Virilio Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and, with Ryan Bishop, Virilio and Visual Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). He is founder and co-editor, with Ryan Bishop and Douglas Kellner, of the Duke University Press journal Cultural Politics.

Jane Bailey is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law (Common Law) at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where she teaches Cyberfeminism and Technoprudence courses. She has written and spoken extensively on issues relating to gender, technology and the law, including online child pornography and sexting. She is co-principal investigator with Valerie Steeves on The eGirls Project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. eGirls is investigating the performance of gender on social networking sites.

Ursula Anna Frohne is Associate Professor for Art of the 20th and 21st centuries at the University of Cologne. She received her PhD with a thesis on the social history of the American artist at the Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany. She was Chief Curator at the ZKMCenter for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Adjunct Professor for art history at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe, where she co-chaired the Graduate Research Program BodyImageMedium. An Anthropological Perspective at the Academy of Design in Karlsruhe (2003-2009). After a guest professorship at the Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, she was Associate Professor for Art History at the International University Bremen, Germany. Since 2007 she has chaired the Research Project Reflections of Cinematographic Aesthetics in Contemporary Art (http://kinoaesthetik.uni-koeln.de/) and she is currently co-chair of the research project Radio Art in collaboration with the University Bremen. Her English language publications include the co-edited MIT Press-published anthology CTRL SPACE Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (with Thomas Y. Levin and Peter Weibel, 2002), Art In-Formation. Communication Aesthetics and Network Structures in Art from the 1960s to the Present (with Anne Thurmann-Jajes, forthcoming in 2013) and articles in Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader (eds. Charles Esche, Tanya Leighton et al., London, New York: Tate Afterall, 2008) and in Art Bulletin (July 2012).

Larissa Hjorth is an artist, digital ethnographer and Associate Professor in the Games Programs, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University, Australia. Since 2000, Hjorth has been researching and publishing on gendered customising of mobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia-Pacificthese studies are outlined in her two books, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2009) and Games and Gaming (Berg, 2010). Hjorth has published widely on the topic in national and International journals in journals such as Games and Culture Journal, Convergence Journal, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Continuum, ACCESS, Fibreculture and Southern Review and has co-edited three Routledge anthologies, Gaming Cultures and Place in the Asia-Pacific Region (with Dean Chan, 2009), Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunication to Media (with Gerard Goggin, 2009) and Studying the iPhone: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (with Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson, 2012). Hjorth is currently completing two Australian Research Council grantsone discovery, the other linkageexploring screen/online cultures in the Asia-Pacific region.

Brooke A. Knight is an artist and educator working in interactive media. Currently, his areas of interest include the intersection of landscape and text (broadly defined), and the technological lens through which we read that text. Over 50 international venues have exhibited his artwork, much of which is created for mobile devices. His written work has appeared in Art Journal and Sandbox, and he has lectured widely. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston, MA.

Hille Koskela is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geosciences and Geography (Division of Geography), University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also an Adjunct Professor in urban geography. Her research interests include video surveillance and the politics of control, gender relations in surveillance practices, the emotional experience of being watched, and the responsibilization of the public to contribute in surveillance via online webcams. She has published surveillance related articles in a wide range of multidisciplinary journalsmost recently in