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Department chair, history of science, university of oklahoma, norman, ok. Beautiful data is a wonderful book, deeply engaging and full of compelling insights. A history of vision and reason since 1945 experimental futures by halpern, orit isbn. I also work closely with my brother, who is a writer and an artist.
We like to build archives, and love all things from the viennese secession. A history of vision and reason, builds on their work. Orit halpern is an associate professor at concordia university in montreal. A history of vision and reason since 1945 duke press 2015 is a genealogy of interactivity and our contemporary obsessions with big data and data visualization. Part of the experimental futures series, the book, which can be found here, tells both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second.
Halperns work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design and art practice. Review beautiful data is a wonderful book, deeply engaging and full of compelling insights. Using the postwar science of cyberneticsthe study of communication and controlas a point of departure, my book traces out the reformulation of observation and knowledge that occurred in a range of. Orit halpern is assistant professor of history at the new school for social research and eugene lang college orit halpern is the author of beautiful da. Using the postwar science of cyberneticsthe study of communication and controlas a point of departure, my book traces out the reformulation of. Orit halperns beautiful data is a major contribution in contempo rary media studies. Other books in the series experimental futures 1 10 of 39 books. Dec 15, 2014 beautiful data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the. Listen to an interview with orit halpern on new books in science.
New books in systems and cybernetics page 7 new books network. A history of vision and reason since 1945 experimental futures. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, orit halpern. Orit halpern beautiful data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. A history of vision and reason since 1945, duke press 2015, available here is a genealogy of interactivity, the interface, and big data. Beautiful data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in. The second half of the twentieth century saw a radical transformation in approaches to recording and displaying information. Orit halpern is assistant professor of history at the new school for social research and eugene lang college. May 02, 2016 her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design and art practice. Her research explores the histories of digital technologies, cybernetics, the human and cognitive sciences and design, with a particular focus on the histories of big data, interactivity and ubiquitous. Furthermore, the book argues that historical changes in how we manage and train perception and define reason and intelligence are also transformations in governmentality. Halpern pursues the lines of inquiry opened by historians of observation and interactivity such as jonathan crary, lorraine daston, peter galison, alexander galloway, katharine hayles, lev manovich, and wolfgang schievelbusch. Orit halperns new book traces the emergence of the communicative objectivity that resulted from this shift and produced new forms of.
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Orit halpern lecture institute of contemporary art, miami. My intent is to denaturalize and historically situate assumptions about the value of data, our regular obsession with. Apr 19, 2017 orit halpern is an associate professor of interactive design in the department of sociology and anthropology at concordia university, montreal. A history of vision and reason since 1945 duke press 2014 is a genealogy of interactivity and our contemporary obsessions with big data and data visualization. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids. A history of vision and reason since 1945 experimental futures by orit halpern 20150105 orit halpern on. A history of vision and reason since 1945 experimental futures ebook.
At a moment when we are faced with critical challenges concerning climate change and need new ideas and imaginaries for the future of human life and built environments, this book provides inspiration. Design as pedagogy uchicago arts the university of chicago. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Jul 03, 2016 orit halperns ambitious study, beautiful data. Orit halpern phd is a historian of science whose work bridges histories of computing and the human sciences with design and art practice.
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