Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency

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Jay David Bolter (Wesley Chair of New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology) Diane Gromala (Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University)

Windows and Mirrors

Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency

Jay David Bolter (Wesley Chair of New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology), Diane Gromala (Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University), Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST) , Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)

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MIT Press
23 September 2005

Theory of art; Electronic, holographic & video art

Series: Leonardo

The experience of digital art and how it is relevant to information technology.

In Windows and Mirrors- Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible ""information appliances."" They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner; it feels like a medium that is now taking its place beside other media like printing, film, radio, and television. The computer as medium creates new forms and genres for artists and designers; Bolter and Gromala want to show what digital art has to offer to Web designers, education technologists, graphic artists, interface designers, HCI experts, and, for that matter, anyone interested in the cultural implications of the digital revolution.

In the early 1990s, the World Wide Web began to shift from purely verbal representation to an experience for the user in which form and content were thoroughly integrated. Designers brought their skills and sensibilities to the Web, as well as a belief that a message was communicated through interplay of words and images. Bolter and Gromala argue that invisibility or transparency is only half the story; the goal of digital design is to establish a rhythm between transparency-made possible by mastery of techniques-and reflection-as the medium itself helps us understand our experience of it.

The book examines recent works of digital art from the Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2000. These works, and their inclusion in an important computer conference, show that digital art is relevant to technologists. In fact, digital art can be considered the purest form of experimental design; the examples in this book show that design need not deliver information and then erase itself from our consciousness but can engage us in an interactive experience of form and content.

By: Jay David Bolter (Wesley Chair of New Media Georgia Institute of Technology), Diane Gromala (Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University)
Series edited by: Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor Leonardo/ISAST), Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780262524490
ISBN 10: 026252449X
Series: Leonardo
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 23 September 2005
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jay David Bolter is Wesley Chair of New Media and Codirector of the Augmented Media Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Remediation- Understanding New Media (with Richard Grusin), Windows and Mirrors- Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency (with Diane Gromala), both published by the MIT Press, and other books. Diane Gromala, PhD., is the Canada Research Chair at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

Reviews for Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency

I recommend this book... a refreshing experience and source of inspiration. —Gerd Waloszek, SAP Design Guild

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Windows and Mirrors

Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency

Jay David Bolter (Wesley Chair of New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology), Diane Gromala (Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University), Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST) , Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)

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