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A treatise on the loop as a desired form: visual feedback and relational new media

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dc.contributor.advisor Nitsche, Michael
dc.contributor.author Lodato, Thomas James en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember DiSalvo, Carl
dc.contributor.committeeMember Navarro, Vinicius
dc.contributor.committeeMember Pearce, Celia
dc.contributor.department Literature, Communication, and Culture en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2010-06-10T15:24:55Z
dc.date.available 2010-06-10T15:24:55Z
dc.date.issued 2010-04-12 en_US
dc.description.abstract The visual feedback loop has long-been ignored as a form and an aesthetic within new media. Media theories have largely assumed a medium is defined by the material technology, relegating visual feedback to a circumstance of media rather than a unique and well-defined concept. This thesis sets forth a criteria for characterizing the visual feedback loop as a desired form, that is, a distinct set of formal and phenomenological qualities that are independent of a medium. Grounding the criteria are the cinema theories of Gilles Deleuze and Sean Cubitt; these theories propose that the cinematic image relates visual forms to generate information in decoding rather represents information directly. The thesis elaborates the theoretical concepts in examples of visual feedback loops from video (Nam June Paikâ s TV Buddha, Bruce Naumanâ s Live Taped Video Corridor), new media art (Daniel Rozinâ s physical mirrors), and digital technologies (GPS navigation systems). To reconcile the visual feedback loop within media theories, the thesis calls for a radical change in how theorists define a medium. Moving away from notions of inscription and materiality, media now rely on a collapsed distinction between sender and receiver. Hence, visual feedback loops exist as remediations of a conceptual framework rather than a technological one, and so require a logic within media theory that allow for the rise of other desired forms like the visual feedback loop. en_US
dc.description.degree M.S. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33880
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Ontology en_US
dc.subject Phenomenology en_US
dc.subject New media en_US
dc.subject Visual feedback en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Digital media
dc.subject.lcsh Audiences in art
dc.subject.lcsh Self-consciousness (Awareness)
dc.title A treatise on the loop as a desired form: visual feedback and relational new media en_US
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dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Nitsche, Michael
local.contributor.corporatename School of Literature, Media, and Communication
local.contributor.corporatename Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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