Wednesday, December 6, 2006

The Language of New Media, IV

"Whose vision is it? it is the vision of a computer, a cyborg, an automatic missile. It is a realistic representation of human vision in the furue, when it will be augmented by computer grapcis and cleansed from noise. It is the vision of a digital grid. Synthetic computer-generated imagery is not an inferior representation of our reality, but a realistic representation of a different reality." p. 202

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media (Leonardo Books). The MIT Press, 2002.

1 comment:

skuo said...

In a way, this quote by Manovich implies that the computer representation is a progression of the cinema, instead of a whole other medium, since it utilizes a similar visual format but perceives differently. A different lens, so to speak.