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Resolution: Digital materialities, thresholds of visibility

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dc.creatorCasetti, Francesco
dc.creatorSomaini, Antonio
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T13:25:09Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T13:25:09Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractOften used as a synonym of ‘definition’, the term ‘resolution’ indicates the quantity of detail a raster digital image holds, and may refer to image resolution (the size of a digital image file), display resolution (the total number of pixels or the pixel density of a digital visual display), or optical resolution (the number of image sensor elements in a digital camera). Resolution may be increased or decreased, and its various degrees determine not only the visual appearance of an image, but also the conditions of its production, storage, and circulation. As a way of measuring and controlling visibility, resolution raises a whole series of aesthetic, epistemological, and political implications, and may be tackled from the different perspective of media theory, media archaeology, and visual culture theory. Reaching back to McLuhan’s reflections on the low definition of the television screen and on its analogies with mosaics and pointillisme, this introduction examines the question of resolution in a number of film, media, and artistic practices from the 1960s to today.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3441
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/resolution-digital-materialities-thresholds-of-visibility/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4210
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectDefinitionde
dc.subjectDigitales Bildde
dc.subjectBildschirmde
dc.subjectdefinitionen
dc.subjectdigital imagesen
dc.subjectresolutionen
dc.subjectscreenen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personMarshall McLuhan
dc.subject.personHito Steyerl
dc.titleResolution: Digital materialities, thresholds of visibilityen
dc.typearticle
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationCasetti, Francesco; Somaini, Antonio (2018): Resolution: Digital materialities, thresholds of visibility. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 7 (1), 87–103. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3441.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:04:13
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/resolution-digital-materialities-thresholds-of-visibility/
local.source.epage103
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage87
local.source.volume7
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local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/133436756
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193871
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98366

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