Whitelaw, Mitchell, ‘Transmateriality: Presence Aesthetics and the Media Arts’, in Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging With Ubiquitous Computing, ed. by Ulrik Ekman (MIT Press, 2012), pp. 223–236
Through Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s work, this paper proposes a "presence aesthetics" in the media arts, and argues that media technologies can elicit moments of intensified being-in-the-world, despite their more familiar role in distancing that world from us.
Throughout at MIT Press
