Enfoldment and infinity : an Islamic genealogy of new media art
Laura U. Marks (Author)
After reading Laura Marks's lucid Enfoldment and Infinity, which leads us through the deep time layers of Arabic-Islamic arts and sciences, we have to give up our established concepts of media history. There remains no substantial reason to declare our culture and technologies of communication the most advanced in the world. Chapter by chapter, it becomes more evident that some of the most important paradigms like algorithms, pixels, morphs, or even virtual reality and artificial life have not been originally generated by the Occident, but through L'Age d'Or of the Orient, especially Mesopotamia with Baghdad in its center. S̮iegfried Zielinski, Academy of Arts Berlin--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2010
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2010