Time and the Digital: Connecting Technology, Aesthetics, and a Process Philosophy of Time [Paperback]

Eschewing the traditional focus on object/viewer spatial relationships, Timothy Scott Barkers Time and the Digital stresses the role of the temporal in digital art and media. The connectivity of contemporary digital interfaces has not only expanded the relationships between once separate spaces but has increased the complexity of the temporal in nearly unimagined ways. Invoking the process philosophy of Whitehead and Deleuze, Barker strives for nothing less than a new philosophy of time in digital encounters, aesthetics, and interactivity. Of interest to scholars in the fields of art and media theory and philosophy of technology, as well as new media artists, this study contributes to an understanding of the new temporal experiences emergent in our interactions with digital technologies.

TIMOTHY SCOTT BARKER is a lecturer in digital media at the University of Glasgow and a visiting research fellow at the University of New South Wales.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Whitehead and Deleuze Trains, Telephones, Televisions Mediation Time, Process, and Multi-temporality Experimenting with Time Convergences Performing Digital Aesthetics Technology as Temporalizing Time and Process Process Whiteheads Time What Is an Event? Perceiving Events Deleuzes Time and Serress Multi-temporality What Deleuze Reads in Bergson The Virtual Serress Time and Digital Presentness A Time That Moves Sideways The Time of David Claerbout, Bill Viola, and Dan Graham The Time of David Claerbout The Time of Bill Viola The Time of Dan Graham Events and Interactive Aesthetics The Event and Present The Story Is Like a River . . . Time and T_Visionarium Re-presenting Events Rethinking the User: Humans and Technology Technology, Aesthetics, and Deleuzes Virtual Time and the Virtual Delays and Movement Extensions, Entanglements, and Prehension A Unison of Becoming The Effect of Rel#