Year
2018
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of the Arts, English and Media
Abstract
Media increasingly screens itself. To extend the understanding of our media-ontic world, we need to observe inside, behind, and through the medium’s surface effects. The trace of a medium, if followed between the poles of immutable representation and unstable mutable symbolic work, becomes of interest as medium in itself. This thesis highlights articulations of ‘trace’ that traverse assemblages of analogue-digital media couched in network culture and asks: How does the trace of a medium survive transversal analogue-digital media assemblage and what qualities of the trace hold potential in thinking about media cultures and practice?
Recommended Citation
Hughes, Gregory J., Articulations of Trace: Analogue-Digital Conversion in The Age of Transversal Reproduction, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of the Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong, 2018. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/552
FoR codes (2008)
2001 COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES, 1902 FILM, TELEVISION AND DIGITAL MEDIA, 1203 DESIGN PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT, 2202 HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SPECIFIC FIELDS
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.