Hybrid Culture: Japanese Media Arts in Dialogue with the West

by Yvonne Spielmann

An exploration of the tensions between East and West and digital and analog in Japanese new-media art.

This book grew out of Yvonne Spielmann's 2005-2006 and 2009 visits to Japan, where she explored the technological and aesthetic origins of Japanese new-media art--which was known for pioneering interactive and virtual media applications in the 1990s. Spielmann discovered an essential hybridity in Japan's media culture: an internal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018373
• ISBN13: 9780262018371
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher