...pleasure is sought by the consumer in an interface with visual technology. By visual technology, I mean any form of apparatus designed either to be looked...from oil painting to television and the Internet. Postmodernism has often been defined as the crisis of modernism. In this context, this implies that...

...information, meaning, or pleasure is sought by the consumer in an interface with visual technology, ie any form of apparatus designed either to be looked...enhance natural vision, from oil painting to television or the Internet." How would you evaluate such a definition of visual culture? Schroder: It seems to...

...spectroscopes. spectrographs. and spectrometers encountered thus far as 'visual technologies'. in the sense of "any form of apparatus designed either to be looked...natural vision. from oil painting to television and the Internet."65 I argue that the visual culture of spectroscopy is another "contested terrain" with competing...

...pleasure is sought by the consumer in an interface with visual technology. By visual technology, I mean any form of apparatus designed either to be looked...the crucial completion of that work by its cultural reception. This volume offers a selection of the best critical and historical work in the past decade...

...York: Pantheon, 1980), 24. 5. I use the term visual technology in Nicholas Mirzoeff's broad sense, as "any form of apparatus designed either to be looked...from oil painting to television and the Internet," as Mirzoeff denned the term in An Introduction to Visual Culture (New York: Routledge, 1999), 3. 6....

...images: • technological. Mirzoeff (1998: 1) defines a visual technology as 'any form technological of apparatus designed either to be looked at or to enhance natural vision, from oil paintings to television and the Internet'. • compositional. Compositionality refers to the specific...