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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Computer Graphics
Description: In this episode of High Theory, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan talks with us about computer graphics. Emerging from tools for sailing and warmaking, like sea charts and radar, modern computer graphics are technologies of mapping and managing risk. They seem intent on absorbing the human sensorium into the machine.In the episode Bernard refers to computer graphics as âtechniques of addressing,â a term he attributes to Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal. He also uses the term âoperational imagesâ which comes from the work of Harun Farocki, and talks about SAGE, the US Governmentâs Cold War era Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense S...