Orders of Visuality. Review on "Imagery in the 21st Century"
Declaration invasion image, total and aggressive technogenic new imagery, the requirements of visual ecology hearing the last 30 years. The transformation of social life, the historical development and the emergence of new technological images clearly require reorganization methods of analysis, methods of working with the new forms of visualization. Scientific and practical work with a visual material is really only just beginning. An example is the voluminous book "Imagery in the 21st Century", edited by Oliver Grau and Thomas Veigl, released by the publishing house at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, a leading research institute of technology in the world. Collection raises actual questions of the existence of visual and provides a systematic and interdisciplinary understanding of the origin, production conditions and the effects of new forms of imaging and visualization.