TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boucher, Marie-Pier
AU  - Helmreich, Stefan
AU  - Kinney, Leila W.
AU  - Tibbits, Skylar
AU  - Unchill, Rebecca
AU  - Ziporyn, Evan
TI  - Being material
SN  - 9780262043281
U1  - 306.46 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Commercial products
N1  - includes index
N2  - Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.
In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that social relations, media, and commerce would move from the realm of “atoms to bits”—that human affairs would be increasingly untethered from the material world. And yet in 2019, an age dominated by the digital, we have not quite left the material world behind. In Being Material, artists and technologists explore the relationship of the digital to the material, demonstrating that processes that seem wholly immaterial function within material constraints. Digital technologies themselves, they remind us, are material things—constituted by atoms of gold, silver, silicon, copper, tin, tungsten, and more
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