| Description |
In Snap to Grid, Peter Lunefeld maps out the trajections that digital technologies have traced upon our cultural imaginary. His clear-eyed evaluation of new media includes an impassioned discussion- informed by the discourse of technology, aesthetics, and cultural theory- of the digital artists, designer, and makers who matter most. "Snap to Grid" is a command that instructs the computer to take hand-drawn lines and plot them precisely in Cartesian space. Advanced users regularly disable this function the moment they open an application because they value ambiguity and expressiveness more than predictability and accuracy. Lunefeld uses "snap to grid" as a metaphor for how we manipulate and think about electronic culture that enfolds us. In this book he snaps his seduction by the machine to the grid of critical thinking. |