Time and the Digital: Connecting Technology, Aesthetics, and a Process Philosophy of Time

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments This book was completed while I was employed as a research fellow at the iCinema Research Center, the University of New South Wales. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Dennis Del Favero, the center’s director, an artist with unique and unrelenting vision, and an extremely generous and supportive individual. I would also like to thank Anna Munster for all her support and advice during the completion of this manuscript. Her work is a continual inspiration, and this book would not have been possible without her. Ursula Frohne has also been extremely supportive of my work, and I owe her a great deal. Also Steven Shaviro has read and made comments on several versions of the manuscript as it moved toward its current state. I thank him sincerely for his insightful , collegial, and encouraging comments. A shorter version of Chapter 1 originally appeared in the journal Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture 1(1) with the title “Re-Composing the Digital Present.” Several ideas and the critical discussion of David Claerbout’s work also originally appeared in the journal Time and Society with the title “The Past in the Present: Understanding the Temporal Aesthetics of David Claerbout.” I thank the editors that I worked with, Brianne Cohen of Contemporaneity and Robert Hassan of Time and Society, as well as the anonymous reviewers of the journals for their work in helping me test out and develop these ideas. As always, my warmest thanks goes to my wife Michelle, who has, through everything, provided me with unconditional and unwavering support. Time and the Digital ...