Space in New Media Conception - With Continual Reference to Computer Games and Game Graphics

摘要

This article, partly philosophical and partly practical, challenges the notion of space (and time) in new media conception such as it is outlined in Lev Manovich's seminal book The Language of New Media (2001) by testing it against (other) notions and representations of spatiality. This leads to a discussion of computer game spaces and the way they remix earlier media. It is argued that computer game spaces, and, more generally, the layered techniques of computer mediated graphics, can be seen as the combined result of Renaissance geometry, topological space in Modernism, and the moving images of cinematography.