Synthesis and Nullification is the first retrospective covering the career of Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss as a visual artist, graphic designer, multimedia developer, writer, researcher, educator and visionary conceptualist. Synthesis and Nullification is used here metaphorically, as it stands for a complex and wide ranging theoretical and practical exploration in visual culture. The book is divided into four main chapters, which bundle in chronological order artwork, concept visualizations, installations, photographs and multimedia work. It contains numerous previously unpublished texts and artwork from the last two decades, allowing discovery of a whole universe of textual and visual material. Written for media scholars, media artists, designers, art historians, communication experts and curators.

InhaltsangabeForeword. - I Texts, concept visualizations: From soft cinema to collaborative moviemaking in the cloud. Ad hoc communication. No entrance for human beings. Cartesian and/or cyberspace. Scanning Henry Jenkins and Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss. The currency of the future. Net Aesthetics. Media-cultivation-sampling. Quick Response. Ubiquity. - II Photographs, multimedia: The internet of things. Nothing new in the west. RepairRecoverResetRescueSave. Air seats 2012. Cityscape series. Noesis/Noema. Borromini interactive. Digital motion graphics. Computer aided large scale imagery. Interactive CD-Rom. - III Installations: Body and fruits. The simplicity and joy of being. Children's playground. Liberty, for the democrat, consists not in being able to say everything he thinks, but in not having to think about everything he says. New York, New York. Boxes, words and contradictions.