Noise Channels

<div> <p>To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches inefficiencies and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies ergonomics and efficiency; in doing so he shows how creativity is stirred within the networks of digital culture.</p> <p><i>Noise Channels</i> offers a fresh look at hypertext and tactical media tunes into laptop music and situates the emergent forms of computer gaming and machinima in media history. Krapp analyzes text image sound virtual spaces and gestures in noisy channels of computer-mediated communication that seek to embrace-rather than overcome-the limitations and misfires of computing. Equally at home with online literature the visual tactics of hacktivism the recuperation of glitches in sound art electronica and videogames or machinima as an emerging media practice he explores distinctions between noise and information and how games pivot on errors at the human-computer interface.</p> <p>Grounding the digital humanities in the conditions of possibility of computing culture Krapp puts forth his insight on the critical role of information in the creative process.<br></p> </div>