Digital Encountersis a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games and installation art.In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies, the way we encounter and understand these story-worlds, game spaces and art works reveals aspects of the ways in which we organise and decode the vast amount of visual material we are bombarded with each day.Working with examples fromThe Incredibles; The Matrix; Tomb Raider: Legendand Bill Viola'sThe Five Angels for the Millenium, Aylish Wood considers how viewers engage with the diverse interfaces of digital effects cinema, digital games and time-based installations and argues that technologies alter human engagement, distributing our attention across a network of images and objects.This groundbreaking study of digital technology will revitalise this area of research.Aylish Woodis Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent. Her current research interests are the impact of digital technologies on the expressive possibilities of different moving image media, including animation, digital cinema, digital games, and the time-based gallery installations.