Real Virtuality
About the Destruction and Multiplication of World
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2014
470 pages
978-3-8394-2608-1 (ISBN)
Description
Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the »old« world is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means.With a Preface by Gerd Stern.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
114
114 s/w Abbildungen
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File size
16,21 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-2608-1 (9783839426081)
DOI
10.14361/transcript.9783839426081
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Persons
Ulrich Gehmann (Dipl.-Biol., lic. oec. HSG et MA History) is founder of the working group 'Formatting of Social Spaces' at University of Karlsruhe and editor-in-chief of the journal 'New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts'.
Martin Reiche (B.Sc.) is an audiovisual installation artist living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Martin Reiche (B.Sc.) is an audiovisual installation artist living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Content
- Cover Real Virtuality
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Frame Context
- CHAPTER 1. THE BEGINNINGS
- The Scientific Image in the Anthropocene
- Thomas Jefferson's University: An Architectural Masque
- The Building of a Symbolic Image
- CHAPTER 2. THE UNFOLDINGS
- The World as Grid
- Gotham City
- Good Night, Zoo
- CHAPTER 3. VIRTUALIZATION GAINS MOMENTUM
- A Paradise of Decorated Sheds
- The Man in the Paper-made Folding Boat
- The Community Question
- Real Virtuality
- The Ambiguous Construction of Place and Space
- The Destruction of Space by Augmentation
- CHAPTER 4. FACETS OF ACCELERATION IN HYBRID SPACES
- Mixed Reality
- Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction
- Creating and Retrieving Knowledge in 3D Virtual Worlds
- Identity in Virtual Worlds
- Beyond the Visible Autonomy
- CHAPTER 5. BEYOND ACCELERATION
- "Unheimlich": The Uncanny and Narrative Space in Digital Arts
- Against the Self-Evident
- Explorable Spaces
- List of Contributors
