Modes of Spectating
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2009
267 pages
978-1-84150-296-0 (ISBN)
Description
The notion of spectatorship has become of increasing interest as artists develop experimental works and manufacturers seek to produce the means for viewing such works. Modes of Spectating explores the visual landscapes which spectators encounter, and how they perceive what they view.The volume questions the effect of different mediums on the spectator and asks not only how we view, but also how what we view determines what artists create. Chapters discuss how gaming and televisual media and entertainment are used by young people, and the resulting psychological challenges of human beings in their new 'spectated' surroundings of virtual worlds and media. Themes explored include aesthetics, the body and mind and digital entertainment environments, looked at through the lenses of gaming art, photography, sculpture and performance, making it a useful text for scholars of all disciplines of media and art.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Intellect
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84150-296-0 (9781841502960)
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Alison Oddey | Christine White
Modes of Spectating
Book
06/2009
Intellect Books
€55.84
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Persons
Alison Oddey is professor of contemporary performance and visual culture at the University of Northampton. Christine White teaches at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Content
- Front Cover
- Preliminary Pages
- Contents
- Introduction: Visions Now: Life is a Screen
- Part One: Interactive Media and Youth Culture
- Chapter 1 Altered States
- Chapter 2 A Quick Walk Through Uncanny Valley
- Chapter 3 Spectatorship and Action Research Performance Models
- Part Two: Imaginative Escape
- Chapter 4 The Active Audience: The Network as a Performance Environment
- Chapter 5 The Audience in Second Life: Thoughts on the Virtual Spectator
- Chapter 6 Cultural Use of Cyberspace: Paradigms of Digital Reality
- Chapter 7 Observing the Interactive Movie Experience: The Artist'
- s Approach to Responsive Audience Interaction Design
- Part Three: Identity and the Self-conscious Spectator
- Chapter 8 Interior Spectating: Viewing Inner Imagery in Psychotherapy
- Chapter 9 Tuning-in to Sound and Space: Hearing, Voicing and Walking
- Chapter 10 Picturing Men: Performers and Spectators
- Chapter 11 Haptic Visuality: The Dissective View in Performance
- Chapter 12 Touched by Human Hands: City and Performance
- Part Four: The Site of Spectating
- Chapter 13 Dwellings in Image-spaces
- Chapter 14 Embodiment, Ambulation and Duration
- Chapter 15 Odd Anonymized Needs: Punchdrunk'
- s Masked Spectator
- Chapter 16 Sites of Performance: The Wollstonecraft Live Experience!
- Selected Bibliography
- Authors Biographies
- Index
- Back Cover
