| Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media Contributor(s): Liptay, Fabienne, Dogramaci, Burcu |
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ISBN: 9004308199 ISBN-13: 9789004308190 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $156.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Performing Arts |
| Series: Studies in Intermediality |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.60 lbs) 402 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume brings together contributions by distinguished experts from different disciplinary fields for a multidimensional view on immersion in the visual arts and media. In the current media debate, immersion has frequently been linked to the advent of digital technology and its capacity to provide vivid sensations of being placed in or surrounded by an artificial space. The idea of 'liquidity' contained in this promise to plunge into another world informs wide areas of contemporary cultural imagination, referring to a myriad of phenomena that relate to experiences of uncertainty and instability, of complexity and change. Considering the fact, however, that the idea of 'liquid' spaces appeared long before the digital creation of augmented or virtual environments, the contributors to this volume trace its reemerging throughout the history of the visual arts and media. By focusing on selected works of painting and architecture, photography and cinema, video installation and media art, they explore the variability of immersive experiences according to the different media environments and interfaces that constitute the actual sites of historically shifting relations between media and users. Contributors are: Matthias Bauer, J rg von Brincken, Robin Curtis, Burcu Dogramaci, Thomas Elsaesser, Ole W. Fischer, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Ursula Frohne, Henry Keazor, Matthias Kr ger, Katja Kwastek, Fabienne Liptay, Karl Pr mm, Martin Warnke. |