Research Catalog

Title

Char Davies' immersive virtual art and the essence of spatiality / Laurie McRobert.

Author

McRobert, Laurie.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

x, 190 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

"In this first book-length study of the internationally renowned Canadian artist Char Davies, Laurie McRobert examines the digital installations Osmose and Ephemere in the context of Davies' artistic and conceptual inspirations. Davies, originally a painter, turned to technology in an effort to create the effect of osmosis between self and world. By donning a head-mounted display unit and a body vest to monitor breathing and balance, participants are immersed in three-dimensional virtual space where they interact with abstract images of nature while manoeuvring in an artificial spatial environment."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Interactive art
• Art and technology
• Davies, Char
• Virtual reality in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-184) and index.

Contents

1. The dynamics of immersive virtual art -- 2. Digital knowing versus digital being -- 3. Heidegger, Davies, and technological essence -- 4. Substantial essence -- 5. On up/down paradigms and the 'essence of spatiality' -- 6. The essence of cyberspace and immersive virtual spatiality -- 7. Instincts and the unconscious : digital transcendence and essential spatiality -- 8. Speculative inquiries into the elements of char davies' immersive virtual art.

ISBN

• 080209094X :
• 9780802090942 :

OCLC

• OCM65206224
• 65206224
• SCSB-5333263

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries