基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1995.
Full Description
The Banff Centre for the Arts has become synonymous for what's hot in the electronic arts, a place where professional artists come to produce new work and develop new skills. This book brings together critical essays along with artists' projects to explore the many issues raised by the creation of virtual environments and to provide a glimpse into worlds that have been much discussed but rarely seen.The book opens with eleven essays that approach the social and cultural implications of cyberspace from the perspective of cultural studies, communications, art history, art criticism, English, and women's studies. These are followed by nine virtual environments (along with statements of what the artists are trying to accomplish in both theoretical and technical terms), created as part of the Art and Virtual Environments Project at the Banff Centre.
Contents
Part 1 Embodied virtualityKatherine Hayles; Virtual skin: articulating race in cyberspace, Cameron Bailey; Mysteries of the bioapparatus, Nell Tenhaaf; When is the ear pierced? the clashes of sound, technology, and cyberculture, Frances Dyson; Cyberdammerung at Wellspring Systems, Allucquere Rosanne Stone; A disappearance of community, Avital Ronell; Fascination, masculinity, and cyberspace, Rob Milthorp; A city for bachelors, Jeanne Randolph; Aboriginal narratives in cyberspace, Loretta Todd; Nature Morte: landscape and narrative in virtual environments, Margaret Morse; Time travelling in the gallery: an archaeological approach in media art, Erkki Huktamo. Part 2 Objects of ritual, Will Bauer and Steve Gibson; Archaeology of a mother tongue, Toni Dove and Michael Mackenzie; Dancing with the virtual dervish: virtual bodies, Diane J. Gromala and Yacov Sharir; Bar code Hotel, Perry Hoberman; VR on $5 a day, Ron Kuivila; Placeholder, Brenda Laurel and Rachel Strickland; Field recording studies, Michael Naimark; Dancing with the virtual dervish: worlds in progress, Marcos Novak; Topological slide, Michael Scroggins and Stewart Dickson; Inherent rights, vision rights, Laurence Paul Yuxweluptun.
