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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, Jörg von Brincken, Robin Curtis, Burcu Dogramaci, Thomas Elsaesser, Ole W. Fischer, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Ursula Frohne, Henry Keazor, Matthias Krüger, Katja Kwastek, Fabienne Liptay, Karl Prümm, Martin Warnke.

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Author:   Fabienne Liptay ,  Burcu Dogramaci
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.754kg
ISBN:  

9789004308190

ISBN 10:   9004308199
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   30 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Burcu Dogramaci & Fabienne Liptay Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media Part 1: Materials and Sensations of Immersion Burcu Dogramaci Water, Steam, Light: Artistic Materials of Immersion Robin Curtis Immersion and Abstraction as Measures of Materiality Katja Kwastek Immersed in Reflection: The Aesthetic Experience of Interactive Media Art Fabienne Liptay Neither Here nor There: The Paradoxes of Immersion Jörg von Brincken Phantom-Drug-Death Ride: The Psycho-sensory Dynamic of Immersion in Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void Part 2: Archaeologies and Technologies of Immersion Karl Prümm From the Unchained to the Ubiquitous Motion-Picture Camera: Camera Innovations and Immersive Effects Gundolf S. Freyermuth From Analog to Digital Image Space: Toward a Historical Theory of Immersion Martin Warnke On the Spot: The Double Immersion of Virtual Reality Ursula Frohne Expansion of the Immersion Zone: Military Simulacra between Strategic Training and Trauma Thomas Elsaesser Immersion between Recursiveness and Reflexivity: Avatar Part 3: Landscapes and Architectures of Immersion Henry Keazor Projection Rooms: Film as an Immersive Medium in the Architecture of Jean Nouvel Ole W. Fischer “The Treachery of Images”: Architecture, Immersion, and the Digital Realm Matthias Krüger Painting Immersion: Hans Thoma’s Landscapes Matthias Bauer Immersive Exhibition Design: Titanic Belfast and the Concept of Scenography Notes on Contributors Index of Names

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Fabienne Liptay, born 1974, is Professor of film studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include the theory and aesthetics of film imagery and narrative; the interrelations between film and the other arts and media; and the institutional frames of the cinema and the museum. Burcu Dogramaci, born 1971 in Ankara, is Professor of 20th-century and contemporary art at the Department of Art History at the University of Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on the areas of 20th-century and contemporary art; exile, transfer of culture, and migration; urbanity and architecture; intermediality in magazines and photobooks; the history and theory of photography; and fashion history and theory.

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