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Author:   Thea Brejzek (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ,  Lawrence Wallen (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ,  Joslin McKinney (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Professor Scott Palmer (University of Leeds, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
ISBN:  

9781350449800

ISBN 10:   1350449806
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   27 November 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - On the Virtual Model The Site The Virtual Model -Dispositifand Critical Instrument The Imaginary and the Imagined Model, Doppelgänger and the Digital Twin The Map and the Territory The Real and the Virtual The Locus of the Virtual Chapter 2 – Art, Science and Engineering – Imagining the Virtual Media Art, Visionary and Virtual Architecture New York as Site for Experimental Art and Technology 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age Architectural Imaginaries Utopic Vision of a Future City Forensic Architecture's Virtual Models Performance, Media and Architecture Chapter 3 – Performing the Virtual Model in the Material World Deconstructing Nation, Gender, Race Liminal Spaces - Dumb Type Body and Code - LuYang Digital Colonialism - Morehshin Allahyari Imagining the Future - Yael Bartana Other Spaces Chapter 4 – Immersion, Animism and Technology Between the Virtual and the Real Deconstruction and Myth - Romeo Castellucci Metamorphoses and Masks - Björk Embodied Experiences - Olafur Eliasson Duality and Transformation - Apitchong Weerasethakul Memory, Iconoclasm, Animism Chapter 5 – Researching the Virtual The Art and Science Lab The Emergence of the Immaterial Virtual Reality Typologies Ontologies of the Virtual From a Sense of Proximity to a Sense of Distance To Be A Machine But what happens if the Theatre stops Working? Notes References Index

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Thea Brejzek is Professor of Spatial Theory at the School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Lawrence Wallen is Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

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