The Virtual Embodied : Practice, Presence, Technology (Paperback)

THE VIRTUAL EMBODIED assembles artists, performers, designers, and scholars to explore human presence in virtuality. This brilliant collection examines ideas of embodiment, knowledge, and space to raise fundamental questions about technology and human presence, and the different ways human beings are insinuated within technology. 19 photos. The Virtual Embodied is intended to inform, provoke and delight. It explores the ideas of embodiment, knowledge, space, virtue and virtuality to address fundamental questions about technology and human presence. It juxtaposes cutting-edge theories, polemics, and creative practices to uncover ethical, aesthetic and ecological implications of why, how and in particular where, human actions, observations and insights take place.
In The Virtual Embodied, many of the authors, artists, performers and designers apply their interdisciplinary passions to questions of embodied knowledge and virtual space. In doing so it chooses to acknowledge the limitations of the conventional linear book and uses them creatively to challenge existing genres of multi-media and networked consumerism.