{"product_id":"immersion-in-the-visual-arts-and-media-9789004308190","title":"Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Burcu Dogramaci \u0026amp; 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210679837015,"sku":"9789004308190","price":132.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/immersion-in-the-visual-arts-and-media-9789004308190","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}