Aesthetics of the Virtual /

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Author / Creator:	Diodato, Roberto, author.
Uniform title:	Estetica del virtualel. English
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 161 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.
Subject:	Art and technology. Virtual reality in art. Virtual reality -- Philosophy. Art and technology Virtual reality in art Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11268203

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Other authors / contributors:	Benso, Silvia.
ISBN:	1438444370 9781438444376 9781438444352 9781438444376 1438444354
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Arguing that the virtual body is something new - namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world - the author considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by the famous distinction in Aristotle's Physics between natural and artificial beings - they are both. They are beings that are simultaneously events; they are images that are at once internal and external; they are ontological hybrids that exist only in the interaction between logical-computational text and human bodies endowed with technological prostheses. Pursuing this line of thought, the author reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts such as mimesis, representation, the relation between illusion and reality, the nature of images and imagination, and the theory of sensory knowledge.
Other form:	Print version: 9781438444352 1438444354

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