Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and HyperrealityIn Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality. He looks at the dramatic intellectual and cultural upheavals that gave birth to it, the hype that surrounds it, the people who have promoted it, and the dramatic implications of its development. Virtual reality is not simply a technology, it is a way of thinking created and promoted by a group of technologists and thinkers that sees itself as creating our future. Virtual Worlds reveals the politics and culture of these virtual realists, and examines whether they are creating reality, or losing their grasp of it. 12 photographs. |
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... artist might draw a picture of a warty potato . But neither is it demonstrably a computable object - though the computer allows us to glimpse it to ever finer degrees of detail . Platonic reality , in other words , cannot be explored by ...
... artist might draw a picture of a warty potato . But neither is it demonstrably a computable object - though the computer allows us to glimpse it to ever finer degrees of detail . Platonic reality , in other words , cannot be explored by ...
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... artistic progress . It asserts art's unique access to beauty as unchallenged . Photography is used as evidence that art is ... artist Kazimir Malevich , who formalized his discoveries in a new artistic movement he called ' suprematism ...
... artistic progress . It asserts art's unique access to beauty as unchallenged . Photography is used as evidence that art is ... artist Kazimir Malevich , who formalized his discoveries in a new artistic movement he called ' suprematism ...
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... artist Filippo Brunelleschi began making experimental drawings with mirrors and callipers , he was attempting to find a scientific way of projecting a three - dimensional space onto a two- dimensional surface , the canvas . This was a ...
... artist Filippo Brunelleschi began making experimental drawings with mirrors and callipers , he was attempting to find a scientific way of projecting a three - dimensional space onto a two- dimensional surface , the canvas . This was a ...
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