Digital Embodiment and the Arts: Exploring Hybrid Spaces through Emerging Technologies - Hardcover

Doyle, Denise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1789389771 ISBN 13: 9781789389777

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2024

Synopsis

A timely examination of the use of emerging technologies in the arts in recent decades, from the first wave of Virtual Reality through to the current use of Mixed, Augmented and Extended Realities. It highlights the necessity of understanding technological experiences through the assumption that all experience is embodied. An explosion of digital culture and experience has most certainly given artists and creative practitioners new ways of exploring a hybridisation of creative practices with access to technological tools only previously dreamt of. Further, there are a number of threads around digital embodiment and its centrality to the digital experience.

The book is divided into 3: Section 1 explores the whole notion of embodied experience through a study of space and virtuality, imagination, and technology. Section 2 lays the ground for a more explicit understanding of the role the body has in our engagement with the digital technologies focussing on three distinct bodies: the  gravitational body, the virtual body, and finally the hybrid body. Section 3 is split into three chronological chapters in terms of technological developments, that of VR, Virtual Worlds, and Augmented, Mixed, and Extended Realities.

While individual aspects and themes covered here can be found in some recent books, there is little that places digital embodiment within the arts in the way this book does. A unique synthesis.

About this title

About the Author

Denise Doyle is reader in digital media at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom and adjunct professor in digital futures, Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), Toronto, Canada. With over twenty years experience in arts and new technologies, she continues to research the impact of emerging technologies on practices across a diverse range of creative fields. In 2019, she was awarded £85,000 to join the STARTS Prize initiative co-ordinated by Ars Electronica on behalf of the European Commission. She has recently completed a monograph entitled Digital Embodiment and the Arts (Intellect, 2024) and is principal editor of Virtual Creativity since 2017.

Contact: School of Art, University of Wolverhampton, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789389771
• ISBN 13: 9781789389777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230