3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices (Paperback)

Rebecca Hackemann

ISBN 10: 1789388759 / ISBN 13: 9781789388756

Verlag: Intellect, Bristol, 2023

Beschreibung

Paperback. A critical survey of artistic practices that involve the use of 3-D, which is emerging as a scholarly field in its own right. Though we see in three dimensions, we tend to notice 3-D when it is artificially created, as with a stereoscope. Rather than tell the history of 3-D through technique and technology, Rebecca Hackemann brings a conceptual, artistic, and critical view to her topic, unpacking its use in conceptual art, sculpture, and other mediums. Bringing together artists who were inspired by three-dimensional imagery and their theories, Hackemann surveys sixty years of 3-D in contemporary art for indicators of a turn in visual culture, foregrounding meaning and content. Her analysis spotlights 3-D as it comes into its own as a scholarly and artistic field that borders on new media, photography, and film. A critical survey of art practices by 25 artists, whose work involves the use of 3-D from 1900 to present. Addresses themes such as networked VR, the stereoscope as a spectacle in art practices ranging from painting to installation art, film, video, virtual reality art and the metaverse. 3-D glasses included with print editions. 89 colour illus. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781789388756

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: 3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices (Paperback)
• Verlag: Intellect, Bristol
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1789388759
• ISBN-13: 9781789388756
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

The book addresses themes such as visual perception, perception of 3-D and stereo. With the event of the stereoscope and the theatre, dioramas and panoramas before it, vision and perception in the eighteenth and nineteenth century is seen to be marketed to a mass audience. As such the spectacle of the stereoscope and other optical devices can be seen as a precursor to mass media dissemination today.

Yet artists use the stereoscope and VR to signify the spectacle, clairvoyance, vision and the mechanism of vision as well as a symbol for the act of looking, being looked at while looking and the gaze within an art new media practice.

Other artists have used 3-D and virtual reality to address themes such as theories of consciousness or embodied consciousness, the human – machine relationship and the idea of mapping reality, alternative networked realities.

The book includes an introduction and summary of chapters, 86 anaglyphic 3-D images and presents a survey of artists working in 3-D and virtual reality, VR art. The convergence of other fields such as new media art, video art and early virtual reality art is described through many examples within the scope of the book.

Artists discussed include Mert Akbal, Zoe Beloff , Geoffrey Berliner, Lygia Clark, Dan Graham, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Scott S. Fisher, Rebecca Hackemann, Perry Hoberman, Daniel Iglesia, Ken Jacobs, William Kentridge, Susan MacWilliam, Patrick Meagher, Rosa Menkman, Jim Naughten, Tony Ousler, Alfons Schilling, Joel Schlemowitz, Christopher Schneberger, Judith Sönniken, Ethan Turpin, Aga Ousseinov, Colleen Woolpert.

3-D glasses included with hardback book. 

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rebecca Hackemann is a British/German/American conceptual artist and scholar, who works in a variety of media that are concerned with viewer interaction, optics, 3D, perception and the construction of private and public space. She has published with MIT Press and exhibited her artwork internationally including the Whitney Museum of Art ISP Program. She is Associate Professor of Photography at Kansas State University and holds a PhD from Chelsea College of Art London. She divides her time between London and Kansas City.

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