Immersive Embodiment Theatres of Mislocalized Sensation /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jarvis, Liam (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology
• Θέματα: Theater.; Performing arts.; Applied Theatre.; Contemporary Theatre.; Performing Arts.

This book offers a wide-ranging examination of acts of 'virtual embodiment' in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersant's sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body-part or computer-generated avatar. Emergent 'immersive' practices in a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Proto-immersive Discourse & the 'Theatrical Condition'
• Chapter 3: The Immersive Promise of Becoming [with] the Other Body
• Chapter 4: Body-swapping: Self-attribution and Body Transfer Illusions (BTIs)
• Chapter 5: 'Empathy Activism' & Bodying Difference in Postdigital Culture: Jane Gauntlett's In My Shoes & BeAnotherLab's The Machine to be Another
• Chapter 6: Touching with a Virtualized Hand: Analogue's Transports
• Chapter 7: The Suffering Avatar: Vicarity & Resistance in Body-tracked Multi-player Gaming
• Conclusion: The Theft of the Dragon Sabre: Bodies at Risk in Digital Reality.