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... people interact in them, where everyone moves freely as long as their interests and ideas can be tagged and mined as data. This chapter ends with analyses of Bodies . . . the Exhibition and Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. social media Downtown Project immersive experience augmented space...

... migrant laborers caught up in the politics of ethnic nationalism of the late apartheid era and in the stresses of a diminishing labor market. While the ngoma body-voice summarizes this history of work, it is not only about commentary. Sensory immersion in the experience of performing offers...

... tracks the history of the word transduction in acoustics as well as, more recently, in the field of sound studies. It contrasts “transduction” to “immersion,” which is often employed to describe a putatively unmediated experience of sound. Arguing that the material mediation of sound—and vibration...

... Chapter 4 narrates the history of VR, explaining how it shifted from a technology that, in the 1980s and 1990s, promised freedom from one’s body to today’s fantasy of embodying another. Central to this reconceptualization of VR is the work of LA-based immersive journalist Nonny de la Peña, who...

...Fantasy of Being Chapter 4 narrates the history of VR, explaining how it shifted from a technology that, in the 1980s and 1990s, promised freedom from one’s body to today’s fantasy of embodying another. Central to this reconceptualization of VR is the work of LA-based immersive journalist...

... materially and formally, to provide a kinetic and kinaesthetic experience of meaning. The paintings and films are each marked by a language of accretion and assemblage, both testaments to processes of flux and becoming, and together they perform the duties of a conduit. In this capacity, they become entry...

... integrating live music, DJ-ing, immersive happenings, and underground film, the Mudd Club became a focal point for a new form of hybrid partying. Mudd Club Steve Mass downtown art scene punk disco CBGB regulars Ann Magnuson, Susan Hannaford, and Tom Scully took over the running of Club 57...