New opportunities for artistic practice in virtual worlds
By: Doyle, Denise
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BookSeries: Publisher: Hershey : Information Science Reference, c2015.Description: xxiv, 322 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9781466683846Subject(s): Machinima films | Computer animation | Virtual reality | Computer art | Video games | Second Life (Game)DDC classification: 777/.7 | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 777.7 DO NE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0051904 |
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| 777.55 KA AV Avid editing : a guide for beginning and intermediate users / | 777.55 RO HE The healthy edit : | 777.7 BE MO Motion graphics : principles and proccesses from the ground up / | 777.7 DO NE New opportunities for artistic practice in virtual worlds | 777.7 EX PE Experimental animation : | 777.709 SI MO Moving innovation : a history of computer animation / | 778.3 DA PH The Photographer's black & white handbook : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Creative practices, theoretical contexts, virtual worlds -- An aesthetics of digital virtual environments / Adam Nash, RMIT University, Australia -- Painting machinima in second life : emerging aesthetics in virtual filmmaking / Phylis Johnson, Southern Illinois University, USA -- Spacing and displacing as artistic enquiry / Taey Iohe, University College Dublin, Ireland -- Avatar, embodiment, identity -- Digital steps of protest, re-enactment and networked interaction : joseph delappe's satyagraha project / Natasha Chuk, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA -- Creating a framework to analyse the perception of selfhood within Second Life / Pete Wardle, University of Salford, UK -- Appearance, absence, art : the objet a-vatar / Garfield Benjamin, University of Wolverhampton, UK -- Found objects, collaborative practices, shared creativity -- Found objects, bought selves / Lynne Heller, OCAD University, Canada / University College Dublin, Ireland -- Moving islands [Rafts] : a collective art conglomeration in second life / Elif Ayiter, Sabanci University, Turkey, Eupalinos Ugajin, Second Life -- Meta body : virtual corporeality as a shared creative process / Catarina de Sousa, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal -- Performance practices in virtual worlds -- "Follow me comrades, in to the depths!" : body-related performance art in Second Life / Maja Murnik, Independent Scholar, Slovenia -- Blended reality performance / Joff Chafer, Coventry University, UK -- SL-Bots : automated and autonomous performance-art in Second life / Jeremy Turner, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Michael Nixon, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Jim Bizzocchi, Simon Fraser University, Canada -- Compilation of references -- About the contributors -- Index.
"This book provides a coherent account of artistic practices in virtual worlds and considers the contribution the Second Life platform has made in a historical, theoretical, and critical context within the fields of art and technology"-- Provided by publisher.