VR and AR technologies (September 2023)

This selection of book titles aimed to contextualise VR and AR technologies used in the exhibitions Aay Liparoto: Small Acts Of Violence and Azam Masoumzadeh: Glad That I Came, Not Sorry To Depart.

The selection offers an impression of how researchers and artists looked at the interactive and the educational possibilities of VR and AR technologies at the turn of the 21st century and presents an ever-evolving definition of ‘new media’. Exploring different approaches, characteristics and roles for VR within various audiovisual practices, it spans close to a quarter of a century of research on 360° and immersive filmmaking processes.

• Changing Space: Virtual Reality as an Arena of Embodied Being - Char Davies (p.145-155, in: The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture, 1998)
• Virtual reality - Tautological Oxymoron - Malcolm Le Grice (p. 227-236, in: new screen media: cinema/art/narrative, 2002)
• Artificial Nature and Natural Artifice - Philippe Codognet (p. 462-465, in: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, 2003)
• Media Art in the Third Dimension: Stereoscopic imaging and contemporary art - Erkki Huhtamo (p. 466-473, in: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, 2003)
• Unheimlich Maneuver : Self-Image and Identificatory Practice In Virtual Reality Environments - Alice Crawford (p. 237-255, in: Eloquent Images : Word and Image in the Age of New Media, 2003)
• Writing a story in virtual reality - Josephine Anstey (p.283-304, in: Eloquent Images : Word and Image in the Age of New Media, 2003)
• Virtual Reality - Michael Rush (p.233-239, in: New Media in Art, 2005)
• Learning by Doing and Learning Through Play: an exploration of interactivity in virtual environments for children - Maria Roussou (p. 247-265, in: Museums in a digital age, 2010)
• Interactive Abstractions: Between Embodied Exploration and Instrumental Control “Underneath Your Fingertips” - Katja Kwastek (p. 145-160, in: Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary art, 2015)
• From Ethnographic to Virtual World Making - Royce Ng and Daisy Bisenieks (p. 120-127, in: Trading Zones: Camera Work in Artistic and Ethnographic Research, 2022)