From building blocks to computers: models and modeling -- The game of life: a legendary cellular automaton -- Heads or tails: probability of an event -- Galton's board: probability and statistics -- Twenty questions: probability and information -- Snowflakes: the evolution of dy…
1. Virtual identity : communities of broadcast, communities of interactivity / David Holmes. -- 2. Virtual bodies : virtual worlds / Cathryn Vasseleu. -- 3. Beyond being digital : representation and virtual corporeality / Nicola Green. -- 4. The ontology of digital domains / Chr…
This volume aims to cover the whole spectrum of cyberspace and related new technologies to explore the ways in which new technologies are reshaping cultural forms and practices at the turn of the century.
In this transdisciplinary book, major artists, filmmakers, film theorists, philosophers, literary critics, information theorists and cultural analysts examine the twists and turns of the contesting terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theory in relation …
If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics, networking and digitalizaton, such claims are also being viewed with deep scepticism and countered by renewed interest in the grou…
"Virtual reality is a technological reproduction of the process of perceiving the real, yet that process is filtered through the social realities and embedded cultural assumptions about human bodies and space held by the technology's creators. Digital Sensations looks closely at…
"Virtual reality is a technological reproduction of the process of perceiving the real, yet that process is filtered through the social realities and embedded cultural assumptions about human bodies and space held by the technology's creators. Digital Sensations looks closely at…
This is an introduction to a new type of city, a largely invisible but increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the emerging information superhighway. Practical examples and illustrations are used to examine architecture and urbanism in the context of di…
