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…
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Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or novel? What are the new possibilities for representation offered by the emerging technology of virtual reality? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in Narrative as Virtual Reality,…
Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or novel? The author demonstrates in this book that the questions raised by new, interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic t…
Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or novel? The author demonstrates in this book that the questions raised by new, interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic t…
Examining the cultural and social impact of new digital technologies, Levy tackles the concept of "the virtual," clearly defining it alongside "the real," "the actual," and "the possible." He shows how the body, the text, and the economy, are made virtual. He then reveals how th…
This text offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, it seeks to 'materialize' digital culture by demonstrating that its aesthetics have reconfigu…
This text offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, it seeks to 'materialize' digital culture by demonstrating that its aesthetics have reconfigu…
We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles…
N. Katharine Hayles explores how the impact of code on life has become comparable to that of speech and writing - as language and code have grown entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital and old technologies from new ones have become blu…
We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles…
"The BIM Handbook presents the technology and processes behind BIM and how architects, engineers, contractors and sub-contractors, construction and facility owners (AECO) can take advantage of the new technology and work process. Unlike CAD, BIM is a major paradigm shift in the …
"The BIM Handbook presents the technology and processes behind BIM and how architects, engineers, contractors and sub-contractors, construction and facility owners (AECO) can take advantage of the new technology and work process. Unlike CAD, BIM is a major paradigm shift in the …
"The BIM Handbook presents the technology and processes behind BIM and how architects, engineers, contractors and sub-contractors, construction and facility owners (AECO) can take advantage of the new technology and work process. Unlike CAD, BIM is a major paradigm shift in the …
Almost all aspects of social, cultural, economic and political life stand to be affected by the new electronic technologies. Virtual Society? is one vision of the consequential impact of these technologies. But to what extent and in what ways are the Internet and other electroni…
Almost all aspects of social, cultural, economic and political life stand to be affected by the new electronic technologies. Virtual Society? is one vision of the consequential impact of these technologies. But to what extent and in what ways are the Internet and other electroni…
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Almost all aspects of social, cultural, economic and political life stand to be affected by the new electronic technologies. Virtual Society? is one vision of the consequential impact of these technologies. But to what extent and in what ways are the Internet and other electroni…