Introduction to:Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances Following, the reader will find an extensive proem to Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances, a generously illustrated synthetic exploration of art histories, cultural ideologies and metaphysical ontologies based on the principal defining characteristic of Virtual Reality (VR): immersion. The primary explanatory goal of the research conducted here into immersive [...]
The Panopticon The Panopticon of Jeremy Bentham is an architectural figure which "incorporates a tower central to an annular building that is divided into cells, each cell extending the entire thickness of the building to allow inner and outer windows. The occupants of the cells . . . are thus backlit, isolated from one another [...]