Oliver Grau - Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion - sam

Oliver Grau - Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion

The computer's ability to immerse a user in virtual image
spaces is not the revolutionary innovation its protagonists
are fond of interpreting it to be, Grau writes. The
idea of virtual reality only appears to be without a history; in
fact, it rests firmly on historical art traditions. Grau
(lecturer in art history at Humboldt University in Berlin,
associate professor at the Kunstuniversitat Linz in Austria and
leader of the German Science Foundation's project on immersive
art) traces the lineage of virtual reality as far back as the
frescoes of a villa in Pompeii.

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