Immersive Images

  • Paolo S. H. Favero
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Abstract

This chapter deals with immersive images and addresses the way in which a number of contemporary image-based practices (360-degree video and photography; virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) seek to wrap viewers in the image and to blur the distance between viewer and viewed, self and world. Building on a dialogue between phenomenology and art history, this chapter suggests that immersion is an important modality through which human beings, in different times and places, have engaged with the visual world. The chapter addresses immersive images as a form of resistance against the historical hegemony of geometrical perspective and explores some key theoretical challenges in this field: the frame, projection, movement, and visual truth.

Keywords

Immersive images Virtual/augmented/mixed reality Geometrical perspective Phenomenology Frame Projection Visual truth 
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  • Paolo S. H. Favero
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  1. 1.Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)University of AntwerpAntwerpBelgium

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