virtual image culture

bibliography on the virtual:  image,  culture

Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion

By Oliver Grau, Gloria Custance

[available at harrow lrc 751.7401 GRA]

Immersive Image Strategies of the Classical World

Sala delle Prospettive

The Birth of Panorama, Camera Obscura…

Intermedia Stages of Virtual Reality

Osmose

Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

By Tom Boellstorff

Published by Princeton University Press, 2008

The Subject and Scope of This Inquiry: Arrivals and departures—Everyday Second Life—Terms of discussion—The emergence of virtual worlds—The posthuman and the human—What this, a book, does.

Prehistories of the virtual–Histories of virtual technology–A personal virtual history–Histories of virtual worlds–Histories of cybersociality research–Techne.

How We Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles, published by the University of Chicago Press. ©1999

Excerpts from pages xi-xiv

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