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Embodying Data - Chinese Aesthetics, Interactive Visualization and Gaming Technologies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Embodying Data - Chinese Aesthetics, Interactive Visualization and Gaming Technologies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book investigates a new interactive data visualisation concept
that employs traditional Chinese aesthetics as a basis for
exploring contemporary digital technological contexts. It outlines
the aesthetic approach, which draws on non-Western aesthetic
concepts, specifically the Yijing and Taoist cosmological
principles, and discusses the development of data-based digital
practices within a theoretical framework that combines traditional
Taoist ideas with the digital humanities. The book also offers a
critique of the Western aesthetics underpinning data visualisation,
in particular the Kantian sublime, which prioritises the experience
of power over the natural world viewed at a distance. Taoist
philosophy, in contrast, highlights the integration of the surface
of the body and the surface of nature as a Taoist body, rather than
promoting an opposition of mind and body. The book then explores
the transformational potential between the human body and
technology, particularly in creating an aesthetic approach spanning
traditional Chinese aesthetics and gesture-based technology.
Representing a valuable contribution to the digital humanities, the
book helps readers understand data-based artistic practices, while
also bringing the ideas of traditional Chinese aesthetics to
Western audiences. In addition, it will be of interest to
practitioners in the fields of digital art and data visualisation
seeking new models.
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