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Image, Art and Virtuality - Towards an Aesthetics of Relation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Image, Art and Virtuality - Towards an Aesthetics of Relation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book investigates the ontological state of relations in a
unique way. Starting with the notion of system, it shows that the
system can be understood as a relational structure, and that
relations can be assessed within themselves, with no need to
transform relations in elements. "Relations" are understood in
contrast to "relational property": without a relation there is no
identity, therefore no existence. What allows us to do that without
hypostatizing the relation, and without immediately taking it
simply as a causal relation, can be better grasped, possibly, in
reference to a few entities that make best display of their
systemic nature, for example images, works of art, and virtual
bodies. This book shows how virtual bodies are ontological hybrids
representing a type of entity that has never appeared in the world
before. This entity becomes a phenomenon in interactivity and
evades the dichotomy between "external" and "internal"; it is
neither a cognitive product of the consciousness, nor an image of
the mind. The user is well aware of experiencing anotherreality,
also in the sense of a paradoxical reduplication of perceptual
synthesis. The virtual body-environment is therefore simultaneously
external and internal, with virtual bodies-environments to be seen
as artificial windows to an intermediary world. In this
intermediary world, the space itself is the result of
interactivity; the world takes place in the sense or feeling of
immersion experienced by the user; and the body, perceived as
"other", takes upon itself the sense of its reality, of its
effectiveness, as an imaginary and pathic incision, as a production
of desire and emotion, to the point that the feeling of reality
conveyed by a virtual environment will rely significantly on how
this environment produces emotions in the users.
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