This original and timely collection features writings from international contributors who specialize in digital art and performance practices (including Johannes Birringer, Robert Weschler and Philip Auslander). There are few writings per se that attempt to interrogate the interaction between new te
Embodying Data: Chinese Aesthetics, Interactive Visualization and Gaming Technologies
โ Scribed by Qi Li
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore;Springer
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 200
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
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.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Introduction (Qi Li)....Pages 1-16
Overview of Data Visualization (Qi Li)....Pages 17-47
Data Visualization and Aesthetics (Qi Li)....Pages 49-72
Data-Based Digital Art Practice (Qi Li)....Pages 73-86
Theoretical Framework (Qi Li)....Pages 87-114
Methodology (Qi Li)....Pages 115-138
Taoist Data Visualization (Qi Li)....Pages 139-170
Future Research (Qi Li)....Pages 171-182
โฆ Subjects
Philosophy; Aesthetics; Digital Humanities; Interaction Design
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