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Record Nr.

UNINA9910409986603321

Autore

Li Qi

Titolo

Embodying Data : Chinese Aesthetics, Interactive Visualization and Gaming Technologies / / by Qi Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

981-15-5069-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 182 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

001.4226

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Humanities—Digital libraries

Graphic design

Digital Humanities

Interaction Design

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Data Visualisation and Aesthetics: Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- A Traditional Chinese Aesthetics of Data Visualisation -- Implementing the Aesthetic Model -- Taoist Data Visualisation -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .