Actor & Avatar : A Scientific and Artistic Catalog / / ed. by Dieter Mersch, Miriam Laura Loertscher, Lorena Kegel, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel
| Actor & Avatar : A Scientific and Artistic Catalog / / ed. by Dieter Mersch, Miriam Laura Loertscher, Lorena Kegel, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel |
| Autore | Mersch Dieter |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina | 006.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Avatars (Virtual reality)
Puppets Robots PHILOSOPHY / General |
| ISBN |
9783839467619
3839467616 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Avatars -- The Avatar -- Prosthethics. Replacement and Exchange -- Avatarhood and Selfhood -- The Self and Its Avatars in Neuropsychiatry -- The Secret Behind the Actor-and-Avatar Fmri-Study -- Avatar’s Faces in EEG -- “Doppeltgänger”. Body Doubles, or the Shadow and His Ego -- The Avatar’s Body in Game Spaces -- The AIS Have It? Hacking into the AI Avatar Dream -- II. Actors -- The Mask -- Creating My Digital Self -- The Birth of a Digital Actor -- Humanizing Virtual People -- Double Trouble. Digital Avatars on Stage -- In Conversation with Neil Newbon -- Facing Characters. A Volumetric Intelligence Framework -- A New Geometry of the Eye. The Curious Case of Brad Pitt -- On Ali Moini’s Avatar Hacking -- “Tears of Truth” -- III. Dolls, Puppets & Uncanny Tracks -- Get into The Uncanny Valley -- The Mechanical Bride and the Ambivalent Pleasures of the Uncanny -- The Mechanical Bride. Realdolls as Companions and Accessible Objects -- Promethean Shame? Pandora Reframes: Elena Dorfman’s Origin of the New World -- The Artist’s Statement -- Encounters of the Uncanny Kind at the Origin of the New World -- Face Fracking -- Sophia’s Smile. The Challenges of a Humanoid Citizen -- I Married a Puppet -- IV. Digital Encounters -- Mask, Face, Countenance -- A Brief Avatar-Network Theory -- Puppets, Pets or Deputies. On the Relationship between Actors and Avatars -- Engaging Consciousness. Time and Duration in Holly Bynoe’s Compounds -- Emotional Ambivalences. Loving and Hating a Tamagotchi -- Consciousness Performed -- Artificial Intelligence. Traditional Expectations and a New Category of Machines -- The Eyes Have It. The Problem of the Avatar Gaze -- What is Koinōnia under Technological Conditions? -- Appendix -- Pictures of the Research Project -- Authors -- Subtexte |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910735579003321 |
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| Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Actor & Avatar : A Scientific and Artistic Catalog / / ed. by Dieter Mersch, Miriam Laura Loertscher, Lorena Kegel, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel
| Actor & Avatar : A Scientific and Artistic Catalog / / ed. by Dieter Mersch, Miriam Laura Loertscher, Lorena Kegel, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina | 006.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Avatars (Virtual reality)
Puppets Robots PHILOSOPHY / General |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Avatars
Film Media Philosophy Media Studies Media Theory Media Neuroscientific Investigations on Perception Philosophy Technological Others |
| ISBN | 3-8394-6761-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Avatars -- The Avatar -- Prosthethics. Replacement and Exchange -- Avatarhood and Selfhood -- The Self and Its Avatars in Neuropsychiatry -- The Secret Behind the Actor-and-Avatar Fmri-Study -- Avatar’s Faces in EEG -- “Doppeltgänger”. Body Doubles, or the Shadow and His Ego -- The Avatar’s Body in Game Spaces -- The AIS Have It? Hacking into the AI Avatar Dream -- II. Actors -- The Mask -- Creating My Digital Self -- The Birth of a Digital Actor -- Humanizing Virtual People -- Double Trouble. Digital Avatars on Stage -- In Conversation with Neil Newbon -- Facing Characters. A Volumetric Intelligence Framework -- A New Geometry of the Eye. The Curious Case of Brad Pitt -- On Ali Moini’s Avatar Hacking -- “Tears of Truth” -- III. Dolls, Puppets & Uncanny Tracks -- Get into The Uncanny Valley -- The Mechanical Bride and the Ambivalent Pleasures of the Uncanny -- The Mechanical Bride. Realdolls as Companions and Accessible Objects -- Promethean Shame? Pandora Reframes: Elena Dorfman’s Origin of the New World -- The Artist’s Statement -- Encounters of the Uncanny Kind at the Origin of the New World -- Face Fracking -- Sophia’s Smile. The Challenges of a Humanoid Citizen -- I Married a Puppet -- IV. Digital Encounters -- Mask, Face, Countenance -- A Brief Avatar-Network Theory -- Puppets, Pets or Deputies. On the Relationship between Actors and Avatars -- Engaging Consciousness. Time and Duration in Holly Bynoe’s Compounds -- Emotional Ambivalences. Loving and Hating a Tamagotchi -- Consciousness Performed -- Artificial Intelligence. Traditional Expectations and a New Category of Machines -- The Eyes Have It. The Problem of the Avatar Gaze -- What is Koinōnia under Technological Conditions? -- Appendix -- Pictures of the Research Project -- Authors -- Subtexte |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996543163003316 |
| Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2023] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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