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Beschreibung
Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gardens before them, these virtual environments express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial experiences they afford. Drawing on the emerging field of embodied cognition, this book explores the dynamic interplay between mind, body, and environment that sits at the heart of spatial communication. To capture the wide diversity of forms that spatial expression can take, the book builds a comparative analysis of twelve video games across four types of space, spanning ones designed for exploration and inhabitation, kinetic enjoyment, enacting a situated role, and enhancing perception. Together, these diverse virtual environments suggest the many ways that video games enhance and extend our embodied lives.
Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gardens before them, these virtual environments express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial experiences they afford. Drawing on the emerging field of embodied cognition, this book explores the dynamic interplay between mind, body, and environment that sits at the heart of spatial communication. To capture the wide diversity of forms that spatial expression can take, the book builds a comparative analysis of twelve video games across four types of space, spanning ones designed for exploration and inhabitation, kinetic enjoyment, enacting a situated role, and enhancing perception. Together, these diverse virtual environments suggest the many ways that video games enhance and extend our embodied lives.
Zusammenfassung
Gregory Whistance-Smith, Registered Architect and Independent Scholar, Edmonton, Canada.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Geschichte, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: XI
262 S.
83 s/w Illustr.
83 b/w ill.
ISBN-13: 9783110723571
ISBN-10: 3110723573
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Whistance-Smith, Gregory
Hersteller: Oldenbourg
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, D-10785 Berlin, productsafety@degruyterbrill.com
Abbildungen: 83 b/w ill.
Maße: 230 x 155 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Gregory Whistance-Smith
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2022
Gewicht: 0,526 kg
Artikel-ID: 120308887