The Rendered Arena: Modalities of Space in Video and Computer Games - Couverture souple

Stockburger, Axel

 
9783639207767: The Rendered Arena: Modalities of Space in Video and Computer Games
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639207769 ISBN 13 : 9783639207767
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

This book focuses on the novel spatial paradigms emerging from computer and video games. It presents an original theoretical framework that takes the hybrid nature of the medium into account and aims to extend the present range of methodologies directed towards the analysis of digital games. In order to reveal the critical and transformative power of spatiality in digital games, artistic practice is discussed in this context.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book focuses on the novel spatial paradigms emerging from computer and video games. It presents an original theoretical framework that takes the hybrid nature of the medium into account and aims to extend the present range of methodologies directed towards the analysis of digital games. In order to reveal the critical and transformative power of spatiality in digital games, artistic practice is discussed in this context.

Biographie de l'auteur

Axel Stockburger is an artist and theorist who lives and works in Vienna. He studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with Peter Weibel and holds a PhD from the University of the Arts, London. At present he works at the Department for Visual Arts and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639207769
ISBN 13 
9783639207767
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
172
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Personne responsable
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