Virtual Images

Common boundaries between the physical reality and rising digital media technologies are fading. The age of hyper-reality becomes an age of hyper-aesthetics. Immersive media as well as image technologies - like virtual reality - enable a completely novel form of interaction and corporeal relation to and with the virtual image structures. >VR Images< contributes="" to="" the="" wide="" range="" of="" the="" hyper-aesthetic="" image="" discourse="" to="" connect="" the="" concept="" of="" dynamic="" virtual="" images="" with="" the="" approaches="" in="" modern="" media="" theory,="" philosophy,="" perceptual="" theory,="" aesthetics,="" computer="" graphics,="" art="" history="" and="" techno-art="" as="" well="" as="" the="" complex="" range="" of="" image="" science.="" shared="" goal="" is="" a="" critical="" discussion="" of="" the="" specific="" epistemology="" of="" aesthetic="" and="" scientific="" approaches="" to="" vr.="" this="" volume="" discusses="" the="" relation="" of="" images="" and="" technological="" evolution="" in="" the="" context="" of="" virtual="" reality="" within="" the="" perspective="" of="" an="" autonomous="" image="">