From: "Pete J. Otis" <virtualart@culture.hu-berlin.de>
Date: September 29, 2003 10:05:42 AM EDT
To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Oliver Grau Interview

"Immersion is produced when a work of art and the image apparatus converge, or when the message and the medium form an almost inseparable unit. In this state, the idea of a finite work, and thus the distance of genres that are perceived as separate, no longer exists. The medium becomes invisible. Immersive art tends to stage moments that can be characterized as Dionysian: exhilaration and intoxication"


A new analysis of the relationship between virtual images and critical distance from the perspective of art and media history is presented in Grau's new book "Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion." A recommendable interview is presented by the Switch Journal.

http://switch.sjsu.edu/~switch/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=273


Pete Otis