Reflexive design of the recursive space of virtual worlds

MacGRID Art and Cyberscience Network as an example of mediated urbanism

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ID12898458
AuthorsDavid Harris Smith (McMaster University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume75
Issue5-6
Pages452-469
Publication date2013-07-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Communication Gazette (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1748-0485 • E-ISSN: 1748-0493
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1748048513491893
OpenAlexW2057757383
LanguageEN
References cited19

This article considers the intersection of urbanism and digital culture to theorize a model of mediated urbanism and its application to a designed virtual world for artistic and scientific collaboration. Historical precedents informing the current research include artist networks of the late 1960s and early 1970s that sought to bridge and democratize scientific, technological, and artistic endeavors. The author proposes that mediated urbanism in the reflexive recursive space of virtual worlds references and reworks embodied forms of urbanism and fosters the development of new urbanite forums. The awareness of the nature and history of this articulation may be productively used to inform the design of these emerging virtual forums of knowledge production and artistic creation

Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Human–computer interaction · Intersection (aeronautics · Metaverse · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Urbanism · Virtual reality · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Art, Technology, and Culture · Computer Science · Engineering · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Architecture

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