Introducing Interrelations Of Madness & Virtuality
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This paper approximates interrelations between representations of madness, and virtuality in Immersive Virtual Environments semiotically. Thereby, social and sensual performances indicating coded acts of practice are mapped, and investigated from several perspectives. The authors give an introduction to these ‘altered states’, and suggest that it is possible to learn from codes and mappings of madness in order to create virtual environments, and learn from codes of virtual environments in order to understand representations of madness.
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