• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: La beauté tragique: Mapping the Militarization of Spatial Cultural Consciousness
  • Contributor: Nechvatal, Joseph
  • imprint: MIT Press - Journals, 2001
  • Published in: Leonardo
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1162/002409401300052460
  • ISSN: 0024-094X; 1530-9282
  • Keywords: Computer Science Applications ; Music ; Engineering (miscellaneous) ; Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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  • Description: <jats:p> The author investigates the militarization of immersive cultural consciousness, as initiated by the aerial bombardment of civilians at Guernica and during World War II. Parallel to this trend he observes an ambient-immersive impetus in post-war art, which he traces in the example of the Espace group, and in the currently developing technology of virtual reality. </jats:p>