Virtual Interiorities

Contemporary virtual reality is often discussed in terms of popular consumer hardware. Yet the virtual we increasingly experience comes in many forms and is often more complex than wearable signifiers.This three-volume collection of essays examines the virtual beyond the headset. Virtual Interiorities offers multiple sometimes unexpected entry points to virtuality-theme parks video games gyms pilgrimage sites theater art installations screens drones film and even national identity. What all these virtual interiorities share are compelling cultural perspectives on distinct moments of environmental collision and collusion liminality and shifting modes of inhabitation which challenge more conventional architectural conceptions of space.Senses of Place and Space steps beyond environments to look more closely at inhabitation time non-space and placelessness. Each piece gathered in this final volume touches on how we exist-or might exist-in emerging virtual constructs as well as how those constructs shift our perceptions through fluidity pervasiveness and altered vantages.