Is Life But A Dream?Aesthetic Logic and Critical Examination of Virtual Reality Media
Virtual reality has been part of our lives for many years.With its resurgence accompanied by the robust power of digital infrastructure,it has become a medium redefining users'life experiences and spa-tial perspectives.This resurgence has triggered a distinctive aesthetic experience.The central question sur-rounding this aesthetic experience is not whether virtual objects exist in reality,but how virtual reality as a me-dium virtualizes our everyday sensory and perceptual capacities,enabling us to have perceptual agency in the virtual world.The aesthetic logic of virtual reality media is manifested in immersive aesthetic experiences and computational aesthetic experiences.These experiences,supported by the culture of computational visuality,emphasize that the material world may always be suspended between the body,technology,and aesthetic me-diation.The subject seems to be scrutinizing a world that can be arbitrarily manipulated,but overlooking that they themselves are also considered a part of it.Virtual reality media does not make the world immediately ac-cessible but rather reflects the conditions described by Heidegger as the remaining"technological relation."
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