The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality (Routledge Research in Aesthetics)

This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media. It situates virtual reality media in terms of the philosophy of the arts, comparing them to more familiar media such as painting, film and photography. 
When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always done so through the lens of metaphysics, asking questions about the reality of virtual items and worlds, about the value of such things, and indeed, about how they may reshape our understanding of the "real" world. Grant Tavinor finds that approach to be fundamentally mistaken, and that to really account for virtual reality, we must focus on the medium and its uses, and not the hypothetical and speculative instances that are typically the focus of earlier works. He also argues that much of the cultural and metaphysical hype around virtual reality is undeserved. But this does not mean that virtual reality is illusory or uninteresting; on the contrary, it is significant for the altogether different reason that it overturns much of our understanding of how representational media can function and what we can use them to achieve. 
The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, philosophy of art, philosophy of technology, metaphysics, and game studies.

Computers & Technology

Tavinor, Grant

Games & Strategy Guides

Routledge

Aesthetics Of Virtual Reality

New York, Ny : Routledge, 2022

The Art of Videogames explores how philosophy of the arts theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames. <ul>
<li>Presents a unique philosophical approach to the art of videogaming, situating videogames in the framework of analytic philosophy of the arts</li> <li>Explores how philosophical theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames</li> <li>Written for a broad audience of both philosophers and videogame enthusiasts by a philosopher who is also an avid gamer</li> <li>Discusses the relationship between games and earlier artistic and entertainment media, how videogames allow for interactive fiction, the role of game narrative, and the moral status of violent events depicted in videogame worlds</li> <li>Argues that videogames do indeed qualify as a new and exciting form of representational art</li> </ul>

The Art of Videogames

Wiley/Blackwell

The Art of Videogames explores how philosophy of the arts theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames.  Presents a unique philosophical approach to the art of videogaming, situating videogames in the framework of analytic philosophy of the arts Explores how philosophical theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames Written for a broad audience of both philosophers and videogame enthusiasts by a philosopher who is also an avid gamer Discusses the relationship between games and earlier artistic and entertainment media, how videogames allow for interactive fiction, the role of game narrative, and the moral status of violent events depicted in videogame worlds Argues that videogames do indeed qualify as a new and exciting form of representational art

The Art of Videogames (New Directions in Aesthetics)

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