Die ungerahmte Welt / The Unframed World: Virtuelle Realität als künstlerisches Medium / Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium

A bilingual survey of virtual reality as an artistic medium, issued by the Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel (HeK) in 2017.

The book presents artistic positions that use virtual reality technologies, among them Giulia Bowinkel and Friedemann Banz, Marc Lee, Rachel Rossin and Alfredo Salazar-Caro. The works take up themes such as physical perception and physical laws, societal structures, architecture and poetry. Essays from several research perspectives place the works in the wider development of VR in art. It has 96 pages and 63 colour illustrations, with parallel text in German and English.

The volume is edited by Sabine Himmelsbach for HeK Basel, the Haus der elektronischen Künste. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, published it in June 2017.