Meta space

Abstract

"The metaverse as a virtual parallel world and the next form of the Internet has been a much-discussed topic since the blockchain hype. However, the ability to create and shape worlds with social, real and imaginary spaces can be determined throughout the epochs as an essential part of artistic and scientific debate. The scientific essay volume Meta.space - Visions of Space from the Middle Ages to the Digital Age, which was created parallel to the exhibition in the Francisco Carolinum Linz, is dedicated to this complex of topics from an art historical perspective for the first time in the examination of 75 analogue as well as digital and intermedial artistic positions and thus provides a fundamental contribution to the current Metaverse debates. The framework of content ranges from the thematization of early painterly solutions to pictorial spatial problems from the 15th century and the spatial character of sculptural works to the sensory, scientific and technical development of spaces, to a critical examination of the dystopian and utopian potential of current metaspace concepts. Numerous aspects of analogue and digital spaces in an artistic or art-sociological context are the focus of the contributions by international authors from various disciplines ..."--Provided by publisher.