Aesthetics of Hallucination: Ontology of Visual Kaleidoscopes From the Age of Myth to Virtual Reality
Author:
Cuevas SandraORCID,
Thompson ReynaldoORCID,
Mukhopadhyay Tirtha
Abstract
Throughout this text we will analyze some human concerns that are the subject of analysis in different fields of knowledge such as philosophy, art, science and technology. These concerns revolve around what is reality? what is fiction? what are the effects of hallucination? and what is virtuality? through different cultural products such as art, literature, cinema, psychoactive or entheogenic experiences, up to the most recent proposals of Virtual Reality and their forms of interaction. We will try to envision and propose new ways of perceiving reality, seeking a balance between the real and the virtual world. We will take a tour from the way we process reality and create fictions around it, to the illusionism that has constituted an important part of our search for consciousness, mediating between rationality and experimentation in the construction of new realities to finally make a proposal on Virtual Reality based on the therapeutic use of hallucinogens.
Publisher
Fundacio per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Subject
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Computer Science Applications,Visual Arts and Performing Arts,Cultural Studies