AN-ICON. Studies in Environmental Images [ISSN 2785-7433]

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AN-ICON. Studies in Environmental Images

The journal AN-ICON. Studies in Environmental Images is a peer-reviewed web-based academic journal, stemming from the ERC Advanced project “AN-ICON. An-Iconology: History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images”.

The journal aims to set out a groundbreaking interdisciplinary research field addressing the key challenges raised by the rapidly evolving contemporary mediascape, focussing in particular on the emergence of what can be defined as environmental images, namely an-icons.

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CurrentVol 1, No II (2022): Just an illusion? Between simulation, emulation, and hyper-realism

Pietro Conte, Lambert Wiesing
Salvatore Tedesco
Francesco Restuccia
Francesco Zucconi
Philippe Bédard
Marcin Sobieszczanski
Valentina Bartalesi, Anna Calise
Jane Y. Zhang

Matteo Vegetti

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Simulated virtual environments can elicit in the users a strong feeling of “being there” (place illusion), making them feel as if they control a body different from their own (body-ownership illusion) and react to virtuality analogously to physicality (plausibility illusion). Accordingly, a debate is gaining traction in different scientific fields about how the notion itself of illusion is to be interpreted within the contemporary mediascape. Does it imply an unconscious deception accomplished through a false perception, or is it rather a lusory attitude adopted in a peculiar kind of make-believe relation? What is the difference between illusion, deception, and hallucination? How does illusion turn into deception? How does deception become illusion?

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