Immersive Embodiment: Theatres of Mislocalized Sensation

This book offers a wide—ranging examination of acts of ‘virtual embodiment’ in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersant’s sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body—part or computer—generated avatar. Emergent ‘immersive’ practices in an increasingly expanding and cross—disciplinary field are coinciding with a wealth of new scientific knowledge in body flownership and self—attribution. A growing understanding of the way a body constructs its sense of s...