虛擬實境科技的發明使得科幻小說情節幻化成真，透過科技中介，人們必須釐清面對此一裝置的感官知覺如何被定義，而虛擬實境的美學正是在討論身體影像(image-bodies)與我們肉身間的互動行為，這個身軀一方面被機械義肢（虛擬實境設備）的沈重感給拖累；與此同時，卻又因沈浸入虛擬空間中的感知給輕盈化，以及那些與我們影像替身(avatar)互動的虛擬景觀。因此，本文試圖從「本體論事件」與「共感聯覺美學」兩大面向探求影像、身體、感知(perception)、再現(representation)與擬像(simulation)的辯證關係，從中建立屬於虛擬實境藝術作品獨特的美學論述。
虛擬實境、本體論事件、共感聯覺美學、新媒體藝術
The invention of virtual reality technology actualizes the scenery of Sci-Fi stories. Through technological intermediation, human beings must clarify how to re-define our sensory receptors and perceptions while encountering this new device. The aesthetics of virtual reality is to discuss the phenomenon of interactive behavior between image-bodies and the corporal body in which the body is weighed down by the heavy feeling of mechanical prostheses (virtual reality devices); at the same time, it is lightened by immersive perception in virtual space, and those virtual landscapes that our avatars (image-bodies) interact with. Therefore, this paper attempts to discuss a unique aesthetic discourse of virtual reality from the perspectives of "Ontological Event" and "(Syn)aesthetics" in order to explore the dialectic relationship between image, body, perception, representation, and simulation.
Virtual Reality, Ontological Event, (Syn)aesthetics, New Media Art
