TY - BOOK ID - 65195931 TI - Embodying Data : Chinese Aesthetics, Interactive Visualization and Gaming Technologies PY - 2020 SN - 9811550697 9811550689 PB - Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Information visualization. KW - Data visualization KW - Visualization of information KW - Information science KW - Visual analytics KW - Aesthetics. KW - Humanities—Digital libraries. KW - Graphic design. KW - Digital Humanities. KW - Interaction Design. KW - Beautiful, The KW - Beauty KW - Esthetics KW - Taste (Aesthetics) KW - Philosophy KW - Art KW - Criticism KW - Literature KW - Proportion KW - Symmetry KW - Psychology KW - Radio broadcasting Aesthetics KW - Aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65195931 AB - This book investigates a new interactive data visualisation concept that employs traditional Chinese aesthetics as a basis for exploring contemporary digital technological contexts. It outlines the aesthetic approach, which draws on non-Western aesthetic concepts, specifically the Yijing and Taoist cosmological principles, and discusses the development of data-based digital practices within a theoretical framework that combines traditional Taoist ideas with the digital humanities. The book also offers a critique of the Western aesthetics underpinning data visualisation, in particular the Kantian sublime, which prioritises the experience of power over the natural world viewed at a distance. Taoist philosophy, in contrast, highlights the integration of the surface of the body and the surface of nature as a Taoist body, rather than promoting an opposition of mind and body. The book then explores the transformational potential between the human body and technology, particularly in creating an aesthetic approach spanning traditional Chinese aesthetics and gesture-based technology. Representing a valuable contribution to the digital humanities, the book helps readers understand data-based artistic practices, while also bringing the ideas of traditional Chinese aesthetics to Western audiences. In addition, it will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of digital art and data visualisation seeking new models. . ER -