Digital Places and Spaces: Imagination, Presence, Affect, Information

Explores the past, present, future of reality in relation to digital places and spaces, in theory and in practice. Contemporary technologies of placemaking, wandering, and wayfinding, as well as theories of exhibition, virtual travel, digital twinning, extended reality, telepresence, and exploration. Historical precursors and material analogues, including imagined places, psychogeographies, and counterfactuals. Digital realms as third spaces, sites of cultural memory, activism, and identity. Intersections with media, art history, architecture, urbanism, film, literary study, sound, installation. Geography, virtual worlds, games, generative AI. Creation, adaptation, transformation, and critique.