Research on the Mixed Properties of Space and Body in Virtual Reality Art

Abstract

Based on the embodied perspective, this study aims to further explore the ways and characteristics of the integration of virtual reality art space and the heterogeneity of participant bodies. Combining concepts such as virtuality, whole-body immersion, non locality, hyperspace, and utopia, this study examines the pioneering and exploratory works of early virtual reality artists. It can be observed that while the perceptual space of participants is expanded by virtual reality art, they actively involve the materiality of their bodies. At this time, the virtual reality art space is a mixed art space of virtual and reality, and the participants' bodies are also virtualized in the process of experiencing and constructing this space, becoming an open utopia with virtual potential. Virtual reality art is still in the evolutionary stage, and the key to its direction is the participants' bodies that are both virtual and real.