Absorption’s images: from cinema to digital immersive environments

The text reviews the artistic production of virtual environments to examine the regimes established by imaging devices such as virtual reality, caves and digitals panoramas. The hypothesis guiding the analysis is that these devices establish what could be understood as absorption regimes, linking to a Platonic aesthetic heritage that was present in different ways throughout art history, spanning the Renaissance, the panoramas of the century XVIII, photography, and especially the cinema. To do so, we start from the philosophy Flusser and theorists of immersive environments and hypertextual narratives.