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Odyssey Works

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Includes Rick Moody’s extensive interview with Odyssey Works team members as well as six practical proposals that present a radically new unified theory of art making addressing immersivity and interactivity, experience design, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as it relates to documenting artwork, and intimacy and empathy with the audience.

Artist / Author Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 978-1616895150
Reference P2846
Date 2016
Type Publication

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