Michael Heim: The Notion of 'Flow' in Virtual Environments

Michael Heim develops concepts for cyberspace and virtual reality. Wired magazine described Heim's work as "a warm-hearted, cool-headed meditation on computer technology." Library Journal said, "This is Marshall McLuhan with a solid grounding in philosophy." Heim's writings have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Polish, and German. His books include Electric Language (Yale University Press, 1987, 2 nd ed. 1999), The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (Oxford University Press, 1993), and Virtual Realism (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Michael Heim has presented his concepts in many venues including: the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, SIGGRAPH '95, the Banff Center for the Arts, the PowerPlant Gallery in Toronto, the Netherlands Institute for Design, the Incident in Switzerland, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the Ringling School of Design, UNESCO in Rio de Janeiro, Princeton University, the IIE in Kyoto, Japan, VRST2000 in Seoul, Korea, and the Doors of Perception conference in Amsterdam. Dr. Heim was the 1997 Visiting Research Professor in the Visual Construction of Reality at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and in 1999 he was Guest Professor at the University of Graz, Austria. He currently teaches Virtual Worlds Theory and Virtual Worlds Design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where in 1995 he received the Great Teacher Award from the graduating class in Computer Graphics and New Media.

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