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s are an example of an early 21st-century post-convergent medium. Virtual worlds present a complex matrix of interdependent relationships among such media elements as sound, vision, network, time, interactivity, and other prior technologies. In this view, no individual media element comprising virtual worlds exists without the others and all affect each other, albeit not equally. Although this complex system contains many types of media, a user may choose to focus on only a single aspect, such as streaming an audio file. The potential for a rich engagement within and between agents within a medium that is best characterized as

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

’s network of relations between differential velocities that are not distinguished by form or functionality and Anna Munster’s differential relations between embodiment and technics, in which both artist/composer and user become nodes in this interdependent network, satisfying

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’s test of successful observability and backward and forward presence at different Levels of Abstraction.

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 305. Proceedings of the 4th Australasian conference on Interactive entertainment
Adam Nash, 2007.
Seven Theses on the Concept of Post Convergence
Justin Clemens and Adam Nash, 2010. {{DEFAULTSORT:Post-Convergent Visual arts media New media art