8924 Media Ecology, Laureano Ralon, interview with Michael R. Heim

Figure/Ground’s exercise in academic journalism continues with an interview with Michael R. Heim, author and educator. Known as “the philosopher of cyberspace”, Heim’s three scholarly books – Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (Yale University Press, 1986), The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (Oxford University Press, 1993), and Virtual Realism (Oxford University Press, 1998) – have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He taught at Missouri Western University in the 1980s, was an online lecturer for Connected Education in the mid-1980s, and taught at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, 1995-2002. Heim is currently a lecturer at the University of California,
Irvine.

http://figureground.ca/interviews/michael-heim/

Upcoming interview: Frank E. X. Dance

Please direct comments and feedback to laureano@alumni.sfu.ca

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