References

Foundational source for plasmaticness as anti-ossified, mutable form.

Useful bridge text for translating Eisenstein's plasmatic line into a contemporary conceptual vocabulary.

Key source on the digital multitude, morphing bodies, and collective visual form as meaning-bearing structure.

Important for theosophy, subtle metamorphosis, thought-forms, ectoplasm, and the crossover between occult materialization, animation, and cinema.

Supplies a media-poetic bridge between animation, liveliness, and spirit imagery.

Useful for ghost history across phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, Pepper's Ghost, seances, spirit photography, and film rather than collapsing apparition into one mood.

Strong source on phantasmagoria as a darkened, hidden-apparatus optical theater where projected ghosts, sound, and staged anticipation become a modern illusion machine.

Best bridge here from spirit photography and optical trickery into superimposition, trick film, and early cinema ghost imagery.

Useful object-level anchor for phantasmagoria apparatus, including lantern-based projection of frightening images onto walls, smoke, or translucent screens.

Accessible public reference for the reflective Victorian stage technique that lets apparitions share space with live performers.

Primary source for color-coded, vibratory, and radiating visualizations of subtle matter, feeling, and mental projection.

Useful for the craft rule that stylized or magical effects stay believable by following observed forces and underlying energy.

Sharpens the same point through observation, simplification, and shared stylistic cues, making it especially relevant to legible transformation.

Production-history source for the original transporter effect and its serial grammar of dematerialization, shimmer, and rematerialization.

Fan-maintained but useful franchise index for energy beings, cloud forms, host-dependent entities, and other non-corporeal body types across Star Trek.

Useful popular-media precedent for a once-corporeal population continuing as patterned lights and non-corporeal energy that seeks a compatible host body.

Useful popular-media precedent for non-corporeal disguise, false surroundings, sensor-legible illusion, and luminous dematerialization into a humanoid-seeming form.

Useful popular-media precedent for an energy being that assumes corporeal form, especially a flowing and diaphanous humanoid body that stays visibly other than ordinary flesh.

Useful popular-media precedent for a host-dependent mist-like presence that needs an external anchor for molecular cohesion and only partially stabilizes as a body.

Useful popular-media precedent for clouds of glowing blue particles that are inseparable from the larger environment, blending bodyhood with atmosphere and world.

Useful popular-media precedent for a sentient gaseous cloud rendered in warm color gradients, combining diffuse presence with intimate relation to humanoid embodiment.

Method anchor for the site: an integrative framework for embodied experience and design that treats the lived body as a cultivatable medium of perception, action, and self-presentation.

Important HCI translation of somaesthetics into design practice, emphasizing the felt body, somatic awareness, and subtle timing, intensity, and modality choices.

Useful measurement and communication bridge for tactile sensation, including location, frequency, symmetry, modality family, and boundary sharpness or softness on a body silhouette.

The main perceptual anchor for grouping, figure-ground organization, and bodily coherence without full closure.

Classic source showing that sparse moving points can still produce compelling bodily perception.

Canonical computational source for fuzzy, volumetric, temporally evolving form.

Foundational source for emergent collective motion and coordinated many-part behavior.

Early precedent for presence and transformation in spectral bodies.

Compares abstract, mesh-based, and point-cloud avatars as explicit representation variables.

Primary source for avatar appearance feeding back into behavior and self-representation.

Canonical survey for visually induced stiffness, texture, friction, mass, and resistance without dedicated haptic hardware.

Turns pseudo-haptics into a practical design problem, emphasizing plausible visual response, controlled sensory conflict, and system-level cue design.

Useful review of how visual and auditory cues can simulate touch, movement, and force in virtual environments.

An adjacent but useful material-inference precedent showing that participants can discriminate bond stiffness in embodied VR interaction through simulated response.

A key bridge from physics simulation to embodied interactive art, useful for showing how bodily relation can emerge from responsive particle systems.

A strong bridge from real-time molecular simulation into shared VR manipulation, useful for linking danceroom's physics-engine logic to later collaborative and installation-facing systems.

Directly relevant preservation case study for danceroom's reinterpretation through updated depth-video processing, GPU particle simulation, and newer hardware/software dependencies.

Useful preservation-method source for dynamic preservation, reactivation, and migration, helping frame weakly bounded simulation works as changeable systems rather than frozen artifacts.

A close methodological companion to the 2024 paper, useful for documentation and reactivation strategies that treat preservation as a layered process.

Important preservation-theory source for shifting attention from medium fidelity toward behavioral or experiential continuity.

Useful conceptual source for treating digital works as relational objects embedded in technical systems rather than static files.

A reinterpretation-specific conservation source that keeps performativity and restaging in view as artworks change over time.

A direct precedent for aura-like avatars, relational touch metaphors, and abstract embodied interaction.

Useful for thinking about transition, framing, invitation, and return as part of the design itself.

Empirical source on diffuse energetic bodies, self-boundary softening, and connectedness in multi-person VR.

The clearest source here for boundary-softened, weakly representational bodies as designed experiential variables.

Early point-cloud, particle-emission, and mirror-identification precedent for abstract bodies in shared public VR.

Strong theory statement on digital mirrors as a way of owning radically abstract embodied form.

Important for intercorporeality, abstract body swapping, and emergent tactility across real and virtual participants.

Longer account of constellation bodies and shared social encounter through cosmic body form.

Shorter statement of Star-Stuff as an embodied, shared constellation-body encounter.

Useful for the broader connective and interoceptive framing around shared embodied experience.

Context source for Desnoyers-Stewart's later move toward facilitated touch, embodied narrative, and live XR performance.

Context source for immersive-video workflows, ethereal figure treatment, and coherent particle atmosphere.

Useful for expressive nonhuman avatars, second skins, and particle or fur transformations that become more relatable by tracking mannerism and affect.

Supports treating lived body form and psychosomatic experience as clinically meaningful rather than merely symbolic.

Important for placebo-like analgesic effects and embodied virtual intervention in pain research.

Shows that altered body appearance can affect both pain and body-perception disturbance in CRPS.

Classic avatar-pain study on visual body manipulation and pain threshold modulation.

Useful bridge between multisensory embodiment cues, pain treatment, and altered body representation.