The Magic Features of the Audiovisual Immersive Environments

Audiovisual environments have been explored by artists, scientists, writers, designers, engineers, and others, to create augmented realities and temporary autonomous spaces for a long time. The constant evolution of new media technologies gives the creators better tools each day, that allow them to converge the existing physical spaces with the virtual, the digital and the imaginary ones. The magical features of these environments attracts humans since long before the new media technologies. The need to understand the Universe is a human characteristic, as is to understand its rules and functionalities, be able to break them and create new worlds. "The fantasy of being transported into another world, to be taken wholly into the imaginary real, is a primal desire".[Packer and Jordan,2001.p.XXII]. This fantasy exists since ancestral times till nowadays, crossing time, civilizations and technologies. It is embedded in human conscience and it is present in a wide range of fields, from literature, science, visual art, cinema. In the research on media archeology we find throughout history a huge range of immersive media techniques, tools and mechanisms ,used to create audiovisual illusions and immersive states, that propelled many of the actual new media technologies.