{"id":158,"date":"2025-09-15T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/?p=158"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:48:31","slug":"acutus-virtualis-printed-bodies-virtual-worlds-revisiting-de-humani-corporis-fabrica-of-andreas-vesalius-in-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/abstracts\/acutus-virtualis-printed-bodies-virtual-worlds-revisiting-de-humani-corporis-fabrica-of-andreas-vesalius-in-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"ACUTUS VIRTUALIS: Printed Bodies, Virtual Worlds. Revisiting\u00a0 De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius in VR."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Theodora Rontzova; Zo\u00eb Vandenhende (KU Leuven, Belgium)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What happens when a canonical Renaissance anatomical manuscript meets immersive, social Virtual Reality? Within the framework of the Horizon-funded IMPULSE project (Immersive Digitisation: Upcycling Cultural Heritage towards New Reviving Strategies), our presentation will explore the digitization of De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) at KU Leuven Libraries and its transformation into a shared VR environment that disrupts conventional reading and display methods. By placing the Fabrica in an ergonomic, navigable, multi-user virtual space, we interrogate the manuscript\u2019s form and specifically its cultural legacy. Rather than treating text as static content, we can approach it as a dynamic, multimodal medium \u2013 letters, drawings, and annotations become manipulable elements inviting interaction and reinterpretation by diverse audiences.<\/p>\n<p>This reinterpretation challenges conventional perceptions embedded in early modern book design and opens new pedagogical possibilities, for example through the incorporation of AI-assisted (annotation) tools, layered meaning-making, and artistic remixing by users beyond the medical and historical fields \u2013 extending engagement to art students, designers, and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>By positioning early printed heritage in a playful yet rigorous digital frame, our presentation will illustrate a new mode of critical engagement with print culture \u2013 expanding not only who accesses these materials, but how they are experienced, interpreted, and reimagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodora Rontzova; Zo\u00eb Vandenhende (KU Leuven, Belgium) What happens when a canonical Renaissance anatomical manuscript meets immersive, social Virtual Reality? Within the framework of the Horizon-funded IMPULSE project (Immersive Digitisation: Upcycling Cultural Heritage towards New Reviving Strategies), our presentation will explore the digitization of De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) at KU Leuven Libraries and its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}