Common boundaries between the physical reality and rising digital media technologies are
fading. The age of hyper-reality becomes an age of hyper-aesthetics. Immersive media and image
technologies - like augmented reality - enable a completely novel form of interaction and
corporeal relation to and with the virtual image structures and the different screen
technologies. »Augmented Images« contributes to the wide range of the hyper-aesthetic image
discourse to connect the concept of dynamic augmented images with the approaches in modern
media theory philosophy perceptual theory aesthetics computer graphics and art theory as
well as the complex range of image science. This volume monitors and discusses the relation of
images and technological evolution in the context of augmented reality within the perspective
of an autonomous image science.
