The New Virtuality: A Video Essay on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal
This video essay explores the implications of highly realistic images that appear, interact and socialise with human users, often seemingly “live” in real-time. Through readings of film and media theory, archival research, textual readings (across paintings, digital art, cinema, performance, VR, app...
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| description | This video essay explores the implications of highly realistic images that appear, interact and socialise with human users, often seemingly “live” in real-time. Through readings of film and media theory, archival research, textual readings (across paintings, digital art, cinema, performance, VR, apps and architecture) and media archaeology, the essay argues for virtuality as a multi-paradoxical and discombobulating vacillation: believed yet disbelieved; manipulated yet recognisable; realistic yet fake. This renewed understanding of the virtual also signals the pliability of post-truth and its concomitant challenges to frameworks of disbelief, reliability and certainty. It constitutes the new battleground for understanding the politics of current and future realities and histories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b0f07211c2b74f2482879ab87e399d642023-07-11T18:29:54ZengUWEScreenworks2514-31232023-07-01131https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/12.1/11The New Virtuality: A Video Essay on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and UnrealJenna Ng0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0018-1812Oliver1University of YorkTomkinsThis video essay explores the implications of highly realistic images that appear, interact and socialise with human users, often seemingly “live” in real-time. Through readings of film and media theory, archival research, textual readings (across paintings, digital art, cinema, performance, VR, apps and architecture) and media archaeology, the essay argues for virtuality as a multi-paradoxical and discombobulating vacillation: believed yet disbelieved; manipulated yet recognisable; realistic yet fake. This renewed understanding of the virtual also signals the pliability of post-truth and its concomitant challenges to frameworks of disbelief, reliability and certainty. It constitutes the new battleground for understanding the politics of current and future realities and histories.https://screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-13-1/the-new-virtualityvrvirtual realitydeep fakespost-truth |
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| title | The New Virtuality: A Video Essay on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal |
| title_full | The New Virtuality: A Video Essay on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal |
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| title_short | The New Virtuality: A Video Essay on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal |
| title_sort | new virtuality a video essay on the disappearing differences between real and unreal |
| topic | vr virtual reality deep fakes post-truth |
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