“What If Digital Information Dies?——An Interactive Experience for Digital Death” presented by Wang, Huang, Guo and Huang
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- Virtual (full papers)
Presentation Title:
- What If Digital Information Dies?——An Interactive Experience for Digital Death
Presentation Subtheme:
- Fourth Summit on New Media Art Archiving
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Abstract:
In the digital age, the concept of mourning has expanded to the digital heritage after the physical demise of individuals. The fundamental question arises: How can we redefine the methods and states in which life persists and mourns in this digital era? This project is proposed to conduct further experiments on the digital death after digital mourning, dialectically exploring the eternity and limitations of digital information in the role of mourning and life realization. We designed and organized a multimedia installation that engages the audience in a ceremony that takes them into a virtual obituary space, using the termination of information to simulate the death of a life by interacting with last words that are not informed of a time limit. We set up a website using Atom and Vue.js, invite people to experience digital death through the website, where users can create their own tombstones and leave their own last words. At the same time, we also used the projector to project the digital cemetery promotional video that we made with AI. And the installation also conducts a participatory study on audience participation in digital mourning of themselves to expand the futurity of this theme.
