Hybrid Reality on the Couch
Symposium:
- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Hybrid Cultures
Presentation Title:
- Hybrid Reality on the Couch
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Panel: Hybrid Cultures
This talk will take a critical view on the blurring of boundaries between virtual worlds and real life experience. The focus will concentrate on a concept of reality that encourages the re-enactment of highly traumatic memories within the visual framework of 3D-virtualisations as suggested by the therapeutic simulation program Virtual Iraq. Here the complex process of memory, imagination and suppression is confronted with its translation into the aesthetics of a computer game. In another work, Harun Farocki’s analytic video installation Immersion, 2009, the merging of images between virtual worlds and real life experience is questioned by deliberately separating the virtual and the real.