Real Virtuality: Creating the next normal with the crutches of technology
Real Virtuality: Creating the next normal with the crutches of technology
We are blaming it on the virus. But it seems, in hindsight, as if we were anticipating this moment in time, when we could be forced to withdraw from other fellow beings. The proof is the technologies and devices we invented. On the surface, they may have seemed to be about more sociability, but it was always harbouring its invisible other, the asociability of it all.
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10/18
VITAMIN CLOWN, GERMANY
Clinic clown ‘Vitamins’ (real name Ute von Koerber) conjures up surprises and humours 11-year-old Pauline online, who is recovering at a hospital in Cottbus, Germany. In 2012, Ute co-founded the association Lachen hilft e.V. She combines play, improvisation and therapy to help heal ailing patients