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.
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
CYBER SINGER, FRANCE
Japanese virtual singer Hatsune Miku—an animated 16-year-old with saucer eyes and lengthy aquamarine pigtails—performs on stage during a concert at the Zenith concert hall, in Paris. One of Japan’s most famous pop stars, Miku is a singing voice synthesiser featured in over 100,000 songs and has performed sold-out 3D concerts worldwide. Miku has gone from being a vocal synthesiser to a collaboratively built cyber celebrity with a global user community
