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.
Assistant director Nicolas Babillon calibrates the set-up before a preview of Imagine Van Gogh, an immersive digital art exhibition at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Canada. The event is based on French photographer Albert Plécy‘s concept of ‘image totale’, the feeling of being surrounded by an artwork, to experience their energy, emotion, and beauty