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The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections

Where Screen Boundaries Lie

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-94-6372-354-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 28.11.2021
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Screens are ubiquitous today. Yet contemporary screen media eliminate the presence of the screen and diminish the visibility of its boundaries. As the image becomes indistinguishable from the viewer’s surroundings, this unsettling prompts re.examination of how screen boundaries demarcate. Through readings of three media forms – Virtual Reality; holograms; and light projections – this book develops new theories of the surfaces on and spaces in which images are displayed. Interrogating contemporary contestations of reality against illusion, it argues that the disappearance of difference reflects shifted conditions of actuality and virtuality in understanding the human condition. These shifts further connect to the current state of politics by way of their distorted truth values, corrupted terms of information, and internalizations of difference. The Post.Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections thus thinks anew the image’s borders and delineations, evoking the screen boundary as an instrumentation of today’s intense virtualizations which do not tell the truth. In the process, a new imagination for images emerges for a gluttony of the virtual; for new conceptualizations of object and representation, materiality and energies, media and histories, real and unreal; for new understandings of appearances, dis-appearances, replacement and re.placement – the post-screen.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789463723541
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-94-6372-354-1
  • Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 28.11.2021
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2021
  • Serie: MediaMatters
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 580 g
  • Seiten: 282
  • Format (B x H x T): 156 x 235 x 15 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Jenna Ng is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Film and Interactive Media at the University of York, UK. She writes on digital media and visual culture. She is also the editor of Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (2013).

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Post-Screen Media: Meshing the Chain Mail

Eroding Boundaries in the Contemporary Mediascape

Why Boundaries Matter

Chapter Outlines

The Post-what?

1 Screen Boundaries as Movement

Re-placing the Screen: Play and Display, Appearance and Dis-Appearance

Screen Boundaries: Physical and Virtual, and of the Movement Betwixt

Metaphors for the Screen

Crossing Screen Boundaries: Love, Pleasure, Information, Transformation

Interactivity and the Moveable Window

Screen Boundaries Across Dimensions

2 Leaking at the Edges

Protections and Partitions

Rupturing Screen Boundaries

Interplay between Fictional and Factual Threat

Leaking at the Edges: The Merging of the Amalgamated Real

Virtual Co-location in Real-time… and in the Era of Covid-19

The Screen Boundary Against the Algorithm

Screen Boundaries in Flux

3 Virtual Reality: Confinement and Engulfment; Replacement and Re-placement

"Multitudes of Amys"

On Immersion (Briefly)

The Affective Surround: The Two Vectors of Immersion

The Post-Screen Through VR (1): Confinement and Engulfment

The Post-Screen Through VR (2): Replacement and Re-placement

The Danger Paradox

VR as Immersion: Travel, Escape, Fulfilment

VR as Inversion: Witness, Empathy, Subjectivity

Defeated by the Ghosts

4 Holograms/Holographic Projections: Ghosts Amongst the Living; Ghosts of the Living

How We See Ghosts, or, In Love with the Post-Screen

Ghosts in the Media: Re-inventing the Afterlife

The Post-Screen Through Holograms/Holographic Projections

Holographic Projections (1): Ghosts Amongst the Living – Limbo Between Deadness and Aliveness

Holographic Projections (2): Ghosts of the Living – Vivification of the Virtual Real

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Substitution

4A (Remix) True Holograms: A Different Kind of Screen; A Different Kind of Ghost

Screens and Ghosts, or, the Window and the Guy in the Basement

True Holograms

A Different Kind of Screen: Brains, Nerves, Thought

A Different Kind of Ghost: "A Memory, A Daydream, A Secret," or, Digital Apparitions

5 Light Projections: On the Matter of Light and the Lightness of Matter

The City Rises

The Light Rises, or, Light as the Matter of Light

Cities of Screens

Light Projections (1): Light that Dissolves and Constructs… and of Latency

Light Projections (2): Walls that Fall Apart… and Re-Form

Light Projections (3): Particles that Gain a Body… and Transform

Projection Mapping (1): The Image that Devours Structure; the Voracity that is a Media History

Projection Mapping (2): The Exterior that Reveals; the Permanence that Fades

The Ground Beneath Our Feet

Conclusion/Coda

Postscripts to the Post-Screen: The Holiday and the Global Pandemic

Twin Obsessions (1): Difference

Twin Obsessions (2): The Gluttony

The Post-Screen in the Time of Covid-19

Index