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What happens when the border between illusion and reality is erased; when the spectators and actors no longer have distinct roles and the audience can physically enter the artwork and take an active role in the process?
This is the subject of a new dissertation in the discipline: Digital Representation from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Magali Ljungar-Chapelon, who has a background in the performing arts, is a doctorate student in Digital Representation at the School of Photography at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In her research, she has studied the experiences that arise in the borderland between digital performance and installation.
This doctoral project brings to the fore the specificity of the artistic experience when the Virtual Reality Cube, a medium based on immersive virtual reality technology, is used as artistic virtual space.
- With Virtual Reality and digital media, it is possible to create imaginary worlds and artworks that physically immerse the audience. Both artist and spectators can enter the artwork and become participants "on stage". But what happens within the artwork are mere illusions created by three-dimensional artefacts, illusions created by animation, says Magali-Ljungar Chapelon.
Magali Ljungar-Chapelon coins the term that characterises this kind of immersive journey between illusion and reality: a VR arts play (a Virtual Reality arts play).
In her research project, Magali Ljungar-Chapelon has created such a VR artwork in the Virtual Reality Cube at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Audience surveys show that the respondents, both children and adults, thought that this type of VR artwork opens up ways to new experiences and crossovers between different artistic forms of expression and computer games.
- What appears as the most unique aspect of the experience, in the eye of the spectator, is the opportunity to experience fictive, imaginary worlds and characters that cannot be represented by other means than through an immersive virtual reality medium, says Magali Ljungar-Chapelon.
This dissertation consists of three integrated parts: a written thesis, a VR arts play called Le Beau, le Laid, le Bon et le Mauvais, (The Beautiful, the Ugly, the Good and the Bad) and a DVD, which illustrates the text, the production process of the VR work, and which also presents an interpretation of the research results in filmic and photographic form.
Pictures and the film about the artwork, which was created together with the photographer Sandra Andersson, will be presented at the public defence.
The dissertation is the first at the School of Photography and is the result of a long-term, interdisciplinary collaboration between the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
http://gupea.ub.gu.se/dspace/handle/2077/18849?locale=en
Picnic inside the VR-cube while playing the Arts play.
Virtual reality cube
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