Week 9 Questions by Shabnam
The ‘Worlds’ paradigm demonstrated in Scott Lucas’ book, moves from the real world (our reality) to the Created World (escapes reality) and the next level being the ‘experienced world’. The major technological shift is in the way the audience actively engages with the world, bringing to the experience cultural idiosyncrasies.
Q – Like Film, how is New Media developing a Universal Language and Grammar that transcends cultural boundaries and experiences?
Matt, further to your concerns, I had the question of preserving artistic works created in AR/ VR. How is New Media developing its network/ technologies for Archiving ‘cult’ works created in the new medium? Transition of Film from linear to non-linear to digital has been gradual and seamless in a way, but the changes in the spectrum of New Media are tremendous and very fast. Therefore, What will be, or IS the sustaining technology to preserve such works, whose platforms disappear even before they can be significantly established? E.g. CD- Rom
The collective participation and engagement in world building produces a more eclectic and visceral World, as done in the World Building Lab at USC school. The process of synergy in research, data collection and imagination is fascinating. When does this fictional exploration (future projection) rooted in facts and figures become a reality? I’m also contemplating whether the technology comes first or the idea? How may I create new technology which supports the creation of my idea/ concept? Is technological innovation an accident, a by-product of the search for the right medium of expression or merely a tool to explore my idea?
Looking at apps like Serial Box and other such ‘short story telling’ apps (few seconds), Are new technologies fuelling the already shortened attention span of viewers? How can such technologies do the reverse?