The New Virtuality: A Creative Website on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal

Jenna Pei-Suin Ng; Oliver Tomkins

doi:10.32920/ifmj.v3i2.1771

The New Virtuality: A Creative Website on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal

Jenna Pei-Suin Ng, Oliver Tomkins

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

Abstract

Our multimedia website project, “The New Virtuality”, explores the implications of highly realistic images that interact and socialise with human users, often seemingly “live” in real‑time. Created with imaging technologies such as holographic projection or virtual reality (VR) and usually boosted by AI and machine learning, we argue that these images present unprecedented directions in understanding how reality, liveness and presence are discerned and believed. Radically breaking down differences between real and unreal, they point to an era of blurred boundaries, dematerialization and limbic spaces which converges visual media with twenty-first century politics of dis/misinformation, post-truth and deep fakery. In this project, we discuss this era as “the new virtuality.”

Original language	English
Article number	1771
Number of pages	9
Journal	Interactive film and media journal
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v3i2.1771
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2023

Keywords

creative making
virtuality
unreal
hybridity
screen media

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1 Invited talk

On Spirit and Matter: Digital media’s virtuality of bodies, irreducibility of being and irretrievability of me
Jenna Pei-Suin Ng (Keynote/plenary speaker)
4 Jun 2024 → 5 Jun 2024
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XR stories
Murphy, D. T., Higson, A. D. & Ursu, M.
AHRC
8/10/18 → 31/03/24
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The New Virtuality: A Creative Website on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal

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