Hyun Cho
<Stranger than Fiction>
VR
13‘00
2017
As digital technologies develop,With the forthcoming of a new digital technology era, one ponders upon/ one’s thoughts are challenged of the changing screen and the images put on it; and the change brought to the relationship between these and the audience. How are our experiences shaped by these changes, and how are we meant to understand this?
When the lights turn off inside the movie theatre, naturally people fall into a congregation of rituals. Their views are replaced by that of the camera, the narrative take them into a world of illusion. The film starts, and the audience are taken from the most fantastical reality to the most realistic fantasy.
New technologies have always infiltrated the every day life and expanded so fast via social media. The history of film is only centennial, yet have gone through a great change in such a short period of time. Looking around from a multiplex, a first run theater, single theatre have become strange ideas. Rolls of films replaced by digitals, and the physicality of films are fading away. When it became something untouchable, it became everyone’s to own, and no more we needed to get lost searching for a spectacle. What will it mean hence, to change the environment of where the movies are played? Will the form of a movie itself change? Or will it co-exist with the old world?
First, simply a way of recording forms, then to get better resolution and sound, people’s desires to recreate the reality more realistically have endlessly expanded without stopping. Now we are already in the screens. Perspectives fixated by cameras are now beyond the frames through VR, the time flowing singularly on a timeline is now become multi-dimensional via the choice of the audience. Where is this desire to recreate more realistically, for a longer amount of time, saving and recreating of more moments, taking us to? And where lies the purpose?
Lastly, this production took off inside a movie theatre, but the story does not stop there. This is about all the stories that are being stored as data, like the digital images.
