The usual assumption in regards to displayed media is the notion that the real is transported into the virtual world. This is often the case in movies and games when you feel completely absorbed and immersed within the story or the game play.
Contrary to this believe, my experience at the iCinema was the reverse as I felt the virtual environment came to live instead. The Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment or AVIE (UNSW 2009) has the capability to render two-dimensional images and footage into more interactive three-dimensional ones along with the help of the three-dimensional glasses. The illusion is very appealing however it left me feeling dizzy after an extended period.
It is interesting to look at the iCinema as a performance medium in a sense that it has both elements of liveness and mediatized within it. Perhaps Auslander’s theory that we often perceive reality only through the mediation of machines(Auslander, 2008) comes to effect in this case as well.
Bibliography
Auslander, P. (2008). Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. London: Routledge.
UNSW. (2009, April 24). Infrastructure AVIE. Retrieved April 24, 2009, from http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au/projects/infra_avie.html
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