The post-screen through virtual reality, holograms and light projections : where screen boundaries lie / Jenna Ng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ng, Jenna, author.

Series:

MediaMatters.

MediaMatters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multimedia systems--Psychological aspects.

Multimedia systems.

Reality.

Perception (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Screens are ubiquitous today. They display information; present image worlds; are portable; connect to mobile networks; mesmerize. However, contemporary screen media also seek to eliminate the presence of the screen and the visibilities of its boundaries. As what is image becomes increasingly indistinguishable against the viewer's actual surroundings, this unsettling prompts re-examination about not only what is the screen, but also how the screen demarcates and what it stands for in relation to our understanding of our realities in, outside and against images. Through case studies drawn from three media technologies - Virtual Reality; holograms; and light projections - this book develops new theories of the surfaces on and spaces in which images are displayed today, interrogating critical lines between art and life; virtuality and actuality; truth and lies. What we have today is not just the contestation of the real against illusion or the unreal, but the disappearance itself of difference and a gluttony of the unreal which both connect up to current politics of distorted truth values and corrupted terms of information. <i>The Post-Screen through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie</i> is thus about not only where the image's borders and demarcations are established, but also the screen boundary as the instrumentation of today's intense virtualizations that do not tell the truth. In all this, a new imagination for images emerges, with a new space for cultures of presence and absence, definitions of object and representation, and understandings of dis- and re-placement - the post-screen.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Post-Screen Media: Meshing the Chain Mail

Eroding Boundaries in the Contemporary Mediascape

Why Boundaries Matter

Chapter Outlines

The Post-what?

1. Screen Boundaries as Movement

Re-placing the Screen: Play and Display, Appearance and ­Dis-­appearance

Screen Boundaries: Physical and Virtual, and of the Movement Betwixt

Metaphors for the Screen

Crossing Screen Boundaries: Love, Pleasure, Information, Transformation

Interactivity and the Moveable Window

Screen Boundaries Across Dimensions

2. Leaking at the Edges

Protections and Partitions

Rupturing Screen Boundaries

Interplay between Fictional and Factual Threat

Leaking at the Edges: The Merging of the Amalgamated Real

Virtual Co-location in Real-time… and in the Era of Covid-19

The Screen Boundary Against the Algorithm

Screen Boundaries in Flux

3. Virtual Reality: Confinement and Engulfment

Replacement and ­Re-placement

"Multitudes of Amys"

On Immersion (Briefly)

The Affective Surround: The Two Vectors of Immersion

The Post-Screen Through VR (1): Confinement and Engulfment

The Post-Screen Through VR (2): Replacement and Re-placement

The Danger Paradox

VR as Immersion: Travel, Escape, Fulfilment

VR as Inversion: Witness, Empathy, Subjectivity

Defeated by the Ghosts

4. Holograms/Holographic Projections : Ghosts Amongst the Living

Ghosts of the Living

How We See Ghosts, or, In Love with the Post-Screen

Ghosts in the Media: Re-inventing the Afterlife

The Post-Screen Through Holograms/Holographic Projections

Holographic Projections (1): Ghosts Amongst the Living - Limbo Between Deadness and Aliveness

Holographic Projections (2): Ghosts of the Living - Vivification of the Virtual Real.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Substitution

4A. (Remix) True Holograms: A Different Kind of Screen

A Different Kind of Ghost

Screens and Ghosts, or, the Window and the Guy in the Basement

True Holograms

A Different Kind of Screen: Brains, Nerves, Thought

A Different Kind of Ghost: "A Memory, A Daydream, A Secret," or, Digital Apparitions

5. Light Projections: On the Matter of Light and the Lightness of Matter

The City Rises

The Light Rises, or, Light as the Matter of Light

Cities of Screens

Light Projections (1): Light that Dissolves and Constructs… and of Latency

Light Projections (2): Walls that Fall Apart… and Re-Form

Light Projections (3): Particles that Gain a Body… and Transform

Projection Mapping (1): The Image that Devours Structure

the Voracity that is a Media History

Projection Mapping (2): The Exterior that Reveals

the Permanence that Fades

The Ground Beneath Our Feet

Conclusion/Coda

Postscripts to the Post-Screen: The Holiday and the Global Pandemic

Twin Obsessions (1): Difference

Twin Obsessions (2): The Gluttony

The Post-Screen in the Time of Covid-19

Index

Backcover.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Dec 2021).

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ISBN:

9789048552566

9048552567