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1. The document discusses how virtual reality, augmented reality, and new technologies are being used to imagine alternative futures and create impossible or weird worlds that could exist virtually. 2. It explores how advances may make the real and virtual indistinguishable in the future, and how this could create uncertainty about what is real. 3. Various projects are described that use new technologies to envision potential futures, imagine new perspectives on identity, or rebuild destroyed cultural artifacts through digital means. There is a focus on how creativity can shape uncertainty into a space for possibility.
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Possibilia.pptx
- 1. 1 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE POSSIBILIA POTENTIAL FUTURES & IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS
- 2. 2 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE “If we can visualize the best we can entice it into reality” - Brenda Laurel, Virtual Reality pioneer VR/AR conference in Pittsburgh comprised of artist talks, keynotes & panels. Highly inclusive. Conference ran the gamut on PoC, women, and LGBTQ speakers. Showed how artists and academics are utilizing VR/AR to imagine alternative futures or to create weird or impossible worlds.
- 3. 3 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE IS THIS REAL? DOES IT MATTER? Immersive experiences, advances in photography, virtual reality and even robotics & AI foresee a Future where the real and the virtual indistinguishable. And it’s a world in which we don’t care if we can’t immediately perceive the difference.
- 4. 4 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE “Why should “democratic” politics be thought of as ‘above’ the forces and powers of fantasy, enchantment, passionate sentiments, and drama when these characteristics are so fundamental to the workings of social life? - Gabriella Coleman, ON TRUTH AND LIES IN A PRAGMATIC, PERFORMATIVE SENSE (WITH MY RESPECTS TO NIETZSCHE), AKA: REALITY NEEDS A BETTER PR DEPARTMENT. “Reality needs fantasy to render it desirable, just as fantasy needs reality to make it believable.” - Stephen Duncombe in Dream: Progressive Politics in the Age of Fantasy
- 5. 5 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE The Politics of Uncertainty In a Post-Factual World Flipside of “Is this real?/Does it matter?”: the fear that political and cultural facts do not matter either. During an election period where people choose only to follow what they believe rather than what is true, this can be very dangerous. Must grasp this cultivated uncertainty and generating something new, and better, in response. We can embrace it as masters of our own fate. We can create our own Future.
- 6. 6 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE 1. Hypernormalisation
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- 8. 8 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Why are shows such as Stranger Things suddenly so popular? Injecting unreality into a rigid, banal world. Flipping the world on its head and reflecting the dark underbelly of an an uncertain world. Narcos Stranger Things
- 9. 9 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE 2. IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS
- 10. 10 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE 3. Imagining Weirdness & Beyond Creating worlds that can only exist virtually People want to be able to imagine new worlds and scenarios -- this is next-gen Fantasy Adventure Exhausted by the tensions, frustrations and failures of our current reality, we want a radical shift in perspective; to explore the strange and bizarre as an elixir for the banal pragmatism of a data-driven world
- 11. 11 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE
- 12. 12 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE DIMODA Digital Museum of Digital Art An art museum that exists entirely within VR Artists create their own virtual worlds that audiences teleport into from within the museum
- 13. 13 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE IMPERFECT SCANS By trying to recreate the world through new technologies, it is rendered imperfect, strange, magical and surreal
- 14. 14 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE
- 15. 15 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Virtual Reality Pregnancy In an interview with the co- creator Kristen D. Schaffer, “I don’t want to get pregnant and he does, so we did this,” An anthology series is planned for the future that might even result in an “AI Baby”
- 16. 16 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE
- 17. 17 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Parents can meet unborn children for first time in 3D virtual reality
- 18. 18 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE 4. POTENTIAL FUTURES
- 19. 19 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE The first step to reaching a new future is envisioning what we want it to look like How do we inspire people to create their own Future? In the face of uncertainty, people want to feel hope. Uncertainty must be shaped into a space for possibility, not anxiety
- 20. 20 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE A forthcoming Additivism “cookbook” to be released digitally for free with articles and projects that help imagine and refine this concept of the Future “there have got to be better ways of being, and moving beyond the concepts that limit us is the only way to head in the right direction.” ADDITIVISM Push technology into “the realm of the speculative, the provocative, and the weird.”
- 21. 21 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Weirdness can unsettle us from our complacency and kickstart our imagination We can create new narratives that reflect what we want from the Future rather than accepting the status quo. “it’s something that can be remixed, appropriated, redirected, repurposed. That it’s not just “floating around out there”, or in the hands of a few people, that’s it’s not something to be feared, but treated critically, carefully, humorously, seriously.”
- 22. 22 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE #NEWPALMYRA A digital archaeology project that seeks to rebuild, digitally, monuments and artifacts in Palmyra that were destroyed by ISIS
- 23. 23 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE After ISIS’ decimation of cultural objects, landmarks and artifacts in cities such as Mosul, sadness can morph into creative energy to rebuild and reimagine the Future
- 24. 24 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE How do we affirm identity through reinvention in the Future? What does it mean to imagine a more inclusive Future for all people? IYAPO REPOSITORY A series of objects that represent what blackness could mean in the far and distant future
- 25. 25 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE We Are What We Pretend To Be, Inc WE ARE WHAT WE PRETEND TO BE Inc.(WAWPRE) is an entity for my series of experiments about the relationship between our free will and unfree (uncontrollable) will. Can I change my unfree will by change my free will? How can I shift self identity by altering my and also others’ perspective?
- 26. 26 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE MASK by Laura JuoHsin Chen explores identity through the virtual and real world. How can pretending to be other things change who we really are? This project addresses isolation, social anxiety, and nonverbal communications. Each mask provides a different experience thereby extending the virtual world into the real one.
- 27. 27 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE Artificially Engineered Reality “We can also use the model to add animations to static images by training it to generate the Future. Of course, the Future is uncertain, so the model rarely generates the "correct" Future, but we think the prediction has some plausibility.” New tools can generate speech that previously didn’t exist Neural Networks combine images and video to create new realities out of thin air.
- 28. 28 by FAITH POPCORN’SBRAINRESERVE QUESTIONS What are the advantages of a post-truth society as it pertains to consumer behavior? How do we leverage uncertainty as a space for creativity? What kind of worlds can we create to encourage consumer exploration?
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Scan during dinner one night by my artist friend Alfredo Salazar-Caro
- #4 http://animalnewyork.com/2015/theres-a-massive-illicit-bust-of-edward-snowden-stuck-to-a-war-monument-in-brooklyn/
- #5 ON TRUTH AND LIES IN A PRAGMATIC, PERFORMATIVE SENSE (WITH MY RESPECTS TO NIETZSCHE), AKA: REALITY NEEDS A BETTER PR DEPARTMENT. **DYLAN, this is hard to follow for me -- can you maybe trim down first quote? Love the second ;-)
- #6 The Age of Post-Truth Politics Can you cut down and do as short bullet points? It’s a lot of text on a page
- #7 Adam Curtis’s Hypernormalisation
- #9 The rise of magic realism in TV reflects society’s increased frustration with reality Clip of Stranger Things -- the swimming pool scene?
- #12 Christopher Manzione’s To Notice and To Remember
- #13 Move Over Louvre, The DiMoDa Museum Exists Online in VR and IRL
- #14 Space Between the Skies Rachel Rossin Claire Hentschker
- #15 John Craig Freeman “John Craig Freeman is perhaps the most direct example of an artist using newer technologies as a means of documenting – and even recovering – cultural knowledge from the oblivion threatened by swift change. For his work Portal to an Alternative Reality VR: Minsheng Courtyard, Freeman has rendered a courtyard within the Minsheng district in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Through virtual reality technology, Freeman not only captures current topologies that will soon be lost to rapid over-development, but also reflects on the 17th century Taoist Temple that once stood at this site. Suggesting that the current state of radical change is not a new phenomenon for the multi-valenced history of China, Freeman offers a chance to look through the present into the past and back again – an ideal mode of remembrance and commemoration.”
- #16 Finally! You Can Be Pregnant in Virtual Reality
- #17 Oculus Birth
- #18 Parents can meet unborn children for first time in 3D virtual reality
- #19 A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve heritage sites. http://www.newpalmyra.org/
- #21 Additivism **STILL NOT GETTING IT, SORRY. WE’LL GET THERE, I’M SURE! WHY DO WE WANT IT TO BE WEIRD AND UNSETTLING. I CUT DOWN ON COPY A BIT More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown
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- #23 A Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve heritage sites. http://www.newpalmyra.org/
- #24 ISIS Vandals Inspire Digital Remixes of Cultural Artifacts Pierre Chaumont
- #25 Afrofuturist Museum Mines Artifacts from the Future Iyapo Repository “The Iyapo Repository is named after the protagonist, Lilth Iyapo, of science fiction novelist Octavia Butler’s Lilith Brood trilogy. In Butler’s first novel in the series, Dawn, Iyapo wakes up after 250 years on a ship orbiting an uninhabitable Earth. She is one of the few humans, black and female, to have survived a nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union. The book centers on Iyapo’s desire to remain black, female, and alive as a testament to humanity. The Iyapo Repository is a way for black people living today to imagine what it will mean to be black in the future. The artists see the manuscripts as a way to tell Black histories to future generations. Iyapo Repository can also be a way to create fantastic new narratives about blackness—stories unbound by current realities.”
- #26 WE ARE WHAT WE PRETEND TO BE Inc. It’s an installation that provided customized virtual reality experience that users (aka passengers) can design their tram journey based on their mood, destination, favorite color, and cloth to wear. Also from the cutout hole on the cardboard box, which is usually covered with curtain, I will take a picture of the passengers, so the passengers will be able to see themselves in the VR. SUMMER THROWBACK THREE: WE ARE WHAT WE PRETEND TO BE INC. ESTABLISHED!
- #27 MASK by Laura JuoHsin Chen
- #28 After 20 Minutes of Listening, New Adobe Tool Can Make You Say Anything Will need you to explain how this generates future scenarios -- am not clear on that, thx