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  • Cultural History of Virtual Reality and Anthropology of the Human Senses

    A cultural history of virtual reality, which is yet to be written, will need to begin by acknowledging the cultural conditioning of human sensory experience. We cannot ignore our material existence which transcurs in and through our bodies, which are also subject to influences of culture. Though it shares some of its characteristics, such as immersion, in its core virtual reality is not time-based media like cinema. Through the contraints that it places on the human  senses, virtual reality is a new medium that affords a high degree of immersion as well as the experience of 'being there'. 


    ADDITIONAL LINKS TO THE CLASS PRESENTATION


    Char Davies, Osmose, 1995 (art work)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54O4VP3tCoY


    Char Davies, Ephemere, 1998 (art work)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCWaMll0leI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa_aiw7yhpI

    http://www.immersence.com/ephemere/


    Chris Salter, Entangled (Lecture)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvA1UpGaRdM


    Myron Kruger, Videoplace (research and art video)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqZyZrN3Pl0


    Jeffrey Shaw, Legible City, 1989 (art work)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61l7Y4MS4aU


    Mel Slater, lecture at Laval Virtual VRIC, France 2018

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKAQxWBpjpw

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