{"id":79528,"date":"2023-03-08T22:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T22:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/alberta-art-exhibit-uses-virtual-reality-to-explore-who-we-are-as-digital-beings\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T22:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T22:14:16","slug":"alberta-artwork-exhibit-makes-use-of-digital-actuality-to-discover-who-were-as-digital-beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/alberta-artwork-exhibit-makes-use-of-digital-actuality-to-discover-who-were-as-digital-beings\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta artwork exhibit makes use of digital actuality to discover who we’re as digital beings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why are folks excited by digital actuality and what can it inform us about who we’re and what we’d turn into in a digital world?<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs an artist, it\u2019s a question I\u2019ve been asking for decades,\u201d mentioned artist and media arts professor Marilene Oliver. \u201cNow with virtual reality, when we really are completely immersed in the digital, I wanted to ask that question.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to her instructing work, Oliver is the co-curator of an artwork exhibit on the University of Alberta\u2019s Fine Arts Building gallery known as Know Thyself As a Virtual Reality<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s based on a Greek maxim: Nosce te Ipsum, which was used in the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. In that time, it was: \u2018To know your place within a social hierarchy.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cLater you find it in anatomical engravings, where it\u2019s: \u2018To know thyself as a divine work of God.\u2019 And now, the more we\u2019re becoming digital, the more we\u2019re creating these huge data sets of everything we do, we now need to know ourselves, I believe, as digital objects and subjects,\u201d Oliver defined. \u201cThis is what we are called to do now to understand ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There are seven artworks that use digital actuality to discover totally different elements of knowledge and the digital elements of human life. The works introduced collectively many various disciplines together with advantageous artwork, radiology, engineering, music, digital humanities and computing science.<\/p>\n

Oliver explains one focus of the exhibit as: \u201cCan we find a way to visually communicate what we\u2019re becoming as digital beings?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the place the digital actuality is available in. Donning a headset and hand controls, an individual is immersed in knowledge \u2014 the data, the way it seems, sounds and feels \u2014 and may work together with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn one of the projects that I was part of, called My Data Body<\/em>, we try to create a body which you can take apart and dissect,\u201d Oliver defined.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has many different data bodies in it. It has my MRI scan, all my social media data, my Google data, banking data, my data cookies and it\u2019s put it in kind of this vessel that you can then take apart in an attempt to try and see it, to try and hold it, because how else can we see all this data that we\u2019re generating?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Know Thyself artworks<\/h2>\n

Where are You?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201caAron Munson has made a work called Where Are You?<\/em> and that makes us think about how social media is changing the way our brain works and where we place our attention,\u201d Oliver mentioned.<\/p>\n

Munson in contrast fMRI scans of their mind: impartial, after meditating and after utilizing social media. People can use the VR headset to expertise the three totally different mind scans.<\/p>\n

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a vessel, a physique, a house<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cChelsey Campbell has made a piece that is very peaceful and restful,\u201d Oliver mentioned. \u201cIt makes us think about how much work we constantly feel we need to be doing all the time. She stands against that and has created a very quiet space where you should just lay and enjoy the beauty of the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the VR expertise, the person is transported to a home bed room area.<\/p>\n

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Ancestry & Me<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have another piece by Lisa Mayes, which actually isn\u2019t with an MRI scan, but with her DNA data,\u201d Oliver mentioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe sent off a sample to Ancestry and found out about her family history. She talks about how the scientific data recording somehow legitimized all the conversations that had been had in her family about her ancestral roots, which come from Ireland, from France, Scotland and Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n

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