What do we mean by 'virtualism'?
-In media context, the simulation of 'the real': primarily through digital construct and manipulation.
-The aesthetic tension between physical and digital material vs immaterial; 'the uncanny valley'
Virtualism in visual media:
-Game of Thrones- Fantasy Drama
-Dramatic elements (narrative and character) relies on realism.
-Fantasy (non-realist) elements relies on digital constructs.
Aesthetic Tension:
-What is 'real'?
-What is 'created'?
-Analogue (practical) or digital?
-How do we perceive difference?
'The Uncanny':
-'An uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality are blurred'- Freud, 'The Uncanny' (1919)
-Heimlich- the familiar and comfortable.
-Unheimlisch- the unfamiliar and strange.
'The Uncanny Valley'
-Following Freud's theory, the perceptual gap between that which is perceived as 'real' and that which is 'almost real' (or a close simulacrum).
-Provokes aesthetic sense of discomfort, eeriness or revulsion.
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