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Interrogating our climate crises, slow, steady video art offers viewers new ways to consider the scale of a landscape and the scale of their anxieties. Tracing the history of the medium and examining three contemporary examples, this essay is an...
“As the melodies suffused her mind they intermingled”— Marc Stiegler, “The Gentle Seduction” Sitting alone on the riverside, my neighbor is immersed in viewing our familiar corner of Taipei through the perspective of the drone he’s piloting. Looking down through...
The Zen master and poet Eihei Dogen wrote an essay called Uji, Being-Time, which is essentially, about the non-separation between being and time. They are one in the same. Being, as in action, is time, and time, being. The totality...
Interactive fiction is an innately intimate form of storytelling, in both aesthetics and narrative style. But what does this mean for the reader? What could this mean for the future of independent publishing? This text examines the ways in which...
Sarah Cook
1. Some things can only be achieved through failure. This requires a reconceptualization of what it means to succeed: being comfortable with the presence of the one, and with the absence of the other one. 1.1 Sometimes it’s the words...
Christopher Impiglia
As noted in my previous and first entry, Real Combat, I’m interested in what Amalfitano, in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, calls “great, imperfect, torrential works.” It was therefore only natural that I were to eventually crack open the used, single-volume edition...
In 2015, the United Nations released its first 360-degree virtual reality film, Clouds Over Sidra. While the film went on to help raise millions of dollars for Syrian refugees, what assumptions underlie the film, how might they be harmful, and...
Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood
My girlhood in Vietnam consists of many ordinary fangirling activities—collecting pirated CDs, worshipping Vietnamese pop singers, but most of all I remember watching with my older sister hundreds, if not thousands-episode-long Chinese dramas. Probably because of the sheer length of...
While modern art can exist to challenge the viewer, it can also fail to engage or draw the viewer in. Immersive art presents an opportunity for a different experience, where art combined with technology can engage the viewer’s curiosity and...
Creating Awareness on Climate Action With The Power of Creative Storytelling Combining Art & Technology The combination of art and technology is a dynamic process that utilizes the emotional power of art intertwined with creative engineering tools to create awareness...
Light has the power to illuminate more than just the physical environment around us: it can transform a landscape, teach us more about the natural world, and connect us in ways that linger long after the lights turn off. After...
“Shopping in the Metamarket” examines how virtual reality is being used to build on techniques of behavioural economics in shopping, examines the rules we are taught about how to behave when shopping, and asks what further behaviour we will need...
Sarah Cook
A column that celebrates intuition, emotion, and sensitivity as important forms of knowledge. When I first sat down to write an introduction to my column, “Uncommon Sense,” I became immediately nervous. Why? Maybe I was worried about accidentally placing limitations...
Christopher Impiglia
I’ve always been attracted to what Amalfitano, in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, calls the “great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze the path into the unknown.” Like Amalfitano, a professor of philosophy on the verge—like most, perhaps—of madness, I’m interested in...
Backslide is a virtual reality experience for playwrights based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Its floating GIFs, semi-cryptic text, and witty play with classical and pop culture, invite the player to break linear thought. Backslide is a simulation and stimulation of the...
Mark Chu
The tragic event of Miami’s Surfside condo collapse (June 25, 2021) symbolized an ongoing change contested by pundits for years, the sort of tectonic change that can only be properly acknowledged in retrospect, once a critical mass of expert and...
