가상현실 기반의 뉴미디어아트: 물질 혹은 비물질 (New Media Art Based on VR - Materiality or Immateriality)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 서양미술사학회
· 수록지 정보 : 서양미술사학회 논문집 / 34호 / 259 ~ 283페이지
· 저자명 : 전혜숙

초록

이 논문은 디지털 기술을 바탕으로 CAVE 및 HMD 등을 사용하는 가상현실 기반의 뉴미디어아트 작품들이, 물질적 구성요소들인 하드웨어나 인터페이스로부터 벗어나지 못한다 할지라도 특별한 경험 및 효과를 발생시키는 근본원리이자 현상으로서 비 물질인 빛에 의거한다는 사실을 강조함으로써 물질과 비 물질의 경계에 있음을 주장한다.

영어초록

The very term virtual reality, as Elizabeth Grosz explains, attests to a real not quite real, not an ‘actual real’, a ‘really real’ but a real whose reality is at best virtual.
But VR(Virtual Reality) experienced through New Media, means the technology by which we can enter into computer-made space, and aims to realize the space that viewers or users can sense a kind of ‘presence’ (an impression suggestive of ‘being there’) but objects are consisted of just light figments and electronic bits. VR produces a high-grade feeling of immersion, of presence, which can enhanced further through interaction with apparently ‘living’ environments in ‘real time’.
The artworks based on VR can be categorized into the ‘Immersive VR’ that viewers must go into CAVE(Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) and the ‘Interactive MR(Mixed Reality)’ that the virtual realities are superimposed onto actual reality.
Both of them propose, on the one hand, the problems of materiality/immateriality in experience of viewers, and on the other hand, the problems of body, because expanded image spaces can be experienced poly-sensorily and interactively.
It is important to determine which characteristics of virtual image systems distinguish them from images of traditional artworks. It is necessary to explore and analyze the new aesthetic potential and that technology has made possible. To the artists working with computer-aided, interactive, real-time images, new possibilities of expressions are open. But is unchangeable fact that new media arts based on VR use immaterial lights. In this essay, for focusing on the issue of materiality and immateriality, I introduced the VR works of Jeffrey Shaw, Charlotte Davies, Paul Sermon, Maurice Benayoun, Romy Achituv, Camille Utterbak etc.
As a conclusion, the VR artworks are in the border(in-between-ness) of the material and the immaterial, and they have a kind of second-ordered materiality, so call ‘liminal’ materiality. In the near future, we can discuss the concept of ‘Technological Materiality’ in relation to VR, that is a kind of new materiality beyond the dualist paradigm.

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