Claire Bishop’s Digital Divide - response
Claire Bishop’s essay has made several interesting points regarding the digital era’s repercussions on art, but I cannot say I am fully on board with everything she has said. If I compare her statements to my experience at the Phi center, many of them are not applicable. (In my response I will only attend to one question she has addressed)
“While many artists use digital technology, how many really confront the question of what it means to think, see, and filter affects through the digital?”
I believe the immersive world of VR does actually confront us to that question. The point of this experience is, from my point of view, to face the public to another world - yes, for entertainment - but still with this background intention of pushing us to think and see through the digital, questioning us on our reality, the viewer slowly detaching himself from the tangible world to let its mind wander in the technological images that absorb him mentally and almost physically.
This experience also indirectly addresses the digital’s effects in its way of making us lose our sense of reality. This new immaterial and aesthetically overwhelming world has managed to fully detach us from life for an instant; during the VR experience, you almost forget who you are. Virtual reality, as perfect as it is, resembles a dream - the depth of the images are surreal and the overall experience reaches all your senses, creating a feeling of euphoria.
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