Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
Chris Milk: Hvordan virtuel realitet kan blive den ultimative empati-maskine
Working at the frontiers of interactive technology, Chris Milk stretches virtual reality into a new canvas for storytelling. Full bio
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in sort of an unusual place.
usædvanligt sted.
I was seven years old.
meget ung: syv år gammel.
to access virtual reality
til virtuel realitet
that particular item:
over 100 feet at top speed.
i højeste fart.
glæde dengang.
jumped the Snake River Canyon together.
hoppede over Snake River Canyon sammen.
I only got the motorcycle.
kun motorcyklen.
when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.
voksen, jeg ville være stuntman.
music videos that I made:
musikvideoer som jeg lavede:
some slight similarities here.
nogle ligheder her.
or, the beginning of a filmmaker,
begynder at lave film,
available to me as a filmmaker
tilgængeligt for mig som instruktør
that I can to an audience.
historier jeg kan til et publikum.
that allows us to feel empathy
til at føle empati
foreign from our own.
vores egen.
empathy for us that we felt for him,
for os som vi havde for ham,
that I worshipped as a child,
som dreng,
to become as an adult,
som voksen,
en autograf fra.
now as it was then.
played in a sequence.
i en sekvens.
with those rectangles.
med de rektangler.
and developing technologies
og nyudviklede teknologier
the traditional tools of filmmaking
traditionelle filmværktøjer
to build the ultimate empathy machine.
ultimative empati-maskine.
"The Wilderness Downtown."
"Junglen midt i byen."
where you grew up at the beginning of it.
hvor du voksede op i starten af filmen.
boxes with different browser windows.
med forskellige browser vinduer.
running down a street,
løber ned ad gaden,
and Google Maps imagery
og billeder fra Google Maps
he's running down is yours.
ad er din gade.
he stops in front of your house.
standser han foran dit hus.
having an even deeper emotional reaction
endnu dybere følelsesmæssig reaktion
I had made in rectangles.
i rektanglerne.
a piece of your history
af din historie
the framing of the story.
historierammen.
inside of the frame?
ind i historierammen?
making art installations.
at lave kunst-installationer.
"The Treachery of Sanctuary."
"Fristedets forræderi."
you the third panel.
det tredje panel.
visceral emotional reactions
følelsesmæssige reaktioner
and what do they represent?
hvad de repræsenterer.
television, cinema --
fjernsyn, biograffilm --
these other worlds.
I got you in a frame.
Jeg har jer i en ramme.
I don't want you in the window,
jeg vil ikke have jer i vinduet,
I want you on the other side,
på den anden side,
til virtuel realitet.
is like dancing about architecture.
som at danse om arkitektur.
about architecture in virtual reality.
arkitektur i virtuel realitet.
Why is it difficult to explain?
Hvorfor er det svært at forklare?
experiential medium.
eksperimenterende.
it feels like truth.
det føles som sandhed.
that you're inside
that you're inside of it with.
der er inden i den sammen med dig.
of a virtual reality film:
virtuel realitet film:
all the information
we shoot virtual reality.
virtuel realitet.
in every direction
i alle retninger
that face in every direction.
optager i alle retninger.
a sphere of a world that you inhabit.
som du kan besøge.
is not a view into the world,
i denne verden,
stretched into a rectangle.
en rektangel.
"Clouds Over Sidra,"
"Skyer over Sidra,"
our virtual reality company called VRSE
virtuel realitet firma kaldet VRSE
ved navn Gabo Arora.
in Jordan in December
i Jordan i december
girl there named Sidra.
pige dér ved navn Sidra.
through the desert into Jordan
gennem ørkenen til Jordan
camp for the last year and a half.
det sidste halvandet år.
in the Daraa Province, Inkhil City.
Daraa i byen Inkhil.
in Jordan for the last year and a half.
gennem det sidste halvandet år.
I was a baby and he says I did not.
var spæd og han siger det gjorde jeg ikke.
than my brother.
end min bror.
of the headset.
360 degrees, in all directions.
hele vejen rundt.
in her room, watching her,
og kigger på hende,
a television screen,
you're sitting there with her.
du sidder der med hende.
on the same ground that she's sitting on.
gulv hun sidder på.
minds with this machine.
heder med denne maskine.
to try to change a few.
ændre nogle.
Forum in Davos in January.
Forum i Davos sidste januar.
of millions of people.
hos millioner af mennesker.
who might not otherwise
in a refugee camp in Jordan.
i Jordan.
in Switzerland,
United Nations right now
a story in Liberia.
i Liberia.
to shoot a story in India.
at the United Nations
that are visiting there.
them to the people
of the people inside of the films.
menneskene i filmene.
start to scratch the surface
startet med at opdage
in a profound way
på en dybtgående måde
in any other form of media.
for medie.
perception of each other.
opfattelse af hinanden.
to actually change the world.
til egentlig at forandre verden.
we become more compassionate,
bliver vi mere medfølende,
and we become more connected.
og vi bliver mere forbundne.
mere menneskelige.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chris Milk - Immersive storytellerWorking at the frontiers of interactive technology, Chris Milk stretches virtual reality into a new canvas for storytelling.
Why you should listen
Chris Milk is a visual artist who has created music videos for Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Beck, U2, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley and many more. He is known for weaving artistic and technological innovations in pursuit of the next great platform for storytelling. Milk's acclaimed interactive projects include Wilderness Downtown (with Arcade Fire), The Johnny Cash Project and The Treachery of Sanctuary. His interactive installation artworks have been showcased at the MoMA, the Tate Modern and museums around the world.
Milk's most recent contribution to the art and tech frontier is as founder and CEO of the virtual reality company Within (formerly Vrse). In collaboration with the New York Times, Zach Richter and JR, Milk created two VR films, Walking New York and The Displaced, which were distributed along with Google Cardboard viewers to 1 million NYT subscribers in 2015. He has also collaborated on VR projects with the United Nations (Clouds Over Sidra and Waves of Grace), Vice, SNL and U2.
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