Chris Milk: The birth of virtual reality as an art form
Chris Milk: Sự ra đời của loại hình nghệ thuật thực tế ảo
Working at the frontiers of interactive technology, Chris Milk stretches virtual reality into a new canvas for storytelling. Full bio
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searching for it,
have more emotional resonance.
at the right time fuses with us
back there again.
where I got a little greedy.
on top of the music,
even more powerful.
to look more like this.
for the same thing, though,
added narrative dimension, yes,
when you've devoted your life
bạn dành hết cuộc đời
to becoming a music video director.
did I take the wrong path?
tôi đã đi sai đường chăng?
involve you, the audience, more,
cùng hợp tác với khán giả nhiều hơn nữa,
feel something more as well.
auditioning new technologies
công nghệ mới
inside of the work,
in "The Wilderness Downtown,"
in "The Johnny Cash Project,"
experiential power of pure music for me.
in science fiction.
I found a prototype.
in Mark Bolas's lab in USC.
Mark Bolas ở USC.
when I ran into it.
in this new medium,
we realized something:
an incredibly important role
that actually makes the jump
việc chuyển hóa
of an author's expression
I'll explain. Don't worry.
Tôi sẽ giải thích thêm, đừng lo.
with a good story.
on the tundra that day.
into our own internal truths.
version of the story,
mô tả về chuyến đi săn ấy,
what we call "suspension of disbelief,"
"tạm ngưng nghi ngờ",
between the reality of the story
interpreting the story
as a feeling of reality that we get
the world around us.
hunting with the clan leader.
of year one of cinema.
of people running for their lives
was coming toward them.
of this medium,
past the spectacle
language of storytelling,
at our VR company, Vrse,
direct path into your senses,
that you could possibly look,
is tricky in VR.
at a constant speed in a straight line,
every single rule
we can accomplish.
off the ground, I added acceleration.
chúng ta bay lên khỏi mặt đất.
to give you a physical sensation
cảm giác thực tế thế nào
in this medium as well.
with the New York Times, Zach Richter
2,000 feet above Manhattan,
phía trên Manhattan,
different than in film,
where your consciousness exists
which was a collaboration between Vrse,
and Imraan Ismail,
of the close-up in virtual reality.
you're actually close up to someone.
of your personal space,
for the people that we love.
closeness to the character
to be a physical closeness.
directing for the rectangle.
of the viewer's attention.
to guide your attention
in front of you, to left or right,
the sound will rotate accordingly.
to where I want you to see.
singing over your shoulder,
like we are part of something.
we lived in small family units.
then villages and towns,
hardwired to care the most
and anyone feel local.
takes you to a Syrian refugee camp,
about people over there,
with all previous mediums,
or paper or TV signals.
to make sense of the world.
as the paints on the canvas,
all of our human senses employed,
the story in any path we choose.
past simulated realities?
telling you about a dream,
visiting some reality on Earth,
on the edge of a black hole,
not using words
what that's called.
a medium I'm saying is experiential.
a piece of cardboard.
to unlock the phone.
this experience on your phone yourself,
of your own to try it with.
a little bit of that lightning
VR viewing in history.
style of yesteryear,
look like? I can't see.
of the New York Times Magazine,
outside the helicopter,
vertical so I could grab it.
we had to redo it a few times --
who have lost loved ones.
in Zaatari than adults right now.
to do a standing ovation.
I knew you'd applaud at the end.
Tôi biết các bạn sẽ vỗ tay vào cuối buổi thôi.
needs to experience
start to shape this,
a VR project called "The Displaced."
Google Cardboards
with their newspaper.
that Sunday morning.
on the mailing label.
all over Instagram.
like the unattainable
the same formative experience
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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