Chris Milk: The birth of virtual reality as an art form
كريش مايك: ميلاد الواقع الافتراضي كشكل من أشكال الفن.
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.
العاطفي لكل شيء.
at the right time fuses with us
تذوب فينا
back there again.
where I got a little greedy.
بعض الشيء.
on top of the music,
عند بداية الموسيقى،
even more powerful.
to look more like this.
for the same thing, though,
added narrative dimension, yes,
إضافة بعد قصصي لها، نعم،
when you've devoted your life
قد وهبت حياتك
to becoming a music video director.
مُخرج فيديوهات موسيقية.
did I take the wrong path?
هل سلكت الطريق الخاطئ؟
involve you, the audience, more,
أُشرِكَكُم أنتم، والمستمعين، وآخرين،
feel something more as well.
هو أقوى أيضاً.
auditioning new technologies
عن تقنيات جديدة
inside of the work,
in "The Wilderness Downtown,"
(صحراء وسط البلد)،
in "The Johnny Cash Project,"
experiential power of pure music for me.
في رأيي.
in science fiction.
I found a prototype.
وجدت نموذج بدائي.
in Mark Bolas's lab in USC.
(مارك بولاس) بجامعة جنوب كاليفورنيا.
when I ran into it.
عندما توصلت إليه.
in this new medium,
في ذلك الوسط الجديد،
we realized something:
an incredibly important role
that actually makes the jump
of an author's expression
I'll explain. Don't worry.
سأشرح هذا. لا تقلقوا.
with a good story.
لنحكي قصة جميلة.
on the tundra that day.
في ذلك اليوم.
into our own internal truths.
version of the story,
what we call "suspension of disbelief,"
"تعطيل الشك،"
between the reality of the story
interpreting the story
as a feeling of reality that we get
بمعني إحساسنا بالواقع الذي يتكون
the world around us.
hunting with the clan leader.
تصطادون مع زعيم القبيلة.
of year one of cinema.
of people running for their lives
يهربون لإنقاذ حياتهم
was coming toward them.
قادماً ناحيتهم.
of this medium,
past the spectacle
أن نتجاوز العرض
language of storytelling,
قواعد الكتابة أكثر
at our VR company, Vrse,
شركتنا الإفتراضية، (فرسي)،
direct path into your senses,
نصل به لحواسِكم،
that you could possibly look,
أن تنظروا إليه،
is tricky in VR.
في الواقع الإفتراضي.
تشْعِرَكَمْ بالدُوار.
at a constant speed in a straight line,
في خط مستقيم،
every single rule
we can accomplish.
التي بإمكاننا تحقيقها.
off the ground, I added acceleration.
قمت بتسريعها.
to give you a physical sensation
in this medium as well.
في هذا الوسط أيضاً.
with the New York Times, Zach Richter
مع (النيويورك تايمز) و(زاك ريشتر)
2,000 feet above Manhattan,
علي إرتفاع 2000 قدم فوق منهاتن،
different than in film,
where your consciousness exists
which was a collaboration between Vrse,
والذي كان بالتعاون مع شركة (فرسي)،
and Imraan Ismail,
و(عمران إسماعيل)،
of the close-up in virtual reality.
للإقتراب من الواقع الإفتراضي.
you're actually close up to someone.
إقترابك الفعلي من أحد ما.
of your personal space,
for the people that we love.
للناس الذين نحبهم.
closeness to the character
to be a physical closeness.
directing for the rectangle.
الإخراج للشاشة المستطيلة.
of the viewer's attention.
التي تجلب انتباه المشاهد.
to guide your attention
in front of you, to left or right,
أمامكم، علي يساركم أو يمينكم،
the sound will rotate accordingly.
سيدور الصوت تبعاً لحركتكم.
to where I want you to see.
إلي حيث أريدكم أن تنظروا.
singing over your shoulder,
أحداً يُغني قُربَ أكتافكم،
like we are part of something.
جزء من شي ما.
we lived in small family units.
عشنا في عائلات صغيرة.
then villages and towns,
ثم إلي القُري والمدن،
hardwired to care the most
and anyone feel local.
مألوفاً لك.
takes you to a Syrian refugee camp,
للآجئين السوريين،
about people over there,
with all previous mediums,
المتحركة وأحصنته وحتي الآن.
or paper or TV signals.
أو ورقة أو إشارة من التلفاز.
to make sense of the world.
لإعطاء معنى للعالم.
as the paints on the canvas,
all of our human senses employed,
قد تم تَوظِفها،
the story in any path we choose.
لنعيش قصة أي طريق نختاره.
past simulated realities?
عندما نتجاوز تقليد الواقع؟
telling you about a dream,
الحكاية الشفهية عن حلم،
visiting some reality on Earth,
الإكتفاء بزيارة بعض الأماكن علي الأرض،
on the edge of a black hole,
علي موجات الجاذبية علي حافة الثقب الأسود،
not using words
دون استخدام كلمات
what that's called.
أنا لا أدري ماذا يمكن أن نُسَميه.
a medium I'm saying is experiential.
a piece of cardboard.
تمسكون بورقة كرتونية.
to unlock the phone.
this experience on your phone yourself,
of your own to try it with.
لتجربوها بأنفسكم.
a little bit of that lightning
إيجاد قليل من الإلهام
VR viewing in history.
عن الواقع الإفتراضي في التاريخ.
style of yesteryear,
look like? I can't see.
of the New York Times Magazine,
outside the helicopter,
vertical so I could grab it.
لكي أتمكن من الإمساك بها.
we had to redo it a few times --
نُضطَر لتكرار الأمرعدة مرات --
who have lost loved ones.
ممن فقدوا أحباءهم.
in Zaatari than adults right now.
في مخيم الزعتري أصبحوا كباراً الآن.
to do a standing ovation.
I knew you'd applaud at the end.
عرفت أنكم ستصفقون في النهاية.
needs to experience
start to shape this,
أن نبدأ بتشكيل هذا،
في نوفمبر من العام الماضي،
a VR project called "The Displaced."
أسموه "النازحون".
Google Cardboards
with their newspaper.
في جريدة صانداي مع نسختهم.
that Sunday morning.
on the mailing label.
المسجَلين في البريد.
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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