Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
Chris Milk: Wie virtuelle Realität zur ultimativen Empathie-Maschine werden kann
Working at the frontiers of interactive technology, Chris Milk stretches virtual reality into a new canvas for storytelling. Full bio
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an einem eher ungewöhnlichen Ort.
in sort of an unusual place.
Damals war ich sieben Jahre alt
I was seven years old.
virtuellen Realität fand ich damals
to access virtual reality
that particular item:
auf Höchstgeschwindigkeit.
over 100 feet at top speed.
jumped the Snake River Canyon together.
übersprang mit ihm den Snake River.
nur das Stunt-Motorrad.
I only got the motorcycle.
sondern Stuntman werden wollte.
when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.
music videos that I made:
some slight similarities here.
einige Ähnlichkeiten.
oder versuchte einer zu werden
or, the beginning of a filmmaker,
available to me as a filmmaker
das mir dafür zur Verfügung stand,
that I can to an audience.
fesselndsten Geschichten zu erzählen.
that allows us to feel empathy
die anders sind als wir,
völlig fremd sind, einzufühlen.
foreign from our own.
Gefühle in keinster Weise
empathy for us that we felt for him,
den ich als Kind so bewunderte
that I worshipped as a child,
to become as an adult,
so gerne werden wollte,
now as it was then.
die nacheinander abgespielt werden.
played in a sequence.
mit diesen Bildern gemacht.
with those rectangles.
dafür benutzen kann,
and developing technologies
the traditional tools of filmmaking
verwenden, erlaubten.
to build the ultimate empathy machine.
Empathie-Maschine zu entwickeln.
"The Wilderness Downtown."
where you grew up at the beginning of it.
an der Sie aufgewachsen sind.
boxes with different browser windows.
Browserfenster öffnen.
running down a street,
eine Straße entlang laufen
and Google Maps imagery
und Bilder von Google Maps
die Straße Ihre eigene ist.
he's running down is yours.
ist es Ihr eigenes Haus.
he stops in front of your house.
darauf emotional stärker reagierten
having an even deeper emotional reaction
I had made in rectangles.
aus Ihrer Vergangenheit
a piece of your history
the framing of the story.
als Ganzes da hinein?
inside of the frame?
making art installations.
"Der Verrat der Heiligtümer".
"The Treachery of Sanctuary."
you the third panel.
und dies die dritte Klappe.
visceral emotional reactions
noch tiefere emotionale Reaktion
and what do they represent?
Rahmen eigentlich stehen.
television, cinema --
ob Fernsehen oder Kino,
these other worlds.
habe ich Sie in einem Rahmen.
I got you in a frame.
I don't want you in the window,
des Rahmens oder Fensters haben,
I want you on the other side,
zur virtuellen Realität.
wie über Architektur tanzen.
is like dancing about architecture.
about architecture in virtual reality.
in einer virtuellen Realität.
Why is it difficult to explain?
Warum ist das so?
experiential medium.
sehr experimentelles Medium ist.
it feels like truth.
wie die Wahrheit.
that you're inside
that you're inside of it with.
Menschen dort zugehörig.
of a virtual reality film:
eines Virtual-Reality-Films:
all the information
allen Informationen,
we shoot virtual reality.
haben wir dafür gebaut.
in every direction
die in jede Richtung blicken,
that face in every direction.
in alle Richtungen.
a sphere of a world that you inhabit.
is not a view into the world,
einen Blick in diese Welt,
stretched into a rectangle.
auf ein Rechteck erstreckt.
"Clouds Over Sidra,"
unserer Virtual-Reality-Firma VRSE
our virtual reality company called VRSE
namens Gabo Arora.
syrischen Flüchtlingslager in Jordanien
in Jordan in December
girl there named Sidra.
12-jährigen Mädchens namens Sidra.
durch die Wüste nach Jordanien
through the desert into Jordan
camp for the last year and a half.
in diesem Camp.
in the Daraa Province, Inkhil City.
nahe der Stadt Inkhil in Syrien.
Jordanien, seit eineinhalb Jahren.
in Jordan for the last year and a half.
so oft geweint habe. Er sagt nein.
I was a baby and he says I did not.
als mein Bruder.
than my brother.
of the headset.
360 degrees, in all directions.
360°-Winkel umschauen können.
Raum sitzen und sie beobachten,
in her room, watching her,
a television screen,
you're sitting there with her.
Sie sitzen dort mit ihr.
sitzen Sie auf dem gleichen Fußboden.
on the same ground that she's sitting on.
auf eine tiefgründigere Art.
unsere Gedanken verändern kann.
minds with this machine.
versuchen gerade einige zu verändern.
to try to change a few.
Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos gezeigt,
Forum in Davos in January.
of millions of people.
auf das Leben von Millionen haben.
who might not otherwise
in a refugee camp in Jordan.
in Jordanien sitzen.
in Switzerland,
den Vereinten Nationen daran,
United Nations right now
a story in Liberia.
to shoot a story in India.
at the United Nations
that are visiting there.
them to the people
in den Filmen verändern können.
of the people inside of the films.
gerade erst an der Oberfläche
start to scratch the surface
eine so intensive Art zu verbinden,
in a profound way
Medienform gesehen habe.
in any other form of media.
Wahrnehmung verändern.
perception of each other.
to actually change the world.
die Welt wirklich zu verändern.
we become more compassionate,
werden wir teilnahmsvoller,
fühlen uns einander näher
and we become more connected.
dadurch auch menschlicher.
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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