Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
Chris Milk: Comment la réalité virtuelle peut créer un dispositif empathique exceptionnel
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.
de façon inhabituelle,
I was seven years old.
à l'âge de 7 ans.
to access virtual reality
that particular item:
over 100 feet at top speed.
dans les airs.
jumped the Snake River Canyon together.
Canyon ensemble.
I only got the motorcycle.
when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.
cascadeur, pas écrivain.
music videos that I made:
de Kanye West)
some slight similarities here.
de légères similitudes.
or, the beginning of a filmmaker,
available to me as a filmmaker
à la disposition d'un réalisateur
that I can to an audience.
le plus captivantes possible.
that allows us to feel empathy
communiquer de l'empathie
foreign from our own.
empathy for us that we felt for him,
pour Evel Knievel
that I worshipped as a child,
étant petit,
to become as an adult,
en grandissant,
exceptionnel
now as it was then.
avec le temps.
played in a sequence.
l'un après l'autre.
with those rectangles.
avec ces rectangles.
and developing technologies
et émergentes
the traditional tools of filmmaking
avec les outils traditionnels du cinéma
to build the ultimate empathy machine.
la machine à empathie.
(La Ville Sauvage),
"The Wilderness Downtown."
where you grew up at the beginning of it.
où vous avez grandi.
boxes with different browser windows.
dans différentes fenêtres.
running down a street,
Google Street View,
and Google Maps imagery
he's running down is yours.
c'est dans votre rue qu'il court.
he stops in front of your house.
face de votre maison.
having an even deeper emotional reaction
des réactions émotionelles
I had made in rectangles.
que j'avais créés.
a piece of your history
de votre passé
the framing of the story.
inside of the frame?
dans ce cadre ?
des installations artistiques.
making art installations.
« la Trahison du Sanctuaire ».
"The Treachery of Sanctuary."
le troisième panneau.
you the third panel.
au centre du cadre,
visceral emotional reactions
très viscérales,
and what do they represent?
ce qu'ils représentent.
television, cinema --
télévision, cinéma,
these other worlds.
sur d'autres mondes.
I got you in a frame.
au centre du cadre.
I don't want you in the window,
dans le cadre ou la fenêtre,
I want you on the other side,
de l'autre côté,
is like dancing about architecture.
danser sur de l'architecture.
about architecture in virtual reality.
de l'architecture, en réalité virtuelle.
Why is it difficult to explain?
Pourquoi ?
experiential medium.
basé sur les sensations.
it feels like truth.
that you're inside
that you're inside of it with.
les gens autour de vous.
of a virtual reality film:
d'un film en réalité virtuelle.
des données que l'on enregistre
all the information
we shoot virtual reality.
des caméras 3D
in every direction
that face in every direction.
chaque direction.
a sphere of a world that you inhabit.
du monde autour de vous.
is not a view into the world,
à l'intérieur de ce monde,
stretched into a rectangle.
un rectangle.
"Clouds Over Sidra,"
our virtual reality company called VRSE
notre entreprise de réalité virtuelle,
in Jordan in December
camp de réfugiés syriens en Jordanie
girl there named Sidra.
une fillette de 12 ans.
through the desert into Jordan
à travers le désert de Jordanie,
camp for the last year and a half.
depuis un an et demi.
in the Daraa Province, Inkhil City.
dans la province de Daraa.
in Jordan for the last year and a half.
en Jordanie, dans le camp Zaatari.
I was a baby and he says I did not.
quand j'étais bébé, il m'a dit que non.
than my brother.
mon frère.
of the headset.
sur la tête,
360 degrees, in all directions.
dans toutes les directions.
in her room, watching her,
et la regardez,
a television screen,
you're sitting there with her.
à côté d'elle.
on the same ground that she's sitting on.
sur le même sol qu'elle.
minds with this machine.
avec cette machine.
to try to change a few.
Forum in Davos in January.
Forum Economique Mondial à Davos.
of millions of people.
de personnes.
who might not otherwise
n'auraient pas eu l'occasion
in a refugee camp in Jordan.
dans un camp de réfugiés en Jordanie.
in Switzerland,
de janvier, en Suisse,
United Nations right now
les Nations-Unies
a story in Liberia.
to shoot a story in India.
at the United Nations
that are visiting there.
et à ceux qui y passent.
them to the people
of the people inside of the films.
les vies des personnes dans ces films.
start to scratch the surface
à effleurer le sujet
de la réalité virtuelle.
in a profound way
extraordinaire
in any other form of media.
avec les autres supports.
perception of each other.
to actually change the world.
de vraiment révolutionner le monde.
we become more compassionate,
de compassion,
and we become more connected.
plus proches des autres.
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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