Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
クリス・ミルク: 仮想現実が究極の感情移入マシーンを作り出すまで
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.
少し変わっていました
I was seven years old.
わずか7才の頃です
to access virtual reality
使ったツールは
スタント用バイクでした
that particular item:
驚異のスタント・バイク
over 100 feet at top speed.
高速走行が可能です
大のお気に入りでした
乗っている気分でした
jumped the Snake River Canyon together.
スネーク・リバー峡谷の大ジャンプもです
I only got the motorcycle.
when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.
スタントマンになりたかったんです
イーヴルは友達でした
撮るようになりました
music videos that I made:
『タッチ・ザ・スカイ』
some slight similarities here.
or, the beginning of a filmmaker,
その端くれになり
available to me as a filmmaker
that I can to an audience.
ストーリーを伝えようとしました
that allows us to feel empathy
foreign from our own.
empathy for us that we felt for him,
私たちに感情移入してくれなかったようで
that I worshipped as a child,
子どもの頃に憧れた人 ―
to become as an adult,
now as it was then.
played in a sequence.
長方形なんです
with those rectangles.
すごいことを実現してきました
考えるようになりました
and developing technologies
ストーリーを語るために
the traditional tools of filmmaking
語り切れないような
to build the ultimate empathy machine.
感情移入マシーンを作ることです
"The Wilderness Downtown."
where you grew up at the beginning of it.
住所を入力します
boxes with different browser windows.
別ウインドウで立ち上がります
running down a street,
and Google Maps imagery
Googleマップの画像で
he's running down is yours.
自分が育った辺りだとわかります
he stops in front of your house.
それは あなたの家の前です
having an even deeper emotional reaction
それまで長方形の画面で作ってきたものより
I had made in rectangles.
返ってきました
a piece of your history
生い立ちの一部を拾い上げて
the framing of the story.
inside of the frame?
ストーリーに組み込めるだろう?」
making art installations.
制作を始めました
"The Treachery of Sanctuary."
you the third panel.
3番目のパネルをご覧ください
フレームの中に捉えていて
visceral emotional reactions
心からの反応が
and what do they represent?
考えるようになりました
television, cinema --
テレビにしろ映画にしろ
these other worlds.
I got you in a frame.
相手をフレームに取り込んでしまおう
I don't want you in the window,
窓に はめ込むのではなく
I want you on the other side,
反対側に行き
入り込むようにしたいんです
is like dancing about architecture.
建築をダンスで表現するようなものです
about architecture in virtual reality.
ダンスで建築を表すと こんな感じです
Why is it difficult to explain?
では なぜ難しいのか?
experiential medium.
it feels like truth.
that you're inside
that you're inside of it with.
一緒にいるような気持ちになります
of a virtual reality film:
ご覧に入れましょう
all the information
we shoot virtual reality.
in every direction
その方向に向けられた
that face in every direction.
a sphere of a world that you inhabit.
球体状の世界を作ります
is not a view into the world,
世界を内部から眺めたものではなく
stretched into a rectangle.
"Clouds Over Sidra,"
our virtual reality company called VRSE
in Jordan in December
シリア難民キャンプを訪れて
girl there named Sidra.
through the desert into Jordan
シリアを脱出し ヨルダンに来ました
camp for the last year and a half.
もう1年半になります
in the Daraa Province, Inkhil City.
in Jordan for the last year and a half.
暮らして1年半になります
1人はまだ赤ちゃんです
I was a baby and he says I did not.
父さんに聞いたけど 泣かなかったそうです
than my brother.
強かったんだと思います
of the headset.
360 degrees, in all directions.
見えるはずです
in her room, watching her,
本人を前にして座っている時は
a television screen,
見ているのではなく
you're sitting there with her.
on the same ground that she's sitting on.
彼女と同じ地面に座っています
minds with this machine.
心を動かせると考えています
to try to change a few.
心を動かそうとしています
Forum in Davos in January.
世界経済フォーラムに持って行き
of millions of people.
見てもらいました
who might not otherwise
in a refugee camp in Jordan.
テントに座ることなどなかったでしょう
in Switzerland,
さらに制作することにしています
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
of the people inside of the films.
start to scratch the surface
仮想現実が持つ本当の力の
使っているだけだと思います
in a profound way
比べものにならない位
in any other form of media.
perception of each other.
変えることができます
to actually change the world.
世界を変える力を持っているのです
we become more compassionate,
より思いやりをもち
and we become more connected.
より つながり合えます
より人間らしくなれるのです
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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