Maurice Benayoun

From Virtual to Public Space. Towards an Impure Art

Theme 1: Understanding Mixed Reality? / Spaces for Emergent Communication

Maurice Benayoun

Maurice Benayoun

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Abstract

The digital world, with the development of the Internet, leads to consider the end of boundaries in terms of writing space. We are used to saying that political and geographical frontiers have been erased by the upcoming of the Internet, that pictures, text, music, animation film and interactive media are now parts of the same workspace. Outside the Internet there is a limit brandished as the ultimate banner: the limit between the virtual and the real. This goes with the limits between Art and crafts, real life and illusion, tea and milk...

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MARS Exploratory Media Lab under the patronage of Edelgard Bulmahn, German Federal Minister for Education and Research

Location

Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Submission

, Mar 4, 2004

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