The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie

Jenna Ng

book: The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2021

The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections

Where Screen Boundaries Lie

Jenna Ng

In the series MediaMatters

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552566

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About this book

Screens are ubiquitous today. Yet contemporary screen media eliminate the presence of the screen and diminish the visibility of its boundaries. As the image becomes indistinguishable from the viewer’s surroundings, this unsettling prompts re.examination of how screen boundaries demarcate. Through readings of three media forms – Virtual Reality; holograms; and light projections – this book develops new theories of the surfaces on and spaces in which images are displayed. Interrogating contemporary contestations of reality against illusion, it argues that the disappearance of difference reflects shifted conditions of actuality and virtuality in understanding the human condition. These shifts further connect to the current state of politics by way of their distorted truth values, corrupted terms of information, and internalizations of difference. The Post.Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections thus thinks anew the image’s borders and delineations, evoking the screen boundary as an instrumentation of today’s intense virtualizations which do not tell the truth. In the process, a new imagination for images emerges for a gluttony of the virtual; for new conceptualizations of object and representation, materiality and energies, media and histories, real and unreal; for new understandings of appearances, dis-appearances, replacement and re.placement – the post-screen.

Author / Editor information

Ng Jenna :

Jenna Ng is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Film and Interactive Media at the University of York, UK. She writes on digital media and visual culture. She is also the editor of Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (2013).

Reviews

The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections received an Honourable Mention in the category Best First Monograph at the BAFTSS Publication Awards 2023

"Jenna Ng's book is an exciting read. The goals are ambitious: to uncover the emerging culture of 'post-screens' that bleed into our lives and environments; to understand their position within the tradition of screen media from early modernity onwards; and to reflect on how they shape our experience and understanding today. Reassessing the concepts of virtuality, illusion, and death, this powerful book constructs its argument with skill, care, and insight, and succeeds to disclose something essential about the contemporary 'human condition.'"
- Pasi Väliaho, University of Oslo

"Jenna Ng presents us with a convincing argument: while traditional frames of the pictorial are vanishing, the screen becomes internalised onto the body of the spectator. The book looks at the future of post-screen media with the best approach I can think of: a strong sense of history and an insightful philosophical toolkit. Warmly recommended for and beyond media and film studies students and scholars."
- Jussi Parikka, FAMU (Prague) and University of Southampton (UK)

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
MediaMatters Open Access Download PDF	2
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	11
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	15
1. Screen Boundaries as Movement Open Access Download PDF	51
2. Leaking at the Edges Open Access Download PDF	79
3. Virtual Reality: Confinement and Engulfment; Replacement and Re- placement Open Access Download PDF	107
4. Holograms/Holographic Projections : Ghosts Amongst the Living; Ghosts of the Living Open Access Download PDF	155
4A. (Remix) True Holograms: A Different Kind of Screen; A Different Kind of Ghost Open Access Download PDF	189
5. Light Projections: On the Matter of Light and the Lightness of Matter Open Access Download PDF	207
Conclusion/Coda Open Access Download PDF	253
Index Open Access Download PDF	275

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 282
Keywords: Screens; virtual reality (VR); Pepper's Ghost; holograms; projection mapping

eBook

Published: November 28, 2021
ISBN: 9789048552566