The Virtual

Authors

  • Rinde Eckert Writer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/sjtds.v7i1.317

Abstract

“Virtue” is the crux of this essay.  What is the virtue of describing a two-dimensional representation of reality as “virtual?”  Isn’t a screen a screen? Large or small, made of glass or bed sheets, the screen holds an image, a representation, of something that is not present.  Whether the image is generated by a 16mm movie projector or a television broadcast studio or a computer, there is no escaping the fact of the screen; all these forms of transmission are two-dimensional, existing on a flat plane.  To be sure, there are qualitative differences among all these media, but the images are all animations on screens. Why the term “virtual performance” when the medium has none of the virtues of live performance?

Keywords: virtual; virtual theatre; virtual performance

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Published

2021-06-30

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Monographic Section