An audience in the Italian city of Paestum watches a performance of the VR-enhanced play Animate by director Chris Salter.
"I wanted to explore the tension between the real world and the increasingly digital world through the lens of climate change, where people are increasingly distant from their actual physical environment and living more in digital spaces," said Salter. "So the idea was to crash these things together to create an interesting tension."Chris Salter, the director of Animate, is an artist and former professor at Concordia University in Montreal.
"I was interested in climate transformation, and Canada is obviously ground zero for it," said Salter. Story, who saw the play last summer when it premiered at the Kunstfest Weimar in Germany, says the technology Salter and his team use is not a frill, but a transformative amplification of the themes she explores in her story.
Salter isn't interested in getting rid of screens, but in exploring how far he can go in seeing how the physical world can be computationally shaped. He cites what's known in VR parlance as "the plausibility illusion" — where people act as if something's real, while knowing it's not — and its similarity to the suspension of belief that's necessary in theatre.
"Everyone expects the arts to save the world now," he said. "But arts exist in the imaginary, in what is possible."
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