What do you think of the discussion of the use of virtual realities, of new world structures which are made not only of words but also of images and three dimensional objects? People are discussing whether we are creating new forms of art and even a new concept of aesthetics.
David kolb - I think at the moment it is difficult for us to foresee because these new tools open so many possibilities and it is not clear what are the best ways or even what are the many possible ways to use them. I suspect that just as there is no one form of art which is the print form of art: there is poetry, there are novels, there are diaries, many different things.
So too virtual reality will end up spawning different kinds of art which will have quite different aesthetics. I think in some ways the kind which creates the most interesting problems for us is the kind where you would have abrupt juxtapositions of images and spaces. You might imagine for instance a virtual reality room that looks something like the library where we are now, and I go through the door and I am in the Baths of Caracalla, and then I go through another door and I am at my home in America. And this juxtaposition, this abrupt transition, could be used for artistic purposes. The difficulty is to use it in a way which does not become boring.
The problem of boredom comes when the reader or the experiencer senses that: "When I go through the next door, absolutely anything can happen." That is exciting but there is no playing with my expectations. There is no ability then to surprise me because I expected something else, and so your artistic tools become limited oddly by the fact that you have now allowed absolutely anything to happen.
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