Digital Séance

Fabricated Encounters with the Dead

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5934612
AutoresDoron Altaratz (0000-0003-1327-6404, Hadassah Academic College, autor de correspondencia), Tal Morse (0000-0002-9960-620X, University of Bath, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen12
Número11
Páginas635
Fecha de publicación2023-11-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci12110635
OpenAlexW4388723015
IdiomaCA
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas20

Digital afterlife is becoming increasingly possible due to advancements in VR, deepfake, and AI technologies. The use of computational photography for mourning and commemoration has been re-integrated into practices of remembrance, farewell, continuity, and disengagement. Two case studies, the Shoah Foundation's Dimensions in Testimony and the TV production Meeting You, are analyzed to explore these new possibilities. We show how photography's new affordances enable interaction while maintaining its essence as a representation of reality and argue that this socio-technological transformation habituates contemporary practices of mourning and commemoration, adjusting images to serve the individual needs and interests of the bereaved and the community

Aesthetics · Affordance · Afterlife · Art · Disengagement theory · Human–computer interaction · Literature · Photography · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Photography and Visual Culture