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- Title
«If blindness creates a new world»: générer et expérimenter la cécité en réalité virtuelle.
- Authors
Roussel, Céline
- Abstract
Drawing on media narratology, key concepts of Game Studies and Roland Barthes' game theory in order to explore more thoroughly an issue springing from the Anglo-Saxon academic field of Disability Studies, this paper examines the virtual reality experience Notes on Blindness, which is based on the diary published by the blind academic John Martin Hull (1935-2015) and is part of a transmedia project directed by a Franco-British team, broadcast by ARTE in October 2016. We contend that virtual reality opens up a new space which leads us to think about, and behold blindness in radically different ways: halfway between short film and video game, Notes on Blindness VR creates an audiovisual space that is both fictional and autobiographical, and whose multiple voices allow an innovative exploration of blindness. In contrast to the concept of "narrative prosthesis" outlined by disability theorists David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder in their famous work from 2001, this virtual reality program engenders narratively, spatially and temporally a sharing of blind and sighted subjectivities, and consequently turns out to be an interactive digital prosthesis best placed to celebrate blindness as an augmentation of sensory experience.
- Subjects
HULL (England); BARTHES, Roland, 1915-1980; VIRTUAL reality; GAME theory; SHORT films; DISABILITY studies; VIDEO games; NARRATOLOGY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2019, Vol 8, Issue 6, p108
- ISSN
1929-9192
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15353/cjds.v8i6.582