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Published in Immerse

·Dec 29, 2021

The Weight of Virtual Reality: An Interview with Minhyuk Che

The SK Telecom VR/AR producer discusses narrative forms in social VR, asymmetric storytelling, and public-private partnerships — Minhyuk Che is a VR creator based in Seoul, South Korea, with nearly a decade of experience in VR, from filmmaking to researching social VR platforms. As a VR/AR producer at SK Telecom, a leading company in South Korea’s metaverse market, Che produces the web-drama IFLAND entirely on the ifland…

Metaverse

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The Weight of Virtual Reality: An Interview with Minhyuk Che
The Weight of Virtual Reality: An Interview with Minhyuk Che
Metaverse

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Jun 3, 2021

gy with immer…t media’s relationship to its users, which harken back to the old days of media effects. By contrast, the use of narrative psychology with immersive media does not assume mechanistic effects, but rather provides a diagnostic instrument for understanding users’ meaning-making strategies — and the varieties of their narrative encounters.

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I love how this paragraph acknowledges the techno-determinism latent in empirical claims about…

I love how this paragraph acknowledges the techno-determinism latent in empirical claims about media's effects, which often essentializes the human experience in Eurocentric ways. Narrative psychology sounds like a useful concept that creates space for self reflexivity in immersive media experiences

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Published in Immerse

·Oct 15, 2020

Space-Making at Venice VR Expanded

An interview with Vincenzo Cavallo Faras (African Space Makers) — This year, Venice VR Expanded (September 2–12, 2020) was fully accessible online as well as at 15 “satellite” locations around the world. Preserving spontaneous encounters and engaging conversations, Venice’s experimentations in social VR brought “buzz” to its virtual programming. Festival-goers could access event spaces and live performances hosted in social…

Virtual Reality

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Field Notes: Space-Making at Venice VR Expanded
Field Notes: Space-Making at Venice VR Expanded
Virtual Reality

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Published in Immerse

·Oct 2, 2020

Emergent Storytelling in the New Age of Social AR

Hacking SparkAR and Lens Studio as AR tools that go beyond the typical selfie filter — This article has been researched and developed at the MIT Open DocLab with Alex Herrero, a fellow from the MIT Summer Research Program. Throughout the past decade, extensive scholarship, documentaries, and experimental pieces in multiplayer worlds such as Second Life interrogated the fluid boundaries between virtual and real worlds. Since…

Augmented Reality

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Emergent Storytelling in the New Age of Social AR
Emergent Storytelling in the New Age of Social AR
Augmented Reality

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Published in Immerse

·Aug 18, 2020

Gentrification and Social Confinement after Prison

An interview with Zahra Rasool, creator of VR film Still Here — Still Here is an immersive, multimedia installation exploring incarceration, erasure, and gentrification through the lens of a fictional character named Jasmine Smith who returns to Harlem, NYC after 15 years in prison. Crafted in collaboration with formerly incarcerated women from Women’s Prison Association, the experience comprises three parts — interactive…

Incarceration

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Gentrification and Social Confinement after Prison
Gentrification and Social Confinement after Prison
Incarceration

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Published in Immerse

·Mar 2, 2020

The Artist-Engineer in VR

In conversation with Xin Liu and Qinya Guo — This interview was conducted by Andrea Kim and Samuel Mendez, research assistants at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab. The conversation has been edited and condensed for space and clarity. At Sundance New Frontiers 2020, Xin Liu and Qinya (Jenny) Guo debuted Living Distance, a VR piece about the journey of Liu’s…

VR

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The Artist-Engineer in VR: In conversation with Xin Liu and Qinya Guo
The Artist-Engineer in VR: In conversation with Xin Liu and Qinya Guo
VR

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Published in Immerse

·Mar 2, 2020

New Frontiers at Sundance Film Festival

Human touch, social space, archiving for the future, and more — This year’s New Frontier exhibitions at Sundance showcased the explosive creativity that storytellers are tapping into as the technologies for immersive expression are maturing. Several works invited participants to explore dissociative states of consciousness by integrating both narrative and embodied methods in VR, even introducing waterproof headsets, snorkels, and swimming…

VR

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Field Notes: New Frontiers at Sundance Film Festival
Field Notes: New Frontiers at Sundance Film Festival
VR

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Published in Immerse

·Nov 21, 2019

Q&A: Arnaud Dressen of Wonda VR

The CEO and founder discusses how to navigate transitions in the immersive documentary field, sharing industry trends and insights — Arnaud Dressen is a specialist in new forms of nonfiction storytelling who works with content creators, institutions, and brands to explore the expanded possibilities enabled by new technologies. …

Virtual Reality

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Interview with Wonda VR Founder, Arnaud Dressen
Interview with Wonda VR Founder, Arnaud Dressen
Virtual Reality

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Published in Immerse

·Sep 30, 2019

Navigating the border of academic research and documentary practice: from one graduate student to another

Time ticks on different clocks, moon cycles, and historical epochs around the world. After a summer of fasting and religious festivities, the sight of the new moon marks the new year in the Islamic world. Meanwhile, as fruits and vegetables ripen, agricultural cultures celebrate full harvests that arrive with the…

Education

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Navigating the border of academic research and documentary practice: from one graduate student to…
Navigating the border of academic research and documentary practice: from one graduate student to…
Education

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Nov 23, 2018

Seoullo 7017: an urban facade

The work day was setting into evening. In Seoul, that means it was the beginning of transit lines being pushed to its fullest capacity, the power of automation tested by the sheer mass of people relying on their cards to beep, for doors to open, and machines to deliver. Hordes…

Cities

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Cities

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Documentary Media Artist | Fulbright-SeoulArts Research Fellow | MIT Open Doc Lab Alum

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