Render Ghost─Imagination and Practice of Immersive Virtual Ritual Theater

• Main Authors: FENG, HAN-YU, 馮涵宇
• Other Authors: YUAN, GOANG-MING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nc4mf3

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 新媒體藝術學系碩士班 === 107 === Render Ghost is an immersive virtual ritual theater which started with an inquiry of the origin and home of our spirits. In the drastic development of technology, the boundary of life consciousness has been expanding and shifting. Among which, one sci-fi story about human spirits uploaded to a virtual network aspires to walk out from the fantasy and enter into reality. The spirit comes along with our physical bodies; would it leave the world in the form of information? While how would the identity certificate of disembodied spirit transform and where will the life travel eventually? These questions are rooted in the primitive desire where humankind resist death. The virtual spirit, as a new pattern of life following the state of the human, outlines a new arrives at the reconstruction of post-human ethics. This artist statement aims to interpret concepts and research questions around the work Render Ghost which takes a mythological framework of post-humanity as a summons, adjusting the relational network between sci-fi narratives and ritual theater. Externally, the work redefines the position of humankind in the process of evolution and informatic history, rethinking the knowledge system which regards objects and non-human lives as the object. With such a concept, I re-comprehend how post-human cross the line of the limitation of death and the border of self-existing fantasy. While internally, I would like to trace the origin of theater and rituals, and further impose the rethinking of technological products, cybernetics, and virtuality into the imaginative diagram of ritual theater, trying to strike the bottom of senses and unconsciousness by the exploration of new media. It allows the audience arrive place where knowledge and rationality can’t reach, digging the spiritual tunnel and returning back to the origin, exploring the imagination of evolution and transcendence.