Distributed Remembering: Virtual Reality Testimonies and Immersive Witnessing

Silke Arnold-de Simine; Eugene Chŉg

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-13794-5_14

Distributed Remembering: Virtual Reality Testimonies and Immersive Witnessing

Silke Arnold-de Simine, Eugene Chŉg

School of International Communications

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This chapter looks at the role of Virtual Reality (VR) in testimonies which are co-created by survivors and witnesses, by artists, programmers, designers and audiences, by humans and non-humans. It shows what VR can contribute to testimonial, witnessing and memory practices by exploring the wide spectrum in which VR testimony is currently employed, from realistic reconstructions and 3D immersive virtual environment (IVE) simulating first-hand experience of survivors, to tools for forensic analysis. VR testimony can be found in educational, archaeological, commemorative and judicial contexts and serves a range of functions. This chapter explores the notion of VR as an “empathy machine”, the role of AI in VR testimonies and collective processes of remembering which are increasingly distributed across a network of human and computational agents.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	301-323
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031137945
ISBN (Print)	9783031137938
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13794-5_14
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

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