Panel Statement

Panel: Sharing Subjectivities

This paper will explore two sets of virtual environments —Virtual Bodies, and NBC’s virtual environments as used in the OJ Simpson trial— as sites of continual contestation and negotiation among social, political, economic, and technological forces; as phenomena through which notions of subjectivity flow and collide; and as demonstrations of the incommensurability of pain and terror. This immersive, interactive virtual environment is comprised of digital data obtained from technologies which are able to extend our perception to apprehend previously inaccessible properties of our bodies.

• Diane Gromala (USA) is Director of the New Media Research Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. She teaches cross-disciplinary courses in New Media. Her most recent VR research is with the Human Interface Technology Lab.