PAST PROJECT (2021-2022)
The transitional spectator of Virtual Reality
Summary of the project:
The goal of the project was to determine how viewers/users of non-fiction VR experience space, and how this experience of space relates to aesthetic choices. My hypothesis is that VR works build transitional spaces, willingly or unwillingly, through both aesthetics and the technology. For the project, we have interviewed 15 participants after they experienced the VR work The book of distance.
Publications
- From Cinema to Virtual Reality and Back: Aesthetics, Technologies, and Spectatorship, with co-editor Kata Szita. Edited volume on the crossovers between cinema and virtual reality. Forthcoming with Routledge, 2026.
- Queering Cultural Memory Through Technology: Transitional Spaces in AR and VR, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2021
- Immersive Storytelling and Affective Ethnography in Virtual Reality, The Review of Communication, 2021. With co-author Chris Ingraham.
- Reported on by the National Communication Association: CAN WE SEE FROM ONE ANOTHER’S PERSPECTIVE USING VIRTUAL REALITY? 5 August 2021
- Post-cinematic spectatorship in virtual reality: Negotiating 3DoF and 6DoF in ‘Queerskins: Ark’, NECSUS, 2021
Conference presentations and dissemination
- Workshop organised: VR SeminAR, 15th of April 2021, University of Bergen, Online.
- A set of presentations and conversations on experience, engagement and mediation in Virtual Reality, Augmented reality and Mixed Reality
- ‘Refiguring Empathy and Immersion in Narrative VR: Empirical Insights‘ by Astrid Ensslin and Maud Ceuterick, “Questioning immersion”, University of Bergen, 2-3 June 2022
- ‘Ethnographic and Empathetic Audiences in VR’, Zip-Scene Conference: Immersive Storytelling, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Hungary, 30 Sep.-2 Oct. 2021
- ‘The Transitional Spectator: into the Haptic Space of Postcinema’, NECS: Europen Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Palermo, Italy (online) 7-13. Jun. 2021
- ‘The aurality of post-cinema: Towards an affirmative queer space’, FilmForum: XXVII International Film and Media Studies Conference, Gorizia-Udine, Italy (online), 2-4 Nov. 2020, (Video, passwd: UFF2020)
Maud Ceuterick 