Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: The Importance of Physical Place in the Vlogosphere
20 videos | Curated by Patricia Lange
The prediction that human bodies would exist merely as meat while minds connected in cyberspace has not come true. Physical places and embodied encounters within them remain inseperable parts of human experience. The vlogosphere is filled with video blogs that intimately explore physical places in fascinating ways. In this session, we will see how video bloggers turn familiar places such as a hallway, an elevator, an open field, an airport restaurant, a bus, and a kitchen into strange, beautiful, and sometimes frightening places that influence a video blogger's life in subtle yet significant ways. Through visual engagements with light, sound, temperature, people, animals, objects, and other characteristics, the video bloggers in this session help us understand how important sense of place is to the human experience both in the vlogosphere and offline.
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