Western Ideologies on "A Conversation with Spirits Inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse"
The author of this essay, Jackson 2Bears, contrasts Western ideologies that underlie virtual reality with Indigenous concepts for reimagining virtuality. What are the Western ideologies he describes and what alternative ideas are offered by Indigenous artists and theorists like Yuxweluptun?
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Read "A Conversation with Spirits Inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse," Jackson 2Bears, https://journals(dot)uvic(dot)ca/index.php/ctheory/article/view/14679/5549
And watch 6x9: https://www(dot)theguardian(dot)com/world/ng-interactive/2016/apr/27/6x9-a-virtual-experience-of-solitary-confinement (Links to an external site.)
And watch this excerpt from Luxwupten’s’ later VR work “Unceded Territories”:
https://youtu(dot)be/cNxnSaVO3VU
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A conversation with spirits inside the simulation of a coast Salish Longhouse
Jackson 2Bear unravels with is underneath virtual reality with virtual reality undergirding reimagination of indigenous concepts. The conversation heralds the contrast between western virtual ideologies versus indigenous “virtual” realities difference between the two poles of virtual realities is blurred. The indigenous virtual reality may border hallucination and loneliness, but the allure of its irresistibly seductive digital dreamscape becomes real. Thus, it seems that these end sites tend to conflict—the boredom feature in indigenous virtual reality, which often is remedied by western ideologies. Western reality is represented by an emerging and expanding digital landscape. The naïve virtual space has been made to appear scared ceremony with dizzying sounds. In such a space, the western ideologies take you over. You get to disappear from indigenous virtual reality...