The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections

Jenna Ng is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Film and Interactive Media at the University of York, UK. She writes on digital media and visual culture. She is also the editor of Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (2013).

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Post-Screen Media: Meshing the Chain Mail
Eroding Boundaries in the Contemporary Mediascape
Why Boundaries Matter
Chapter Outlines
The Post-what?

1 Screen Boundaries as Movement
Re-placing the Screen: Play and Display, Appearance and Dis-Appearance
Screen Boundaries: Physical and Virtual, and of the Movement Betwixt
Metaphors for the Screen
Crossing Screen Boundaries: Love, Pleasure, Information, Transformation
Interactivity and the Moveable Window
Screen Boundaries Across Dimensions

2 Leaking at the Edges
Protections and Partitions
Rupturing Screen Boundaries
Interplay between Fictional and Factual Threat
Leaking at the Edges: The Merging of the Amalgamated Real
Virtual Co-location in Real-time… and in the Era of Covid-19
The Screen Boundary Against the Algorithm
Screen Boundaries in Flux

3 Virtual Reality: Confinement and Engulfment; Replacement and Re-placement
"Multitudes of Amys"
On Immersion (Briefly)
The Affective Surround: The Two Vectors of Immersion
The Post-Screen Through VR (1): Confinement and Engulfment
The Post-Screen Through VR (2): Replacement and Re-placement
The Danger Paradox
VR as Immersion: Travel, Escape, Fulfilment
VR as Inversion: Witness, Empathy, Subjectivity
Defeated by the Ghosts

4 Holograms/Holographic Projections : Ghosts Amongst the Living; Ghosts of the Living
How We See Ghosts, or, In Love with the Post-Screen
Ghosts in the Media: Re-inventing the Afterlife
The Post-Screen Through Holograms/Holographic Projections
Holographic Projections (1): Ghosts Amongst the Living – Limbo Between Deadness and Aliveness
Holographic Projections (2): Ghosts of the Living – Vivification of the Virtual Real
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Substitution

4A (Remix) True Holograms: A Different Kind of Screen; A Different Kind of Ghost
Screens and Ghosts, or, the Window and the Guy in the Basement
True Holograms
A Different Kind of Screen: Brains, Nerves, Thought
A Different Kind of Ghost: "A Memory, A Daydream, A Secret," or, Digital Apparitions

5 Light Projections: On the Matter of Light and the Lightness of Matter
The City Rises
The Light Rises, or, Light as the Matter of Light
Cities of Screens
Light Projections (1): Light that Dissolves and Constructs… and of Latency
Light Projections (2): Walls that Fall Apart… and Re-Form
Light Projections (3): Particles that Gain a Body… and Transform
Projection Mapping (1): The Image that Devours Structure; the Voracity that is a Media History
Projection Mapping (2): The Exterior that Reveals; the Permanence that Fades
The Ground Beneath Our Feet

Conclusion/Coda
Postscripts to the Post-Screen: The Holiday and the Global Pandemic
Twin Obsessions (1): Difference
Twin Obsessions (2): The Gluttony
The Post-Screen in the Time of Covid-19

Index