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Milo Moir\u00e9\u2019s performance series \u201cCeci n\u2019est pas une femme nue\u201d (This is not a naked woman) is a rudimentary and, to a certain extent, pioneering documentation of augmented reality (AR). The world we live in is full of computer-based reproductions. We often prefer to view the digital image rather than wishing to grasp the direct original with all our senses. This has led to an altered grammar of perception. We have augmented our reality through new technologies like smartphones. The era of a visible new reality has begun.<\/p>\n
For her performances Moir\u00e9 puts on a virtual reality (VR) headset and visits various major art exhibitions, for example, Documenta 14 in Kassel. She does so naked. On her backside and pubic area, binary codes represent the word \u201cdigitized\u201d through a sequence of the digits 0 and 1. The sentence \u201cCeci n\u2019est pas une femme nue\u201d can be read between Moir\u00e9\u2019s shoulders and on her chest. With her VR headset, the artist looks at an iPhone placed directly in front of her eyes. It provides an indirect, virtual view of the artworks supplemented with additional information, such as her coordinates. At the same time, Facebook viewers can follow and comment on the digital video images from Moir\u00e9\u2019s VR headset in real time. A second camera simultaneously films the artist from an external perspective.<\/p>\n
The Surrealist painter Ren\u00e9 Magritte made it clear that \u201can image is not to be confused with something you can touch\u201d. In 1928 he painted a picture of a pipe and wrote \u201cCeci n\u2019est pas une pipe\u201d (This is not a pipe) on to the painting. \u201cCan you fill my pipe? Of course not! It is only a representation. If I had written \u2018This is a pipe\u2019 on my picture, I would have been lying\u201d, explained Magritte.<\/p>\n
Almost exactly 90 years later, we find ourselves in the midst of a profound revolution. Our perspective on the world has completely changed. Today, instead of merging dream and reality like the Surrealists, we expand our real world through virtual aspects. Magritte\u2019s pipe is more relevant than ever. Moir\u00e9 provides a contemporarily relevant illustration of this through her performance \u201cCeci n\u2019est pas une femme nue\u201d.<\/p>\n
We catch sight of a naked woman through digital media, but we can\u2019t stroke her skin. \u201cCeci n\u2019est pas une femme nue\u201d raises the question: \u201cHow is the public space changing, as the digital space now replaces or, alternatively, reshapes the public space? As the digital nude superimposes itself over the optical nude? Is the reproduction and distribution in digital space triggering a disintegration in real space?\u201d<\/p>\n
People are connected in real time in front of their screens and take in additional information which goes beyond their eyes. The real body is shifting into the digital space. Will this result in our isolating ourselves within augmented reality? Paradoxically feeling trapped in our bodies through this expansion? Or will we finally dissolve the body beyond recognition within the digital space? \u201cCeci n\u2019est pas une femme nue.\u201d Really?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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