Abstract
Instantaneously Mediated Virtual Visions: The Transmedia Circuit of Images, Body and Meanings
Lanfranco Aceti
The paper will address the issues related to reality and virtuality in reshaping a landscape of emotive interactions that confront the processes of identification of the self within increasingly mediated structures that alter and multi-layer the real.
The contemporary mediated processes, based on a mix of visual iconographies that are complex and highly mediated, are often presented as the product of "immediate" exchanges between the object and the viewer. In this context of highly transmediated interactions the circuit between images, body and meanings is anticipated and predicted in an attempt to shape and control the reality of virtual engagements and emotive perceptions.
Within these media structures that are in flux between real and virtual, the transitional remediation concept of old media to new media by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin is not sufficient to explain the interactions between technological structures, creative behaviors, emotive interactions and images. The over-layering processes and hybridizations between media that create new languages and sublanguages, both textual and visual, generate new recontextualizations.
The analyses of the body and its mediated interactions offer the opportunity to rediscover a non-mediated, absolute and mythological relationship of meanings that blend and blur the boundaries with a concept of 'body' as a media language that also acts as an emotive filter and reflects upon methodological media engagements characterized by social issues of instantaneousness, immediate responses, speed and dromology (Paul Virilio).
The paper will conclude by arguing the necessity to recover the meaning and emotive aspect of the interpretations and representations of the concept of reality and virtuality, together with the mythological and social implications, as argued by Pier Paolo Pasolini's work. It will support the research for a new circuit of meanings and emotive interactions that offer to the body forms of representation beyond the physical and technological.
