NOV 11  15:30 - 16:15

Entertainment Stage  Discussion

Track  Virtual Production

Experiencing Digital Humans – From Uncanny Valley

to Suspension of Disbelief?

Can digital humans be empathetic? Shudu is the world’s first digital supermodel, James Cameron created Alita in Battle Angel: Alita, Lil Miquela – created by two men – is a virtual influencer with over 1.5 million Instagram followers. 

In this talk, we will meet a performance artist and her avatar, Em: is this a “truer” or more “comfortable” version of who she actually is? Do we suspend disbelief when interacting with an avatar – by “defaulting to truth”, as Malcolm Gladwell puts it? Creators of digital humans are often said to be a combination of engineer and poet. But what will interaction with digital humans do to our perception of what it means to be human?

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