With "DeathTolls Experience," up-and-coming Iranian virtual reality artist Ali Eslami is seeking to resensitize the general public to the reality behind the abstract statistics on the hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Middle East. When news media bombard us with facts and figures every day, they gradually lose their emotional urgency. Eventually, our brains automatically filter out this dry “data reality,” even though it is crying out for our attention. The war in Syria is a good example. Eslami takes this psychological effect as the starting point for an investigation of how virtual reality can not only restore empathy, but also provide a context to news reports.
Intense, depressing, but meaningful. I downloaded this a while ago and was looking for “experience” apps in my library to watch once and then delete to free up space on the PC so when I started watching, I had no idea what this was about. As it started to unfold I wondered was this about the Holocaust, a war, future disaster due to climate change, Covid? And I see now it’s about Syria, but in a sense it doesn’t matter. It’s about any unnecessary man made death toll. The app itself is eerie, horrific but even beautiful at times and eye opening. A very well done artistic representation of the horrors that can be perpetrated by man.
投稿者：Alicia Wonderland
★5
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スケールの大きさを力強く実証する。 短い。重要。再認識させる
投稿者：Pierce Delahunt
Powerful Demonstration of Scale. Short. Important. Re-sensitizing
Pretty cool, I'd say. You experience a series of scenes that all are about death or the apocalypse or whatever, maybe it's more meta than I'm letting on, but actually no, it says it's about all the people who die in the middle east. It's fairly on the nose, with lots of people in body bags.
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