Kate, your distinction between immersion as embodied encounter and immersion as spectacle is essential. We have found the same at Cybel’Art: the decisive moment is not visual astonishment but the viewer’s spatial relationship to a real performer captured volumetrically. Perhaps the next taxonomy should separate experiences that merely surround the audience from those that preserve agency, presence and relationality.
Kate, your distinction between immersion as embodied encounter and immersion as spectacle is essential. We have found the same at Cybel’Art: the decisive moment is not visual astonishment but the viewer’s spatial relationship to a real performer captured volumetrically. Perhaps the next taxonomy should separate experiences that merely surround the audience from those that preserve agency, presence and relationality.