About

With Ghislaine Chabert, we organized in 2008 in a research group of the University Savoie Mont-Blanc in Annecy (France) a first international event on visual methods entitled “Visual and sensory methodologies to research and represent hypermedia and virtual practices. Dorle Drackle (DE), Edgar Gomez Cruz (ES), Francesco Lapenta (DK), Sarah Pink (UK), Izabel Meister (BR), José da Silva Ribeiro (PO) and Giuseppe Losacco (IT) were present. It was an opportunity to discuss in scientific terms the research works in social sciences made up of both written documents and audiovisual productions (film; website; video game; hologram; application; etc.).

The first objective of this Web site is to contribute to the continuation of the epistemological discussion on these visual and digital methods which evolve. For that, it is necessary to preserve works, in a context of fast obsolescence of the software and difficulties of the research groups and the libraries to archive correctly these works. This is why we try to preserve works that we have directed or co-directed, despite the disappearance of some productions.

This site takes the name of a multidisciplinary exhibition that took place in 2011 at the University of North Texas in Dallas Denton (USA): visualdistance.com

Jacques Ibanez Bueno - Full Professor

Political Hologram

Luis Felipe Ramirez Alvarado - Jacques Ibanez Bueno

Research questions on the hologram posibilities as interface for different contents

- Is the hologram a novel interface that favors communicative processes due to its physical and projection characteristics? (volume, dimension, realism)
- Is the hologram a more real representation and therefore more effective as a possible virtual communication interface?
- The relevance of the media presented through the hologram is enhanced by the medium itself?

28th April 2017 in Grenoble (France) : French political leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon used a hologram to be represented in front of an audience during a real meeting in Dijon (simultaneous time).
- To propose hypothesis about the modality of this process of communication.
- What is the bodily relation between political leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his audience?

Take a look at a few holograms that students made

References

2018 Luis Felipe Ramirez Alvarado et Jacques Ibanez Bueno "The visual representation of the hologram : a comparative approach to its political and social uses" in Visual methods for research in the fields of communication, International conference, labellisé SFSIC. La Laguna, Espagne, 3-4/12/2018