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Digital Séance: Fabricated Encounters with the Dead

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  • Doron Altaratz

    (Department of Photographic Communications, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem 9101001, Israel)

  • Tal Morse

    (Department of Photographic Communications, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem 9101001, Israel
    Centre for Death & Society (CDAS), University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK)

Abstract

Digital afterlife is becoming increasingly possible due to advancements in VR, deepfake, and AI technologies. The use of computational photography for mourning and commemoration has been re-integrated into practices of remembrance, farewell, continuity, and disengagement. Two case studies, the Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony and the TV production Meeting You , are analyzed to explore these new possibilities. We show how photography’s new affordances enable interaction while maintaining its essence as a representation of reality and argue that this socio-technological transformation habituates contemporary practices of mourning and commemoration, adjusting images to serve the individual needs and interests of the bereaved and the community.

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  • Doron Altaratz & Tal Morse, 2023. "Digital Séance: Fabricated Encounters with the Dead," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-11, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:11:p:635-:d:1281402
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