VR Imagine: Dr. Thomas Hohstadt
Channel: XRVienna
Date: 12/06/2016

Dr. Thomas Hohstadt, a Senior Lecturer in the University of Texas system, was the first to develop an online course for Virtual Reality as a language and as an art-form. In his two recent books, The Age of Virtual Reality and Film Music, he shows the integral relationship of these two fields.

At this edition of VRVienna, Dr. Hohstadt have lead a provocative deep dive into the nature of media, felt meaning, and our relationship to both. He sees Virtual Reality as the first intellectual discipline that permits the active use of the body in the search for knowledge. He reminds us, at the same time, that VR is impossible without emotions, feelings, and senses. As a result of this historic moment, our body has become part of our “thinking” even while our educational institutions remain thoroughly wedded to the logic of the ancient Greeks.

(c) Music: Scott Holmes - Rainbow Street