{"375061":{"#nid":"375061","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What a virtual reality art show could say about the future of games","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe artist Mark Farid is preparing to become someone else for a month. In a fascinating experiment, currently seeking support\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca class=\u0022 u-underline\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1905266932\/seeing-i-28-days-living-only-through-virtual-reali\u0022 data-link-name=\u0022in body link\u0022 data-component=\u0022in-body-link\u0022\u003Eon the crowd-funding site Kickstarter\u003C\/a\u003E, he plans to take up residence in a London gallery, don a virtual reality headset and noise-cancelling earphones, and give over his senses to a single incoming feed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis feed will be provided by \u201cthe other\u201d, a volunteer who will wear a pair of spectacles equipped with cameras that record everything they do from the first-person perspective and send this live to Farid\u2019s headset. The artist will have no other contact with humans. He will live in the experience of this other person.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe point is discover how adaptable the brain is to another physical body \u2013 and whether our sense of self comes from inherent personality or cultural identity. It is, of course, a question philosophy has toyed with for hundreds of years: is the body a mere sensory vessel for the brain, or is identity inextricably linked to its physical manifestation?\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 17:02:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:52","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Christine Angelini","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/nov\/20\/virtual-reality-art-future-games","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}