At the “Tumo” Center for Creative Technologies, today, the guest of the British Film Festival, Simon Wilkinson, met with journalist and gave a media conversation about the virtual reality. Simon Wilkinson’s work includes audiovisual techniques, installation, virtual reality, and electronic music. He told that he often combines these techniques, “I started a music. When you write a music for people, you cannot use their other senses but the audio. Then I moved into a film, realizing that therewith you may “hug” the audience and take him with you. Subsequently, you can talk with the audience, if possible, meet the person separately and talk” said the artist in an interview with Aravot.am.
In his words, earlier, people used to bow before the artists like before the church, “And now it is an outdated perception, now art means a talk. In today’s world, people are using the media for communication, the artists should do that way too.” We inquired what he already managed to know about Armenia. Our interlocutor said that he had read a lot about our country, the Armenian Genocide and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, “I saw the photos of the Armenian Genocide … In some countries, including mine (the UK) for whatever reasons have not yet recognized the Armenian Genocide. I think it is us to recognize it. Incidentally, what I saw here was unexpected. There are incredible opportunities for the young people. I saddened a moment that it is not so in my country.”
In the end of the meeting, the journalists asked whether it is possible for Wilkinson to shoot a film about the Armenian Genocide. “I can never predict what I will shoot,” he said. The guest of the festival also told the attendees about his “The Cube” film-performance, which is about the mysterious disappearance of a group of teenagers in the US in 1959. In these days, Wilkinson will deliver lectures at the “Tumo” center.
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