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of surprise). It adds the literal third dimension of spatialization, with its increased ability to convey complex shapes and data. From a more sociological perspective (narrowed by presenting it predominantly at performance spaces in Manhattan and Brooklyn), it has had the marked effect element
dissipating social reservation (i.e. the level of posturing and pretense) in the crowd of art consumers. I've yet to investigate this by systematic questioning of individuals, but I plan to in the future. Is it a nostalgic regression to childhood? A license to engage an artwork non-intellectually? Mere novelty? Or, perhaps of
potentially damaging, is it merely that 3D glasses signify that you are about to experience entertainment instead of art? This audience effect thus can most
two ways simultaneously: it makes people more excited and receptive, but perhaps less open to artistic engagement. The recent explosion of 3D Hollywood has of course worsened this separation between 3D and art; an anti-3D screed in the current issue of the New Yorker, while noticeably biased work
overly focused on 3D kitsch at the expense of the artistic potential of 3D, nonetheless directly addresses the issue of illusion and interpretation from within our normal ‘artistic’ two dimensions: ‘Is that not, after all, how we have learned to read a painting since the time of Giotto? We know that perspective is a trick, and that a flat surface and
for a denser and more far-reaching world, but it is an illusion of which art—in drawing and painting, in still photography, and in two-dimensional films—has availed itself with unstinting intelligence, relying on our instinct to decipher the code. What 3-D movies say to us is: You have been fooled. You were duped, all this time, into thinking that a window was a world. Only now will you get the real thing.’ [9] stands
addition to the aesthetic concerns, there are other drawbacks: viewers, especially after watching commercial 3D films, have heightened
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