VR Storytelling: Potentials and Limitations of Virtual Reality Narratives

Authors

• Simone Arcagni University of Palermo

  Simone Arcagni is an Associate professor at the University of Palermo, Italy. He is a scholar, consultant, curator and disseminator of new media and new technologies. He collaborates with «Nòva-Il Sole24Ore», «FilmTV», «Segnocinema», «Che Fare», «Impactscool Magazine» and other magazines and newspapers. He founded and directs the scientific magazine EmergentSeries Journal and curates “VR Stories”, an international virtual reality festival and market. Recently, as curator, he signed the exhibition “Futuri passati” (Biennale Democrazia / Polo del ‘900) and “#FacceEmozioni” (with Donata Pesenti Campagnoni for the Museo Nazionale del Cinema). Among his publications, Visioni digitali. Video, web e nuove tecnologie (Einaudi, 2016), L’occhio della macchina (Einaudi, 2018), Immersi nel futuro. La Realtà Virtuale, nuova frontiera del cinema e della TV (Palermo University Press, 2020), and Cinema Futuro (Nero, 2021).

• Adriano D'Aloia

  Adriano D’Aloia, Phd, is an Associate professor of Visual culture at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He the author of Neurofilmology of the Moving Image. Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Film Experience (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and the editor of the Italian edition of DN Rodowick’s The Virtual Life of Film (Il cinema nell’era del virtuale, Olivares 2008). He is the co-curator, with Ruggero Eugeni, of a reader of contemporary film theories (Teorie del cinema. Il dibattito contemporaneo, Cortina, 2017) and of Cinéma&Cie special issues Neurofilmology. Audiovisual Studies and the Challenge of Neuroscience (2014). His essays on the aesthetics of film and media experience has been published in Sense of Cinema, Necsus, Screening the Past, Bianco e Nero and other international academic journals.