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• W739946 abstract "The experience of interacting with wild animals has, for most of us, been replaced by the experience of looking at images of wild animals. Even the experience of gazing at sorry captive zoo specimens is struggling to compete in a world of electronic gadgetry. Zoos, their construction, and the changing role they play in society, tell us much about the marginalisation of animals in the Western world and the redefinition of the relationships between them and humans. John Berger’s account of this changing relationship, “Why Look at Animals?”, [Berger 1980, pp1-26], which provided the impetus for the discussion here, is still pertinent but could not have foreseen the direction of the current re-assessment of the role of animals which modern photographic technology, digital image synthesis, computer simulation and behavioural modelling has triggered. This is not only true where existent wild animals are concerned, it effects our whole outlook on the natural world’s history and future. No longer are children required to exercise imagination to animate beasts of the past from artist’s watercolour impressions, from men dressed in latex and fur suits, or from assembled bones in the natural history museum. Convincingly rendered “extinct” creatures roam the cinema and television screen amongst city skyscrapers or New Zealand’s rainforests. They rend not only carefully (mis)placed consumer goods and actors, but the fabric of time which we had grown so accustomed to wearing. Previously our exposure to the early inhabitants of this planet has come through museum dioramas and book illustrations, or perhaps through documentary footage of the painstaking extraction of bone and hair fragments from a mountain of earth using only a toothbrush and pair of tweezers. Now we are shown “proof” that these creatures roam our planet still, crushing jeeps and battling giant robots. Proof perhaps as King Kong was proof of giant gorillas, but now in colour and with live action sound. This material is willingly consumed, even in an age so conscious of the manipulative image, and accepting of its seduction. Not only are we shown ancient creatures supposedly long extinct, we encounter organisms from other galaxies (who conveniently speak English). We witness menacing alien beasts in our own forests, and in our inter-stellar space-craft (which we are yet to build). There is more still, as we do not need to operate beyond the “real” world to witness insects going about their business in a field, filmed so as to make the tiniest dung beetle fill the largest" @default.
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• W739946 title "Virtual Animals In Virtual Environments" @default.
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