If it can be implied in a picture, then it should be possible to
create that sense in a virtual world? If simply by the speed at
which images are created and destroyed, or things happening in the
viewers peripheral visions, or similar. Such would surely add to
a sense of urgency...
Maybe, maybe not. MTV makes use of a lot of crazy camera work, speed
images, and such. It doesn't necessarily induce urgency. In fact,
over time it produces laughability, because the funny camera work
comes to stand for the entire beauty-commercial-industrial complex
that MTV represents.
I'm just saying that a sense of urgency is heavily contextualized by
other factors. An image which moves very slowly might produce an
extreme sense of urgency in some circumstances, because the viewer
desperately wants something to happen to the image, for some event to
reach conclusion.
> Would you say that inhabiting the landscape of dreams while awake is
> surralism?
The dream is the surreal experience. The conscious retelling of it
is our futile attempt to recapture it.
I don't agree that conscious retellings preclude the capture of the
dreamlike state. It depends on the _way_ in which a dream is retold.
If it's retold in standard narrative fashion, i.e. "then, the chicken
jumps up and kicks the man in the pants..." then you will replace
dream quality with narrative quality. But there are other, more
experimental ways to verbally tell things. Input from a seasoned poet
would be appropriate in this regard - I must confess I am terrible
with verse. :-)
Cheers,
Brandon