The spread of immersive digital environments might have made the virtual more “real,” but at the same time, increased surveillance and endless analytics have optimized our world as computation. The 2015 – 2016 Five College Digital Humanities Speaker Series features scholars and artists whose work investigates the constantly shifting boundaries between physical and virtual space, and how such shifts impact how we engage our social, political, and bodily networks: how our worlds are made, and how we can make them differently.

Referring to the hyper-speculation of images, information, and space, documentary filmmaker and author Harun Farocki once declared that “reality would have to begin,” A year after his death, we ask, “Has reality begun? Or has it become something else?”

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