VR Adaptations: Faithfulness and Interactions—Interview with Mika Johnson
摘要
In the interview with Mika Johnson, the filmmaker discusses various VR adaptations, explained through his practice. Having a background in filmmaking, he uses his artistic research techniques to create VR scenarios. He details how one of his latest productions, VRwandlung, based on Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis, was adapted to the medium of virtual reality. He tackles the topic of how important faithfulness to the original artwork is and he also reflects on what kind of spatial thinking is required by the medium of VR, and how this requirement may interfere with the original world of the artwork.