expanded cinema

an interesting topic i stumbled upon while reading this article was in the part in part one when youngblood discusses the subjective reality of viewing anything through video. The subject instantly becomes split into two realities without anyone stopping to analyze or question them. There is the film or video, the projected reality of the image. Then there is the simulation of the actual image, whether it be film or perhaps a broadway show. We receive and accept both in their perspective context, without questioning the form they have taken. An audience sits at a live show and watches a performance. I person sitting at home receives the exact same show via a different form, i.e the internet or tv. Although the exact experience is not completely duplicated it is accepted as the reality in that instant in time and becomes unquestioned.