초혼(招魂)의 테크놀로지: <감성과학 프로젝트: 환생>과 <VR휴먼 다큐멘터리: 너를 만났다>를 중심으로

Abstract

In recent years, attempts to revive the appearance and voice of deceased singers and celebrities have been actively made in the media. It usually utilizes technologies such as artificial intelligence voice synthesis and computer graphics, especially 3D modeling and motion capture, deepfake, AR/VR, and holograms. And it presents the latest technological method of honoring the dead. The technology of invoke spirits gives us the possibility to meet the deceased again at any time in our lifetime. It is certain that this will lead to a historical change in the way life and death are perceived as an irreparable gap, as well as social attitudes and cultural practices about death. However, it is not limited to the technical dimension of digital technology that makes simulated artificial reality. The spectacle of rebirth embodied through the technology of invoke spirits is basically nothing more than a digital object returned to 0 and 1. It is not a technical means that can transcend the irreparable gap between life and death. Rather, we are providing a new opportunity to mean death in various historical, social and cultural contexts. Through ‘unheimlich’, the predetermined facts about absence and loss are unconsciously repeatedly recalled. In addition, a decision by the bereaved family is an important opportunity to intervene. This process provides an unprecedented way of mourning that gives meaning to digital objects.