Matrix Visual Analysis
How has the profusion of digital technology influenced culture as a hybridizing element?
Digital technology is applicable in the transformation of cultural aspects of the modern society. This is an indication that technology has a critical role to play in the development or creation of imaginary worlds and culture in the form of movies, music, and videos. The role of digital technology is evident in the creation of new images, videos, speeches, and music through manipulation and arrangement of the elements in unique forms to illustrate new culture. Digital technology facilitates the creation of new cultural artifacts through manipulation and rearrangement. This aspect of cultural transformation is evident in the music videos, funny clips, and movies such as the Matrix that clearly portrays different culture from the common aspect of values, beliefs, norms, and ideologies. The new culture results from the imagination aspect of human beings. Technology transforms the culture of the modern society from the Renaissance era in the 15th century. This is possible through extensive and effective integration of technology and scientific knowledge from unique fields to transform culture. Digital technology offers essential platform for the development of visual culture in the contemporary society. This is the essence of effective application of visual forms of media, information, and communication to make valuable meaning to the viewers. Digital technologies enable the transformation of culture as hybridizing element hence the development of events that relate to the mental aspect of the human world.
How are aspects of the digital conceptualized visually in the movie Matrix?
The matrix movie was an insight in how technology would influence how individuals live their lives in the modern world. The movie matrix applies the self-image aspect that offers the critical mental projection of the digital element of one’s self. This is an expression of how digital technology would enable human beings to exist through their mental experience. According to the movie, real have a different meaning to the normal illustration in the contemporary. Matrix movie indicates how electrical signals undergo effective interpretation in the brain to determine the real aspect of an object or event. The movie expresses on how human beings apply mental interpretation to determine if an object or an event is real or fake.
The movie applies neuro-interactive simulation known as a matrix to transform or provide different meaning to culture comparison to the renaissance period in the late 15th century. Matrix, according to the movie illustrates on the computer-generated dream world built to keep human beings under control by transforming them to electrical gargets such as dry cells. The movie illustrates on the artificial intelligence of human beings as the enslaving aspect of technology as the biological batteries. The movie demonstrates how technology plays a critical role in the lives of human beings hence the execution of roles and responsibilities in the computer program. The movie was capable of portraying virtual actors within the computer programs.
How does the scene selected perform aspects of texts we have read?
The scene selected transforms the culture of the modern world to something imaginary that only exists in the imagination of human beings. The scene offers critical definition to something that is real. According to the scene, transformation of the electrical signals by the brain would determine if an object is real or fake. This is an illustration of how technology enslaves human beings as portrayed in the selected scene of the Matrix 1999 movie. Digital technology ‘remixes’ culture by projecting a postmodern thus projection of unique culture. This is where science and technology would be vital to the survival of human beings in relation to execution of roles and responsibilities. In the selected scene, there is a close relation to the monster theory by Cohen. The computer program or digital technology represents the monster in the selected scene.
This is because the computer program inflicts fear, anxiety, fantasy, and desire in the main character after realizing the existence of culture remixes through his imagination. This is an indication of the elements of fear in any culture. The actors in the selected scene adopt different kinds of attire, hairstyle, and other relevant body features. Computer program (monster) possesses fear and threat elements in that the actors in the selected scenes find it hard to believe the experience. The fear of the computer program depends on the desire the actors to experience a new culture in relation to transformation of the aspects of life through digital technologies. The desire to accomplish what others have not tried in the past is an illustration of the fear. This is evident in the scene when Neo decides to request for numerous guns in an attempt to fight technology. The desire to accomplish this event illustrates the theory of monster by Cohen hence demonstrating on the threat that associates with technology. Technology becomes the controller of the events in the postmodern world. The monster (computer program) demands to know how society perceives the world. This is evident in the interpretation of the real objects as interpretation of mental electrical signals by the brain.
