THE UNIMODAL AND MULTIMODAL WORLD: A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF MIXED REALITY?
THE UNIMODAL AND MULTIMODAL WORLD: A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF MIXED REALITY?

Summary/Abstract: This article offers an epistemological and performative reflection on mixed reality (MR) as an emergent language uniting art, technology, and cognition. Expanding on David Nelson’s notion of MR as a site of shared agency and ethical co-presence, it contrasts “unimodal” and “transmodal” universes through examples from cinema, immersive theatre, and human-computer interaction. Drawing on research from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, the study situates MR as a dramaturgic environment enabling empathic adaptation. Ultimately, it proposes MR as a new expressive grammar–an evolving “language-system” redefining narrative, perception, and presence at the intersection of aesthetics and ethics in the digital age.

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