{"id":213357,"date":"2025-05-06T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/teleabsence-poetic-encounters-with-the-past"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:07:36","slug":"teleabsence-poetic-encounters-with-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/teleabsence-poetic-encounters-with-the-past","title":{"rendered":"TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teleabsence-poetic-encounters-with-the-past2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the dim light of the lab, friends, family, and strangers watched the image of a pianist playing for them, the pianist\u2019s fingers projected onto the moving keys of a real grand piano that filled the space with music.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the ghostly musicians, faces and bodies blurred at their edges, several listeners shared one strong but strange conviction: \u201cfeeling someone\u2019s presence\u201d while \u201calso knowing that I am the only one in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough to explain,\u201d another listener said. \u201cIt felt like they were in the room with me, but at the same time, not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the dim light of the lab, friends, family, and strangers watched the image of a pianist playing for them, the pianist\u2019s fingers projected onto the moving keys of a real grand piano that filled the space with music. Watching the ghostly musicians, faces and bodies blurred at their edges, several listeners shared one strong [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}