Abstract: The Redesigning Perception Project is an attempt to create non-invasive wearable technologies that expand aspects of our human perceptual systems. Our perceptual systems are the gateway to our understanding of the information of the universe, so by expanding our potential to absorb information from the world around us we in [...]

1. Circulation Study: P.O.V. Native/Inhabitant & Visitor/Viewer Just as with current cities, there are few explicit barriers such as walls preventing free movement across districts, city movement is only enforced through social expectations and norms. For instance if you are a short strand wandering around in long strand districts there will be whispering among the residents surprised [...]

Schedule: Oct 1 – Oct 8 -Finish Defining visual style. -Define the aesthetics of space design for an entity whose potentialities can be seen. —ie. Open spaces so you can see where your potentialities are travelling. —ie. Spaces for quiet resting where you can see yourself without your potentialities. -Produce initial concepts for building designs. -Finalize [...]

Data Aesthetics Each of the artists below analyze the structure of data in the creation of their artworks. This algorithmic approach to art may be used to analyze existing aesthetics, appreciate the aesthetics in pure data, or use a program to create art driven by an aesthetic defined in algorithm. Jason Salavon (” http://salavon.com/“) Jason Salavon’s artworks treat [...]

The relationship between media and content seems very similar to the relationship of form vs function. If the intent of a work is to best express it’s content/message (the artwork’s function) a media form that is synonomous with this message can only help, not hurt the expression of this message. The content of a piece [...]

Machine Performance Art These artists embrace the machine as artificial life in their artworks. These machines that mimic organic life are typically used as a means of commentary that questions the assumed division between the living organic creature and the built machine, and adresses the interactions between these living machines and organic life. Survival Research Labs (” http://www.srl.org/“) [...]

Player Experience Goals: My primary goal is to give the player a unique experience of what it is to know all of your possibilities for action before you act. It will be interesting to see if this results in a percieved loss of free will or agency. I would like to provoke players to respond to [...]

Cybernetic Art: These key artists have focused their works on the close interface between the organic and robotic, as a means for commenting on transhumanism, the relationship between man and machine in the current digital age, and philosophical questions of what differentiates the organic mind from the robotic. STELARC (” http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/arcx.html“) STELARC has done multiple performance art pieces [...]

Alright here goes the first of my week of postings for 511: With the discussions on immersion and what seemed to be a debate over “content” (the psychological discourse between the viewer and the work) vs “medium” (the technology), it seemed fitting to discuss this in the context of all new media, rather than just [...]

“Plurality” (See earlier post for high concept of this world.) Overview: There are two traits in people: 1) The ability to see the potentialities of things and other people. 2) The projection of their own potentialities for action into the future. Long Strands and Short Strands – If someone has a projection of their potential actions that stretches far [...]

“Plurality” 1) Name it: Plurality is a sci-fi game that embodies the multiple worlds theory. Plurality is a world in which the potentialities of everything causal that can occur is visible. The potential paths a person or object may take are present with that person/object in the real world in the form of transparent spacetime [...]

Media Rich and Socially Insulated Urban Landscape It seems the general theme of the items I carry with me indicate a society in which we immerse ourselves in technology to maintain our connection to the world, yet at the same time we isolate ourselves from the dense social setting we live in by staying disconnected [...]

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