PHENOMENOLOGYIN DIGITAL MEDIAPHILIP ANDREW MCCAUSLAND

BFA DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

HOW IS THE IDEA OF SUBJECTIVE PHENOMENA BEING AFFECTED BY TECHNOLOGY TODAY, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MERGING VIRTUAL AND REAL (WHAT IS REAL, WHAT IS TRUTH)?

screencap from a demo video for “Data Cloud”, by LUST

screencap from “Carbon”, by Tabor Robak

Datamatics, by Ryoji Ikeda

Liquid Sound Collision, by Eva Schindling

THIS IS A SPECULATIVE SCENARIO CONCERNING THOSE WHO FEEL THAT WE MAY BE MOVING INTO AN ERA WHERE TECHNOLOGY WILL HAVE US RE-ASSESS OUR NOTIONS OF ‘REALITY’ AND ‘TRUTH’..

http://dataform.tumblr.com/post/37707191545/prototype1

OBJECTIVES TO BE MET:

CREATE A 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

CREATE A SENSORY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENT AND A REAL SPACE

ENVIRONMENT WILL TAKE SHAPE BASED ON DATA GATHERED BY IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS

(AND MAYBE FROM A WEB/NETWORK-BASED SOURCE AS WELL?)

TOOLS TO BE LEARNED / USED:

UNITY3D

PHYSICAL COMPUTING

PROJECTION

EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE CONNECTION

FEEDBACK:

I received a lot of helpful feedback following my presen-tation. That which I found most useful:

I should think about this ‘transition’ from the physical to the virtual from a historical standpoint. I should look at past transitions/technological evolutions of this nature

and use that to make a more accurate scenario regarding the present and the future.

It was suggested that I look at the work of video artist Nam June Paik. His work seems very relevant for me

because of the way he creates installations with multi-media.

Something that occured to me after all of this feedback was that I should go back to thinking about surveying

people to validate that these feelings and ideas about the state of technology that I wish to explore aren’t entirely

subjective.