Poetics of Immersion

2009-06-23T05:16:00.000-07:00

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light as you are

2009-06-23T03:05:00.000-07:00

What are the necessary light conditions / stimuli to create an immersive experience?
What's the role of video as a source of light and movement?
What happens if, for instance the screens become part of the environment and we can not only interact with them but also walk through them? (fog-screen above)

By means of human performance it's possible as well to solidify light into space
long exposure shots in real time transform the ephemeral nature of light into a remanent of an action, into a memory of a body in time.

LAPP / light art performance photography

light also can use the space, triggered by other human's movement creating a Matrix as in the work of Edwin Redl, flirting with VR.

to Illuminate the space, as sound does in Aural Architecture

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what is not immersive (site & time-specific)

2009-06-19T07:38:00.000-07:00

In the context of this investigation it's not immersive:

home theaters
360 panoramas
smart houses
Virtual Reality
Gaming

Instead we (I) understand immersive as in >
real and physical, quotidian and performatic experience of altered mind states, depending on the environment and the levels of interaction that the people is able to establish, bridge, expand, dialogue.

Instead of envisioning within the Machine like in Minority Report,

I prefer to think about Brazil, maybe
Blade Runner, certainly
Where People still sweat:

A more extreme 80's version would be something like
Running Man

tobecontinued...

genetics, sound & the senses

2009-06-19T04:41:00.000-07:00

how does a _sound web_ trigger physical reactions
the body is being performed by sound itself, as an environment.
physical organic space inside the human, in this case another human and so on.
if this supposed to happen to the 'audience'
what happens within the performer?

http://www.fubiz.net/2009/06/16/zurich-orchestra-campaign/

"the music of elementary particles "
at
http://users.belgacom.net/gc681999/Onderwerpen/Info/Ecosonic.htm

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2009-06-18T11:28:00.000-07:00

homyness

2009-06-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

There are immersive environments that invite us to lay down, relax by providing pleasant and comfortable devices as carpets or beds, something that makes us feel at home, somehow in an intimate environment, or at least a very personal reference to our daily life. While we lay down, alone or with more people, we have for a second the feeling of comfort, refugee, placenta, the gezelligheid from the Dutch, the coziness of the English.

Such as >

Telematic Dream by Paul Sermon (90's)

'Video organism' as in Pipilotti Rist Elixir

Sonic Bed was made by Music for Bodies
Pure Immersion / Feeling at Home?

It makes me think of
Wearable / Sensors
Responsive
Tripping
Deaf
Sound as Movement
Vibrations

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It moves as it feels, and it feels itself moving

2009-06-18T09:36:00.000-07:00

Pure sound and nothing but sound, coming from over xx speakers. In the Murder of Crows a dream-like narrative guided by a woman's voice. The speakers are on the chairs.
What's the treshold between the environment and the people's body?
Reminds me of Groupe de Recherches Musicales ad their Acusmonium (Paradiso / Sonic Acts XII)

> we see with your eyes closed,

as in:

BodyLounge, performance in which the audience is blind-folded and individualized and you're taken into an intense journey of inner visions and the memory of the senses.

connection with:

Teatro de los Sentidos

focused more upon the relationship with everything else, The Environment,
the Context if you want, a point is space and time, ephemeral, that involves and envelopes the physical, mental & emotional.

' When I think of my body, and ask what it does to earn that name, two things stand out. It
moves. It feels. In fact, it does both at the same time. It moves as it feels, and it feels itself
moving. Can we think a body without this: an intrinsic connection between movement and
sensation, whereby each immediately summons the other?
If you start from an intrinsic connection between movement and sensation the slightest,
most literal displacement convokes a qualitative difference, because as directly as it conducts
itself it beckons a feeling, and feelings have a way of folding into each other, resonating
together, interfering with each other, mutually intensifying, all in unquantifiable ways apt to
unfold again in action, often unpredictably. Qualitative difference: the issue, immediately, is
change. Felt and unforeseen. '

Brian Massumi

synchro-facing

2009-06-18T06:58:00.000-07:00

This is a way of synchronizing human movements to electronic beats. Embodiment of sounds.
Experience music from within. Still, missing the wireless independence...

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being in a constant conversation with every aspect of my environment

2009-06-18T06:46:00.001-07:00

By coincidence, I dropped by a beautiful video. At first glance looks like a documentary about an autistic person, till you finally realize that the depicted character is in fact the director herself. Through a digital camera, a keyboard and a language impaired software she is able to tell her side of the story, communicating the way she communicates with the external world, while the external world insists on qualifying her as an outsider. Thanks to Amanda.
http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/

Hentschlager / Sonic Acts / Poetics of Space

2009-06-18T06:10:00.000-07:00

Zee is an immersive environment that operates based on fog, stroboscopic lights and electronic music. While in it, you are not able to see anything but white smoke around you, and after a few minutes, sort of psychedelic visions come out from your brain till the moment you are able to see both with your eyes open and closed.
http://www.hentschlager.info/index.html

I got to know the work of Hentschlager when I was in Sonic Acts Festival XII (2008), edition focused on flickering lights and the cinematic experience. Interesting enough, this year the topic will be Poetics of Space -http://www.sonicacts.com/-, the title of the book I just purchased from Gaston Bachelard, launched in french in 1958.

immersion: videogames & porn / robbie cooper

2009-06-18T05:12:00.001-07:00

Robbie Cooper continues his visual investigation on daily life immersion and screens, through video portraits in which people get absorbed and deeply engaged with whats going on within the frame. First it was about kids and video games, and in his latest release the world of porn aficionados and the onanistic way of immersion.

videos are to be found in:
http://www.wallpaper.com/video/art/immersion-porn-by-robbie-cooper/26157926001
&
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/21/magazine/1194833565213/immersion.html

Robbie's blog on immersion
http://blog.robbiecooper.org/
and website
http://www.robbiecooper.org/small.html

immersion porn reminds me :
beautiful agony
http://beautifulagony.com/public/main.php