DESIGNING CYBERSPACE

A presentation of Peter Anders' text, "Bridging Spaces - Transcending Disciplines," from his book, Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3D Electronic Spaces.

the idea that aspects of every art form can be incorporated in the creation of cyberspaces - a discipline that is assumed to surpass the normal

Cyberspace - the transcending discipline...

John Cage - creation by means of chance

Marcos Novak - Anders calls Novak, "a perfect example of how the distinctions between artistic disciplines blur and disappear in the face of digital technologies"

Art+Com - experience by a pre-determined chance

"Using Algorithms in the Creation Process"

in the instance of algorithmic art, shared authorship must be acknowledged - the artist, the computer and the audience contribute to the final composition

Sol LeWitt - minimalist artist

Karl Sims - algorithmically designed forms evolving; creatures

"Embodiment in Electronic Media"

the dematerialization of the body leads to involving, and even intimate experiences

Thecla Schiphorst - creative body movement through computer science

Monika Fleischmann - Intimate interfaces

Char Davies - changing space in immersion

"World Views"

God-like capabilities in virtual reality - be everywhere, anywhere, anytime, all the time...

"Vision is power"

Knowbotic Research - remote sensing --> contained space

Asymptote - the virtual NYSE

"Two Models of Surveillance"

1. Mann's - subjective surveillance with wearable computers

2. Gelernter's - objective surveillance with 'big brother' watching

both focus on a decentralization of the technology

the subjective is created by the perspective that the user takes

the objective is merely a theory that the collective of information gethered from the technology a simply a monitoring system

Steve Mann - wearable computers

"Augmenting Reality"

physical world + cyberspace = a synthesized or augmented reality

"cybernetic cycle"

After the technology is used to dematerialize our bodies, our reality is augmented with chance-driven processes that create naturally developing worlds - cyberspaces

presented 05.08.01 for MAT: Art and Technology