Archive for July, 2011
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SIZIGIA is :
- Astronomical, “the point at which a planet or moon is directly in line with the Earth and the Sun.” [wikipedia] ;
- Literary, Sizigias y otras cuadraturas lunares, an 18th century science fiction novel by the
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Mixed Reality
Mixed Reality is the creation of new spatial environments for human interaction with physical and digital information in a synthetic space, produced through the merging of physical and virtual environments. “While each reality is complete unto themselves, they are also …
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Artist-in-residence
Artist-in-residence programs allowing artists to reside and work in a specific social and cultural context, often different from their own. These programs offer conditions that are conductive to creativity and they provide for working facilities for artists. Historically, Artist-in-residence programs developed in …
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[Third_I]land
[Third_I]land is a limited series of five inworld builds (or atmospheres) for collectors of Mixed Reality works of art. Described as a “metaversal machine for the generation of real images from virtual worlds” (Kligerman & Mehdaoui, 2008), the five …
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[Third_A]vatar
[Third_A]vatar is your presence and your point-of-view on [Third_I]land. With your [Third_A]vatar you can explore the extents of [Third_I]land as an inworld, first-person experience. [Third_A]vatar is a camera for discovering the spatial scope and …
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[Third_E]ye
[Third_E]ye is your on-screen interface. It incorporates the software necessary to access your [Third_I]land and control the parameters of both [Third_A]vatar + [Third_S]pace. Based on the software used by the thriving virtual community of Second …
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[Third_S]pace
[Third_S]pace is the inworld, built infrastructure responsible for generating the spatial and graphical atmospheres of [Third_I]land. [Third_S]pace is a cube of inworld space, 75m x 75m x 75m, dedicated to and owned by a [Third_I]land collector, and …
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![[Third_D]evice is as a small cube placed in each [Third_I]land atmosphere; it is the seed that determines [Third_I]land‘s incipient qualities and dynamic evolution from a)one of five coherent, graphically rich spatial atmospheres; to b) a dense and intense media ecosystem; to c) a mutant territory of hybrid, immaterial sensation caused by unpremeditated dynamic transformation.](http://mysimulacrum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ThirdDeviceFeatured.jpg "[Third_D]evice")
[Third_D]evice
[Third_D]evice is as a small cube placed in each [Third_I]land atmosphere; it is the seed that determines [Third_I]land‘s incipient qualities and dynamic evolution from a)one of five coherent, graphically rich spatial atmospheres; to b) a dense and intense media ecosystem; to c) a mutant territory of hybrid, immaterial sensation caused by unpremeditated dynamic transformation.
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SIZIGIA [Intro]
The SIZIGIA project began with an open competition to develop a Mixed Reality public space for the contemporary art collective Laboratorio Curatorial 060: “transforming the conventionally passive role of the cultural apparatus from one that invents meaning, into an instrument …
