Media Arts and Technology

"Immersive Sound and the Construction of Presence in Digital Media” - Gevher E. Karboga This presentation begins by explaining the concepts of spatial, emotional, and embodied presence, and explores how sound shapes presence and embodiment in immersive environments such as VR, AR, and interactive in...

I believe when it comes to AI and using AI in artworks, I belong in the more “spider brained” folk (for lack of a better word) as I still cannot bring myself to see the value in it as much as I see it in human-centred artworks. I don’t like how one-dimensional everything seems and how uniform the st...

I like it when artists play with perception in their works. Out of this week's works, two of them caught my attention in this regard: Masaki Fujihata's "Private Room" and Alan Rath's deconstructed body parts on screens. "Private Room" reminded me of the artist we looked at in the previous weeks that...

I have worked with therapeutic VR before, where we had guided meditation with music in various nature environments embedded in our cognitive behavioural therapy app. In terms of interactivity, it was mostly just your default VR headset/mobile view, where you could view the environment in 360. Howeve...

Nature is a common muse for humans both in art and science. In my opinion, the order, no matter how chaotic things sometimes seem, and the patterns found in nature – from plants to animals to matter – justify this fixation. Since we are surrounded by nature, sustainable ways to live and recordkeep s...

New information has been widely accessible with the internet. The data stream is continuous and regenerative too, as most of the processes are automated. We can see information about the weather, traffic, people, etc., and can use it in statistical analyses or artistic explorations if we choose to. ...

Pierre Lévy - A Tunisian-French philosopher and media theorist known for his optimistic view of technology’s impact on humanity. - Pioneered the concept of Collective Intelligence in 1994 → LINKS technology, culture, and collaboration and how they shape how humanity thinks and learns together. - In...

The concept of time and space in visual installations depend on how interesting or immersive one finds the artwork, in my opinion. If someone is only taking a glance while passing through, their presence will be limited to the here and now in the location. I remember seeing one of both Nam June Paik...

I’ve always had a particular prejudice towards simple shape based artworks. So, I wanted to get out of that headspace by choosing to read about Vera Molnar. The syllabus also directed me to her obituary https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vera-molnar-obituary-2406136. This article had multiple hyperli...