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fabrication - fiberglass b.m.
Installation for ARCH 461 @ Cal Poly w/ Grant Cogan, Kegan Flanderka and Cam Northrop
fiberglass molds:
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aug.vision - vision perspectives
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aug.vision - helmet
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The Indo-Pak Border
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on devices
The technology at that point actually has more direction than the [users] themselves […] I kind of like the idea here that the—I think we could’ve pulled it off more—but you do get a little bit of a sense of it, that the exo-suit—like right here—is playing back the sound that’s occurring on the battlefield. The exo-suit thinks that it may be necessary for the occupant to hear this—whatever info is being gathered around them […] But I just like that it’s sourcing information constantly and kind of replaying it. You know, it’s this three-dimensional sound and visual environment that it can be updating and giving the user whatever info the suit thinks they need.
District 9, Neil Blomkamp
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vellum show
A viewing device for your own self, you should prepare to invent a new way of perceiving and participating.
time to sleep again
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vellum - the last week and a half
to vellum we go
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vellum - some assembly required
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from this morning:
Well, the wall isn’t the reason behind the conflict, it’s just a manifestation of the conflict between two groups. But the wall becomes a symbol, psychologically it’s way more powerful than its actual, physical self. It performs a role of increasingly contrasting the identity and fear issues that propagate the conflict. It’s a device with a purpose, but it’s not the reason.
So, the idea is to create an opposing device that converses with these.. issues. I have this fascination with how people cognitively perceive things, and I think societal change, for the better, happens on an individual level. There’s this term, phenomenology, that gets constrained to being a sensory term.. the tactile nature of materials, emotions of light and sound and so on.. But I’m interested in how people perceive themselves and how they perceive others, that end of phenomenology. As we grow up we fashion a cognitive perception, or the ways we understand the world, for ourselves. People fall into identities, buildings into types, conventions are created and so on.
So, what if you created a device which upset those conventions? When you get on the internet, suddenly the distances and time between places collapses and you can talk to someone in Rome or wherever instantly. My generation grew up with it, more or less, but for others it was this incredible thing that defied what their thoughts on communication and distances could be. The vellum project I’m doing.. it’s sort of a dumbed down version of my thesis project. If you can create a place that performs in a way that completely alienates your typical conventions, you have to adapt. You have to create a new cognitive perception. If you bring two groups of conflicted people together, on a one-to-one level, maybe you can make them realize their conventions need to be reevaluated..
