#mediated reality

[musingpixels]

Thee Capsule Landed; alien came to visit (childhood's impression)

Thee Capsule Landed; alien came to visit (childhood’s impression)

Watered Down water mark of a passage of reflection

Listening to “Kinka” by Carter Tutti, live at LEM festival. This is the perfect picture of where I want to take sound. The use of rhythm to enrapture and then sound to displace is so tenderly applied.

Tonight [… and recorded earlier today…] straight from the…

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[ournewmedia-blog]

human experience has become a highly engineered and therefore manipulable thing

Crawford, Matthew (2016) The World Beyond Your Head: How To Flourish In An Age of Distraction. London:  Penguin.

[imclab]

Meta's Augmented Reality Glasses 2.0 | Demo

[chloelwhittaker]

Taking stills from the 'rose tinted dating' video allows me to create another layer of deceptive reality whilst still revealing the layers of construction. 

[realreymac]

Night Stroll

[jaycanthandletechnology]

Insert Coin: Meta 1 marries 3D glasses and motion sensor for gesture-controlled AR

Today, developer sales opened for Meta 1, start-up company Meta's augmented reality / mediated realty HMD that allows users to interact with virtual objects in physical space.

Meta has a kickstarter to get this thing funded and targeted for mass consumption. it only takes a $550 pledge to get a developer kit -- someone talk me out of it...

[wildcat2030]

Mediated Reality & Wearable Computers

Professor Steve Mann of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering is recognized as the "Father of Wearable Computing." Using eye glasses that project computer generated content, Professor Mann is able to mediate his reality.

(by U of T Engineering)

[thisisdigitalartandculture]

Framing the world by the media

As we have been discussing in the past classes of Digital art and culture, one of the aims of the modern and contemporary social sciences is to define reality.

It could be said that there is not a universal reality but a subjective one. Reality depends on everyone’s point of view. As individuals, we have our own cultural and historic background that influence the way we frame it.

Throughout the centuries, the vehicle to represent reality has been Art, as a broader term it covers almost every kind of artistic expression:  visual, literary or performing arts.

As an example of these earlier forms to reproduce reality, we find landscape paintings like maps or everyday-life pictures describing the world not as it was but as it was seen at a certain period of time.

As centuries have passed by, we have discovered new devices to represent reality. In our days, maybe the most important one is the media technology. In the media field, that is known as mediated reality. That term was coined by Steve Mann and describes the connection between the virtual information and the real information that we perceive from the world. Or in other words, we create an image of the reality based on our own empirical experience as a way to gain and spread knowledge about the world we live in.

But although the media is a valid tool to simulate reality, it could be a double-edged sword. We can’t always find reliable information but manipulated one, whether intentional or not.

This conflict could be related, approaching to the Media theories, to the social theory developed by George Gerbner known as “Cultivation theory”. Gerbner claimed that the long-term exposure to the media could make the viewers or users to be likely influenced by the ways the reality is framed in, changing their perception of the real world into a symbolic social reality.

This alteration implies that certain people can’t distinguish anymore what is real from what is not. In that way, individuals become easily manipulated and media carry out its function in propagating the values and stereotypes of this virtual world instead of allowing them to get closed to the real one.

Claudia