Description
?... the balance between fiction and reality has significantly changed in the past decade. Increasingly their roles are reversed...?The fiction is already there. The writers task is to invent the reality.? (Crash, J.G.Ballard)
The seminar is an applied investigation of concepts of reality and virtuality and their possibilities of alignment and mis-alignments. The work conducted in the context of Eyerobot III, a seminar taught in Spring 2015, will serve launch pad for this seminar. Students will be re-framing the work under a new set of constraints. Rather then working trough the subject by making a series of images, videos and objects and linking the media trough an underlying digital material process, work in this seminar will link the mediums by rigging a digital live experience where the mediums are connected trough layering over time.
Apart from building the necessary assets the play with scale, time, duration and perception is at the heart of the work. A series of exercises and