Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 02: Seeing & Mediated Reality

Making Sense of Wearables

ITP, Spring 2015

Class 02

Seeing & Mediated Realities

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What do we see when we see?

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What don’t we see when we see?

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How do we communicate what we see?

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to ourselvesHow do we communicate what we see?

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to ourselves

to others

How do we communicate what we see?

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Mount Sainte-Victoire, 1904-1906 by Paul Cézanne

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"Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists."

Marcel Proust

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Rene Magritte, 1948 “Perception always intercedes between reality and ourselves”

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The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (1867), oil on canvas, 195.9 x 259.7 cm. Édouard Manet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Photograph of the execution of Maximilian (right in photograph) Miramón (center) and Mejía (left), 19 June 1867

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Boys playing Leapfrog (1883–86, printed 1887) Collotype Eadweard Muybridge

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“The Dialogue goggles restrict the visual field of the two participants to an eye-to-eye exchange, merging interactivity and dialogism, two of the central concerns in Clark's work.

As Myron Krueger has pointed out, "Many aspects of virtual reality including full-body participation, the idea of a shared telecommunication space, multi-sensory feedback, third-person participation, unencumbered approaches, and the data glove, all came from the arts, not from the technical community”.

from Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica: A Legacy of Interactivity and Participation for a Telematic Future, Leonardo

Lygia Clark, Dialogue, 1968. (Photo: Huber Josse) Lygia Clark, Oculus, 1968. (Photo: Eduardo Clark)

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from HASTAC Speculative Computing concepts in Art

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Is reality more or less mediated with technology?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRKMFFDcoUk

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Clouds Over Sidra screens at Davos. Photo: Socrates Kakoulides

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“After my son was born, I attempted to wear a Narrative camera most of the time. The Narrative is a diminutive, auto-shooting camera, the size of a small lapel pin, optimized to capture candid moments in your life. But family member after family member would spot it, ask what it was, and slowly tense in my presence, even when I’d promise these photos were private and wouldn’t be shared on Facebook. The next time they’d visit, their eyes would lower to my chest pockets again.”

from For Google Glass To Succeed, Tony Fadell Needs To Rip Out The Camera, Fast CoDesign

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“. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.”

"On Exactitude in Science”, Jorge Luis Borges,

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What else can we see?

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29 Eye-Tracking Heatmaps Reveal Where People Really Look, Business Insider

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the love jackets

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ode to a flower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZhgLKSBaY/watch?v=hIZhgLKSBaY

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Until the End of the World, Wim Wenders, 1991

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“Could it be that we are increasingly outsourcing our memory capacity to Google? Surely the firm itself should be devoting some of its staggering corporate wealth to medical research into Googleheimer’s and the general deleterious effect this highly accessible website is having on our brains. Soon the day will come when, as if in some sci-fi dystopia, we shall see the streets thronged with bewildered, dead-eyed people of all ages droning into their phones: “Google … where do I live? What’s my name?”

“We have outsourced our brains to Google”, from the Guardian

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do you see what I see? the promise of objectivity what is it like to be a bat data points - how many do we need? resolution

Us - Them what (how) we see - what (how) we communicate

[“know what it is like” generate empathy]

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“Humberto Maturana draws his view of how nervous systems, though organizationally closed, use language to loop-through the other”

from Paul Pangaro’s ThoughtShuffler