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Authors: |
Speed, Chris. | |
Title: |
Dismantling the Articulation of Space and Time as Processional Dimensions. | |
Keywords: |
Linear, Dimensions, Procession, Space, Time | |
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Abstract: |
The articulation of space and time
as processional dimensions 1D, 2D, 3D to 4D is under massive stress from the application
of new technologies that are dissolving the linear expressions of how we see the world.
Since the oratorial nature of communication that defined the destination of language and
text, humans have sought to express much of what they see and conceive of in a linear
manner. Space and time became the casualties of a Cartesian panacea that dealt with
temporality as if it were a body to be divided up and analysed separately. The trajectory
of many Western teleology's seduces us in to projecting our aspirations into the form of a
future, and demands us to conceive of time as a highway, with capitalism constantly
promising us that with the 'appliance of science' we will get there. However, our total
integration in to networks has provided us with a consciousness of simultaneity and
complexity, that delivers us back to the present and demands us to question our ways of
seeing and the way that we describe where we are, what we are and when we are. This papers explores the definition of alternative states of dimension and questions the classical hierarchical means of expression that underpins the modern way of seeing the world. The paper explores the contexts that developed the processional expressions from single point, to time within space, and highlights the consequences of these qualitative definitions on the fields of virtual reality, architecture and computer sciences. Through the identification of alternative articulations of space and time found in the synthesis of art, science and technology, the author promotes the development of a contemporary grammar that will support a non-Cartesian way of seeing space and time that will ultimately embrace the quantum. |
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| Speed, Chris. chriss@soc.plym.ac.uk
School of Computing, University of Plymouth http://caiia-star.newport.plymouth.ac.uk Chris
Speed is currently Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Interactive Media at the University
of Plymouth. Following a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Brighton University, where he exploited
multimedia and telecommunications technology to develop interactive installations, he
moved between the roles of Telematic artist and multimedia freelance designer. He joined
the Research group in September 1996 after working in the New Media Department of Marshall
Cavendish in the capacity as Art Editor, and was involved in the direction and production
of multimedia titles such as Images of War, Science Lab and Murder in Mind. In a research
capacity that stretches between London and Plymouth, Chris Speed is active in the
production of practical and written work, he is a member of the CAiiA-STAR Research Group
headed by Roy Ascott, and he is also presently studying MA Design Futures at Goldsmiths
College in London. Preoccupied with how we identify and make sense of space and time. His
research concentrates upon the manipulation of the frameworks that enable us to orientate,
and navigate ourselves through the world. Adopting many forms of new media technology, the
work aims to reconstruct and present information through events and experiences, to
explore alternative ways of reading geography and time, and in turn question our
relationship with the global village. Recent work includes a temporal navigation system
for a Business Centre in Edinburgh and the presentation of a paper at the Mind III
conference on Spatial Cognition at the Dublin City University, Ireland. |
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