I guess the term "hybrid city" could better read "hybrid spatial experience"
(a more generalized context) that could be the result of acting and
perceiving within a city, within a landscape or within an environment of any
scale. This is more what we had in mind when proposing the term. The urban
context of course involves more of the social spatial experience too in the
process and therefore touches upon the socio-political implications of using
these systems. One of the key subjects of research in the area of pervasive
and locative media is this spatial/environmental experience. One of the main
research questions that have driven some of our experiments with such
systems is: whether one experiences being "present" concurrently at the
physical and the virtual space of the representation or one alternates
between the two states of "presence". And the field of environmental
cognition helps as a starting point here.
I very much agree that our proprioceptive sensation is augmented to include
not only our local but also a more global view of our environment and in the
case of "invisible dynamics" a series of non-perceptible to the human senses
phenomena. But when we experience these systems through mobile devices
(which do not fully immerse us into a virtual context but allow for a
continuous non-mediated perceptual input from the physical environment too),
our physical environmental experience is unavoidably mixed with the mediated
augmented view of the world, and this becomes a somehow "hybrid spatial
experience". It may be that these two views are mixed in the case of
augmented reality (like when using Layar) or that we somehow have to
relate/map two quite distinct frames of reference (like in the case of using
a GPS while walking in the physical environment, mentally relating a plan
view of the world with a perspective one). And I suspect that the strong
sense of connection between the mobile device and our body may somehow help
us in the process of relating these two frames of reference.
When discussing the possibility of an augmented landscape, a very
interesting and enjoyable exhibition I saw a few years ago in the context of
the Sonar festival 2005 in Barcelona on the theme of "Augmented Landscape"
comes to mind. This was curated by Oscar Abril Ascaso.
Best
Dimitris
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Dr. Dimitrios Charitos
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies
National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens
e-mail: vedesign at otenet dot gr
URL: www.media.uoa.gr/~charitos
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[mailto:yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr] On Behalf Of roger
malina
Sent: Τρίτη, 20 Ιουλίου 2010 12:16 πμ
To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS
Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] the hybrid city as interface
Dear Salvatore, dear Martin, dear Daphne and all
I have very much enjoyed looking at the various
cartography web sites that you have referred us to
martin= as an astronomer I enjoyed Starshed ! but wish
you had invented new constellations by joining the dots
in new ways !!!
After re reading the various posts I wonder if the term
"hybrid city" is the right one, because the ideas really
dont have anything to do with urbanisation as such, but
really about how one integrates mediated senses into
ones perception
derrick de kerckhove has been talking about replacing
a sense of view (or of perspective) with a " sense of being"
he gave a talk at sonic acts for instance
http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/keynote-derrick-de-kerckhove/
where he states
"In the global environmental perception that is developing,
the point of being, that is a proprioceptive sensation of the world,
may be doubling if not replacing the point of view as the principal
referent of my position in space."
I think this is one answer to martin's question on how
map making translates to art making- the "sense of being"
is defined by the the data that one chooses to connect into
ones worldview at a given location ( and this connects nicely
with the previous example i gave of the "invisible dynamics"
concept- and surely this selection of the world is one thing
that artists do
roger
ps= in reading up on derrick's idea on sense of being i came
across this statistic that derrick states : 80% of cell phone
owners under the age of 18 sleep with their cell phone under
their pillow or by their ear...
Derrick: care to respond ?
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