Fooling ourselves : topics and design strategies for media architecture, integrated media, and composite reality
Thesis: S.M. in Art, Culture, and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.
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| author | Howard, Joshuah (Joshuah Brindin) |
| author2 | Nida Sinnokrot. |
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| description | Thesis: S.M. in Art, Culture, and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1208942019-04-12T22:16:27Z Fooling ourselves : topics and design strategies for media architecture, integrated media, and composite reality Topics and design strategies for media architecture, integrated media, and composite reality Howard, Joshuah (Joshuah Brindin) Nida Sinnokrot. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture. Architecture. Thesis: S.M. in Art, Culture, and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-94). The rapid expansion of new media technologies is exacerbating inherent flaws embedded in the common multimedia display, or screen. As of 2015 the average American spends more time perceptually engaged with virtual content via screens than with the real world, with adverse effects. The current landscape of engagement with the virtual world, and virtual engagement with each other has lead to increased mediation, isolation, and dissociation that threatens how society functions. To counteract this trend, we should be making more of an effort to integrate the virtual into our natural, shared environment, and to create multimedia experiences that physically bring people together. Architecture is particularly well situated to tackle the integration of the virtual into the built environment. Such an endeavor constitutes a new subcategory of architecture: media architecture, which synthesizes physical design, content design, and communication theory. This subject matter is explored with the aid of various video based experimentations and artistic explorations. As a result of these experiments and explorations this thesis also proposes a number of design strategies for creating integrated media, including a materialist approach for creating virtual content that is more tethered to reality. Throughout, this thesis seeks to interrogate the eternal rift between the world in our heads, and the world in which we find ourselves, between imagination and reality. by Joshuah Howard. S.M. in Art, Culture, and Technology 2019-03-11T19:36:29Z 2019-03-11T19:36:29Z 2018 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120894 1088728333 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 95 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Architecture. Howard, Joshuah (Joshuah Brindin) Fooling ourselves : topics and design strategies for media architecture, integrated media, and composite reality |
| title | Fooling ourselves : topics and design strategies for media architecture, integrated media, and composite reality |
| title_full | Fooling ourselves : topics and design strategies for media architecture, integrated media, and composite reality |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Fooling ourselves : topics and design strategies for media architecture, integrated media, and composite reality |
| title_short | Fooling ourselves : topics and design strategies for media architecture, integrated media, and composite reality |
| title_sort | fooling ourselves topics and design strategies for media architecture integrated media and composite reality |
| topic | Architecture. |
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