Materializing Virtual Sites

Matthews, LM; Perin, GJ

Materializing Virtual Sites

Matthews, LM

Perin, GJ

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Publisher:: Artech-International (The International Association for Digital and Interactive Arts)
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Digital Arts, ARTECH 2010: Envisoning Digital Spaces, 2010, pp. 39 - 44
Issue Date:: 2010-01

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dc.contributor.author	Matthews, LM https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2804-940X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Perin, GJ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2943-4094	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Valbom, L	en_US
dc.date	2010-04-22	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Digital Arts, ARTECH 2010: Envisoning Digital Spaces, 2010, pp. 39 - 44	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-989-96163-1-8	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16582
dc.description.abstract	The increasingly common deployment of webcam systems for the imagistic promotion of iconic city form not only presents new material to mediate people's engagement with this space, but also offers new ways to materialise its actual three-dimensional form. The interactive capacity of webcam content, both as a voyeuristic space and through its digital manipulation, paradoxically subverts the representative role expected of these systems to one that is qualitative and experiential. In doing so, it questions the making of civics space as a signifier or locus of idealized form and replaces any symbolic role for urban form with the affect of form. The paper, drawing on recently completed design-oriented research conducted at the University of Technology, Sydney, will discuss how an array of open-source digital softwares have been strategically recruited to process raw virtual qualitative data from webcam images to generate a formal response to civic space. This 'designerly' intervention back into three-dimensional space, through specific operational and technical properties associated with the digital manipulation of the two-dimensional webcam view, asks the designer to relinquish the images traditionally used to substantiate urban form. This unprecedented technique can be seen to offer a new paradigm for material intervention within both 'virtual' and urban space.	en_US
dc.publisher	Artech-International (The International Association for Digital and Interactive Arts)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Digital Arts, ARTECH 2010: Envisoning Digital Spaces	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	ARTECH 2010: Envisioning Digital Spaces	en_US
dc.title	Materializing Virtual Sites	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location	GuimarÃ£es, Portugal	en_US
utslib.location.activity	GuimarÃ£es, Portugal	en_US
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dc.location.activity	Guimar?#es, Portugal	en_US
dc.location.activity	GuimarÃ£es, Portugal
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
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Abstract:

The increasingly common deployment of webcam systems for the imagistic promotion of iconic city form not only presents new material to mediate people's engagement with this space, but also offers new ways to materialise its actual three-dimensional form. The interactive capacity of webcam content, both as a voyeuristic space and through its digital manipulation, paradoxically subverts the representative role expected of these systems to one that is qualitative and experiential. In doing so, it questions the making of civics space as a signifier or locus of idealized form and replaces any symbolic role for urban form with the affect of form. The paper, drawing on recently completed design-oriented research conducted at the University of Technology, Sydney, will discuss how an array of open-source digital softwares have been strategically recruited to process raw virtual qualitative data from webcam images to generate a formal response to civic space. This 'designerly' intervention back into three-dimensional space, through specific operational and technical properties associated with the digital manipulation of the two-dimensional webcam view, asks the designer to relinquish the images traditionally used to substantiate urban form. This unprecedented technique can be seen to offer a new paradigm for material intervention within both 'virtual' and urban space.

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