November 2, 2008
Roses are red, poets are blue, this space is augmented, and so are you.
Please hold, operators are standing by.
Joe Baldwin
I think it is a better question to ask what is our experience of dynamic and rich multimedia information when it is covering spatial forms. To say this content fills the spatial forms is to suggest [...]
October 30, 2008
Life Casting
thepoeticsofaugmentedspace PDF
Adam Trowbridge, Benjamin Thorp, Reading 4: Manovich - 0 Comments
October 29, 2008
As Manovich states, the layering of information on top of architectural features is not new, as we can see, for instance, in any medieval cathedral, were biblical narrations were overlaid to the facades. Nevertheless, “The Phenomenon of the dynamic multimedia information in these environments is new”. Anyway, I would say that the speed of this [...]
The idea of architects creating their buildings around the currently available high resolution data and image space technology is very exciting. There are several novel ways I can think of where very common construction of houses can incorporate such technology and art at the same time. I feel such displays should not be restricted just [...]
Reading Lev Manovich’s text I keep thinking about the monumental scales of most of the spaces that the text talks about. It seems that the augmented space is in a lot of the examples a monumental space.
Vectorial Elevation the Raffael Lozano-Hemmer installation had always appear to me as a sad example of how a person [...]
October 28, 2008
And if the old guard still offend
They got nothing left on which you depend
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood
And off with their heads
-The Shins, “Sleeping Lessons”
In The Poetics of Augmented Space Lev Manovich offers some key insights and addresses some important themes in helping us understand information space historically and in the present, [...]
