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The Archives
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02.08.08Mixed Realities Event in Second Life/EmersonAn event with a more philosophical bent will take place this Friday, February 8 at Emerson College in Boston. The panel discussion titled “Immersion, Presence, and Place” will be hosted by Eric Gordon and feature artists who are working with Second Life as a medium. John Craig Freeman, Usman Haque, and Pierre Proske, among others, will join in the discussion either at the college, online, or through Second Life. A major theme of the panel will be the “limits of reality,” according to Gordon. “Where does the physical end?” he asks in the announcement. “Where does the human end? And, where does the ...
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01.29.08Real World as Virtual – Scientific ViewA scientist answers questions about the maximum speed of light and God's existence by claiming that the real world is actually virtual. ComputerWorld magazine recently profiled Brian Whitworth, an information scientist out of New Zealand who recently published a paper entitled “The Physical World as a Virtual Reality” that has generated tremendous attention and discussion on blogs. The article discusses responses from bloggers at the New Scientist blog and allows Whitworth to respond to some of New Scientist challenges. Whitworth’s article argues that the universe is a ‘virtual reality created by information processing,’ and is a system that requires booting up. Whitworth ...
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10.31.07Reflexive Architecture: Virtual Worlds Redefine our Relationship to ObjectsI'm increasingly fascinated by the work that architects are doing in virtual worlds, Second Life in particular. Documented and discussed at The Arch I can only offer a naive outsider's view. I'm clueless as to how reflexive architecture, for example, helps to explore concepts of architecture as a discipline. However, my fascination with reflexive architecture connects to deepening (and confused) thoughts about objects, interaction, and "physical presence" in virtual worlds. As an extension of this fascination, our group has begun to explore concepts of landscape architecture and in particular metaphors of public gardens and their transportability into virtual worlds. Reflexive architecture ...
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