18th Oct2012

Week 8: Tierney, Rajchman, de Souza e Silva and Sutko

by jessicavooris

This week I should have started with the de Souza e Silva and Sutko reading, but instead read backwards, which is probably part of the reason that I found myself lost in the discussions of the virtual and the actual seemingly without anything concrete to ground me.  However, re-reading I think I have a better grasp on the concepts, though I am still struggling a bit to keep a hold on them.

1) In the “Theorizing Locative Media” article, de Souza e Silva and Stuko discuss the ways in which “information as space” and “space as information” are always in a process of becoming, through the process of actualization (37).  Thinking about space as information and vice-versus reminded me of the Manovich (?) article we read and the discussion of architecture as information and “augmented space.” de Souza e Silva and Stuko further the conversation around the link between technology interfaces and how we understand the world around us.  How is our concepts around space influenced by our ideas around knowledge/information? We are said to be living in an “information age” after all.

2) I am interested in the concepts of becoming and the potential and hope that comes up in discussion this evening.  “Thus actualization is not a making-real. The real already exists. Actualization is rather one instantiated, particular, immanent, and imminent configuration of the multiplicity of the potential.” (de Souza e Silva and Sutko, 35).  ”

3) Throughout class we have been talking about the relationship between space and time.  I was interested in Rajchman’s exploration of our concept of time, and our experience of it as a duration, ‘an endlessly flowing process” (138) and the connection between time, the virtual and memory.  Rajchman writes, “Henri Bergman proposed memory to be a virtual image that coexists with the perception of the object.” (35).  How can we extend the conversation around the virtual and memory to some of the other discussions we have had around space and bodies moving through space?

definitions–

space: “people do not simply operate in space; space also operates on people. The container/thing contained cannot be separated.” (de Souza e Silva and Sutko) There is a relation between actual and virtual space.

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