abstract

Technological advancements have caused our evolution away from our primal senses, impairing our abilities to react immediately at a phenomenon.  This dormancy created our current human sensoria that are limited by the scalar scope of observations.  We became heavily reliant on systems, both physical forms and manifested jurisdictions.  However, instead of becoming one with these systems, we separate ourselves from them, as they are “unnatural.”  When these systems fail, we further distinguish their inability to perform like humans, as though we have senses that comprehend all complexities at an instant to mitigate a projective scenario.

Our current senses are limited within the range of the microscopic instant and the larger regional scale.  When we observe riverine transformations, for instance, the granular sedimentation is just as invisible to us as the indeterminate form it will become centuries from the very moment of observation.  Due to these limitations, we create tools that focus on such processes’ spatial and temporal scale in order to reveal manifestations that are invisible at the one-to-one.

These machines' senses differ in that of a human.  Its perception is modulated by the translation of such perceived phenomena happening in the realm of reality into the realm of the virtual through sensing and actuated response.  The infinitely iterative process is eventually re-applied back into the initial state of Reality to create a neo-incarnate.

Reality (Nature) -> [Virtual] -> Neo-Reality (Nature)  -> [Virtual] -> (Neo)Neo- Reality (Nature)...

These manifested forms not only become visible to humans, but also become enmeshed as a new form of ecology co-produced by the real and the virtual.

keywords

real, virtual, landscape, sensing technologies