The fluid experience of space : physical body in virtual spaces over an analysis of Osmose
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Advisor
Groch, John RobertDate
2003Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
By the naissance of virtual reality, the body is repressed and transformed into
representation in technological virtuality, and the cyberspace has defined as the
space experienced by the mind that is separated from the body. By this
transformation to ‘simulacra’, this dystopian world of Neuromancer has become
the model for future works. Whereas by the help of Char Davies’ Osmose using
Virtual Reality technology, the boundaries of technological virtuality is
expanded in such a way to include the de-technologized virtuality: the virtuality
of nature. By the use of virtual reality technology, Davies’s interpretation to
cyberspace is transgressive in terms of body and space notion. Starting from the
definition virtuality of nature, my aim is to analyze the virtuality of water, that
will help the thesis to criticize the technology per se and proposes ‘other’ space
and body relation in this newly created environment: water space. By the direct
‘contact’ of the body, water space become united with the element, dissolving
the boundaries of object/subject, inside/outside splits. Drawing parallel lines
between water and imagination, virtuality and freedom, this thesis proposes a
look at the cyberspace notion through water.