Week 3 - Artist

The digital mediums which will comprise my body of work and the cohesive theme of integrity, regarding online Vs offline identity and the projection of self, grounds my artistic concepts in the realm of post-modernism. An artist who is similarly influenced by the implications of the virtual world and it's integration into reality,is Diane Gromala. Her work 'Living Book of the Senses' deals similarly with digital art, focusing specifically on how artistic configurations of technologies can provoke new a new awareness and understanding of our senses.

The exert from Media Art Net's website describes well, the digital interactive nature of Gromala's work (http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/living-book-of-the-senses/) 'Users wear a headset/head-tracker/color camera system that enables them to see physical reality enhanced with a virtual reality overlay. Users can fly into the immersive world and see each other represented as avatars in the same virtual scene. As the users simultaneously interact with the book in the physical and virtual realms, the book responds to individual and multiple physical states (via biofeedback) to express resulting changes in narrative. The narrative is a cultural history of the senses.'

The image below is a product of user interaction with the 'Living Book of the Senses', an image that provides significant aesthetic inspiration for the next digital collage task: