SpaceweaverFri, Jan 22, 2010 One of the most fascinating and effective ways we use for many ages to augment reality is by infusing deeper and richer meaning to names and words that represent aspects or items of common everyday reality. Rituals and myths are repositories of instruments and technologies made to accomplish exactly that. These are indeed the ancient methods of overlaying our narratives, dreams and artistic imagination on plain physicality. Alas, this kind of art is retreating into vagueness when names and words mostly represent 'function' (what is it anyway) or made to differentiate consumerist sentiments.
Having said this, there is an interesting future to AR that draws from the potential of merging our everyday audio/visual representations with active envisioning and artistic imagination. No longer will everyday reality be a default meeting place of our subjective existential planes. We will have to choose to participate in each other's Arealities (could be a good alternative name.. where the leading A stands for negation, augmentation and art ). A new meeting place - the dawn of an inter-subjective multiplicity.
One of the most fascinating and effective ways we use for many ages to augment reality is by infusing deeper and richer meaning to names and words that represent aspects or items of common everyday reality. Rituals and myths are repositories of instruments and technologies made to accomplish exactly that. These are indeed the ancient methods of overlaying our narratives, dreams and artistic imagination on plain physicality. Alas, this kind of art is retreating into vagueness when names and words mostly represent 'function' (what is it anyway) or made to differentiate consumerist sentiments.
Having said this, there is an interesting future to AR that draws from the potential of merging our everyday audio/visual representations with active envisioning and artistic imagination. No longer will everyday reality be a default meeting place of our subjective existential planes. We will have to choose to participate in each other's Arealities (could be a good alternative name.. where the leading A stands for negation, augmentation and art ). A new meeting place - the dawn of an inter-subjective multiplicity.