Imaging technological structures for organisation of biological consciousness and aesthetic experience

Margaret Dolinsky

pp. 86-89

in: Roy Ascott, Gerald Bast, Wolfgang Fiel, Margarete Jahrmann, Ruth Schnell (eds), New realities, Berlin, Springer, 2009

Abstract

Art situates consciousness. More importantly virtual art actively situates human consciousness while simultaneously illustrating the self as agent provocateur of consciousness. The syncretism between biological self and technological world is deeply rooted in the consciousness of arts as they provide the dynamic for wetware upgrades supplied in the form of digital projections, virtual environments and high-end virtual reality display systems. Virtual art extends the private research laboratory of social awareness and intimate interaction by resituating the personal in experiential time-based modes of aesthetic experience. This paper examines a phenomenon whereby the actions in virtual systems that are driven by both sequential image construction and human-computer intervention simultaneously activates the organisation of the stream of consciousness experience.