Guest: Matthew McGinity
Date: 2014-06-21 14:00 ~ 2014-06-21 16:00
Address: BLDG.18, Moganshan RD. Shanghai
Language: English (with Chinese translation)
About Lecture:
Robert Barker`s painted panorama of 1787 and the remarkable experiments in panoramic cinema at the dawn of the 20th century to today’s virtual reality theatres, the panoramic form has been repeatedly invoked in the pursuit of “presence” - the sense of “being there” in a mediated or virtual environment. But what exactly is the relationship between presence and the panorama? And what precisely is this “presence?” In this talk, Matthew McGinity will explore the phenomena of presence and immersion through two bodies of work: the construction of a modern-day panoramic virtual reality theatre (the AVIE) and the creation of La Dispersion du Fils, an artwork created specifically for display within the AVIE. The talk will touch on a wide variety of perceptual phenomena, such as light-fields and the 10 degrees-of-freedom of vision, J. J. Gibson’s ecological optics, stereoscopy, ego-motion, vection and perceptual rest-frames, multi-sensory binding and transfer, and interactivity and the perception of causality. Matthew McGinity will discuss the surprisingly destructive effect that the image has on presence and how interactivity may both enhance or destroy presence. To help explain these concepts I will draw examples from the art world where many of these concepts can be found elegantly, if tacitly, demonstrated. Finally, Matthew McGinity will discuss how La Dispersion du Fils exploits these various perceptual phenomena to create a never ending immersive journey.
About Artist:
Matthew McGinity is a computer scientist specialising in immersive and interactive real-time systems. His work includes the iCinema projects T_Visionarium and La Dispersion du Fils and the AVIE360° panoramic virtual reality theatre. He is currently based in Berlin.
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