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Virtual Presence: Occupying New Realities Symposium

Envisioning environments enhanced by and built with media, the “Virtual Presence” symposium presented by the IDEAS Technology Studio with Guvenc Ozel and Benjamin Ennemoser aims to investigate scenarios where occupants of such architectures travel seamlessly between the digital and physical worlds. As our current pandemic lifestyle cemented the role of the contemporary home as an ecology of media distractions, loose social engagements and a coarse platform for professional development, how can we reimagine the home as a spatial interface that accommodates enhanced modes of human interaction and engagement? The goal of the symposium is to explore the notion of being present in virtual frameworks, one that re-imagines a cybernetic form of space that is fluidly responsive to crises – one that interprets architecture as transient media rather than a vessel that negotiates between the violence of an anthropogenically transformed nature and the body.

Feb 20, 2021 05:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)