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Chapter 17
Shifting Perceptions - Shifting Realities
Margaret Dolinsky
17.1
Introduction
As an artist working in a practice of portraying psychic dilemmas, I am interested
in perception, portraiture, how dilemmas express themselves and how the thoughts
and events fueling dilemmas reconstruct reality. Virtual objects offer a methodology
for shifting perception and evoking a sense of other-worldliness that allows us to
cognize our perceptions, their shifts and affectations.
The placement of 3D computer graphical imagery in virtuality and in space,
across time so that one can revisit it anew -is an act of situating consciousness.
Augmented reality incorporates the act of placing computer generated imagery
in locative space for visitors to discover. AR is an experiential phenomenon
that must be positioned and subsequently located or discovered. AR is fleeting
as it is oscillating between being invisible and being made visible by situating
the body and pointing a device into the atmosphere. The computing device, a
data processor, a thinking machine, recognizes an artificial entity and unveils its
presence. The physical movement of the body in synchronicity with the device
combines the corporeal and the machine to produce a virtual entity. A visitor
recognizes the AR entity in the viewing device and perceives it as an articulation
between self and world. One must suspend their disbelief in order to integrate the
virtual information within the real environment. In turn, the apperception of the AR
object causes one to reconstruct their understanding of the presence of objects within
that space. Moreover, direct confrontation and assimilation with the virtual causes
the repositioning of physicality and acclimatizes neuronal activity. As a result, the
real world transforms into an augmented reality.
