modalities of space

The work Modalities of Space is a diagramming machine.  It exists as an ongoing investigation into the phenomenon of light as a volumetric experience, and its potential as a form of phenomenological diagramming.  The perceptual experience of the materiality of light filter and resist the projection of the diagram into a volume.  Complex detail collapses into a flat haze.  Quick movements defy our evolved proprioceptive conditioning and capacity to inhabit a space.  Elementary forms adapted to their projective sweep acquire structural qualities. 

Modalities of Space implicates an understanding of such phenomena in an act of diagramming that is derived from the projective nature of light back through a sequence of geometric mappings to an input data stream.  Each step in the sequence further elaborates an extension into space, moving from a dimensionless stream of numbers through a parametric encoding of the phenomenal diagram.  The act of experience and its elaboration through geometric form and algorithm is a continual source of insight into the dialogue of information and space.


Wesley Smith (USA)

웨슬리 스미스는 인터렉티브 멀티미디어 아트 작품 제작과, 퍼포먼스, 미디어 소프트웨어 디자인의 창의적 적용과 컴퓨테이셔널 작곡을 연구주제로 하고 있으며 컴퓨터 공학, 철학, 수학, 작곡의 학문 융합적 연구를 하고 있다. 현재 MAX/MSP의 회사인 Cycling 74의 개발자, 컨설턴트로도 일하고 있으며, 스위스 쥐리히의 디지털 아트 위크, ICMC 등지에서 퍼포먼스와 논문발표 등 미국과 유럽에서 활발히 작품 발표와 연구 활동을 하고 있다. 그래험 웨이크필드와 함께 인터렉티브 멀티미디어 제작 오픈 소프트웨어 LuaAV의 공동 저자이기도 하다

Wesley Smith is an artist and developer of software for audiovisual composition and performance living in Santa Barbara, California.  His work examines the interstices of informatics and spatiality with a focus on the nature of knowledge and meaning as they acquire spatial extension within a computational context.  His current research seeks to develop algebraic systems of spatial composition as a means of generating dynamic spatial networks of information flows.

Wesley is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara's Media Arts and Technology Program where he received a masters degree in 2008.  He is also a developer of Max/MSP/Jitter at Cycling '74 in San Francisco, California.

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Limia Shunia (USA)

Limia Shunia is a designer and Co-Founder of the experimental classroom, XC —a materials and application studio with a partial emphasis on how surfaces, skins, light sources can uniquely combine to result in new systems.

Limia has a Professional Degree in Architecture, and has taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design founded by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Currently, in her post graduate studies at SCI-Arc she is focusing on design research in media. Her work attempts to exploit relationship channels between body and space.