Held online on the 7th May 2022, artist and educator Claire Hughes discussed the Vive VR headset and her work with the technology. As their complexity increases, the objects of technology that we use everyday become more and more mystifying to the average user. Most of us are able to competently operate our cellphones or […]
“It was not only the patient who was relieved from pain by anaesthesia. The effect was profound upon the surgeon.” [1] Susan Buck-Morss Anaesthesia is not only a medical tool. Long ago I read Susan Buck-Morss’s essay about anaesthetics, in which she characterised it as an aspect of aesthetics—an aspect, that is, of the sensory relations […]
Max Schleser Nature reclaiming architectural requiems The experimental Cinematic Virtual Reality experience is an exploration of a former German industrial coal and steel production site, which transformed into a public park in 1994. The last shift was worked on the 4 April 1985 and the former ‘Wirtschaftswunder’ turned into an industrial wasteland. The ironworks are […]