Extended Context/Extended Media - Class 03 2015

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This document discusses the topics of mediated perception, the augmented body, and synesthesia. It provides an overview of the history of technologies that extend human senses like the telescope and microscope. It also examines how perception can be mediated through means like radiography, ultrasound, and neurologically inducing synesthesia. The document explores ideas of augmenting the human body through prosthetics or enhancements as seen in works of fiction. It analyzes artistic works that use the body as subject matter or sense how the body interacts with technology.

Education

VASE7200 Extended Context/Extended Media
Class 03
Mediated Perception & Body

Schedule
Mediated perception
Synaesthesia
Augmented body

Mental model
Mental model
Mind as information processing device
Thinking process as representation of the world

Synaethesia
Neuro-mixing of the senses
How we can purposely create it through chemical or digital
means?

Body as subject matter in art
Body in art

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