Scopic regimes of postmodernity: space in/within the embodying surface(s) of stereoscopy
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2011
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Brisbin, C.
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Ultima Thule: Journal of Architectural Imagination, 2011; 1(1):1-14
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This paper explores the impacts of recent technological innovations in the conception of image–saturated architectural surfaces and form. In particular, it instrumentally explores the potential of 'perceptual embodiment' promoted by nineteenth-century image-artefacts such as the stereoscope. It is an unapologetic attempt to promote the kinaesthetic subject as the inheritor of a post-ocularcentric world. In order to achieve this end, this paper focuses on Jonathan Crary's historical analysis of the nineteenth century in Techniques of the Observer (1993). Crary's analysis is further tested through the author's own constructions of a series of explorations into stereographic image-artefacts and surface compositors. Through the use of contemporary computer technologies, these image-artefacts provide a means through which to speculate on an emerging schism in the reigning scopic regime of ocularcentricism and pictorialized surface effects in architecture today.
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Copyright 2011 Chris Brisbin. Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)