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description, methodology, collective history
In the media labs of large technological corporations around the world, and especially and foremost in the USA, the mediation of ...
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Wijnand IJsselsteijn, researcher at TU Eindhoven, has been involved with the European Presence programme and has been responsible for ...
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In 2004 an amazing article was written, 'The Layers of Presence: A Bio-cultural Approach to Understanding Presence in Natural and ...
description, argument, parresia
For survival, the blurring between real and unreal situations is problematic at first sight. When one needs to act for survival one has ...
The first story is about a robot dog that was made In Sony's Research Lab in Paris in 2001. Because the robot dog does not mediate the ...
concept, argument, theory
The concept of media schemata is crucial for research into the domain of designing presence in environments where technology plays a ...
I had a special folder in which I gathered possible programmes that did or didn’t take place. It was called “klinkende ...
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In annual international art events like Ars Electronica note 44 , DEAF note 45 , ISEA note 46 , artists present their latest work in ...
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IJsselsteijn also makes the following observation about the future: "With more advanced media, it will become increasingly hard to ...
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Riva, Waterworth and Waterworth were inspired by Damasio in their proposal for a deeper understanding of Presence. After having studied ...
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Another element in thinking about natural presence in modern life is elaborated upon by Donna Haraway. She argues that technologies have ...
A second story I want to share is about two people communicating with each other via Internet. Where feedback is almost immediate, ...
concept, argument, theory
In Science and Technology Studies the complexity of such arrangements in which nature, culture and technology are deeply interwoven, is ...
description, methodology, collective history
Military research into presence has to be mentioned here first, even though I do not intend to elaborate upon it. That would require ...
description, methodology, collective history
In science as in the arts a lot of research has been carried out that can be understood as presence research even though it has not been ...
When I am confronted by a stranger on my path, I have to know whether he is really there and whether he will attack me or not. I have to ...
concept, argument, general history, theory
Haraway's insights imply consequences for the sense of presence on an even deeper level. In the work of Haraway, and others like Judith ...
The last story I want to share in this section poses the question of whether there is a distinction to be made between mediated presence ...
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Among the crowds that characterize the many urban environments we distinguish 'the mass' and 'people we know'. We perceive the presence ...