This latest mixed reality portrait depicts Doreen Garrigus and her owner. "The avatar shot was taken on my building platform at 2001 meters," she tells me. "The human shot is a candid taken by my sweetie when I was lolling on my bed in the sunshine, on a lazy Sunday afternoon. It may be the happiest picture ever taken of me." She calls this image "Recursion", and explains why eloquently:
"I really like the image of the human and avatar selves making appearances in each other's space, with the recursion as an acknowledgement that we are never truly separate beings. The virtual encroaches on the atomic which encroaches on the virtual which encroaches on the atomic and so on it goes, forever and ever. Even for the most immersive of us, there is no point at which we can say we are only influenced by the events in one reality or the other. Our human and avatar selves, however different they appear to be objectively, share a subjective consciousness in which shared ideas and impressions form. Influence is inescapable."
See the whole Mixed Reality Portrait series here. Want to send me your own Mixed Reality Portrait? Here's guidelines and suggestions on doing just that.
Excellent
nuff said
Posted by: archie lukas | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 at 08:33 AM