Emotional space
Sensation, emotions and feelings are crucial indicators for well-being and survival. When touching a hot stove, the sensation of heat will trigger retreat. Emotions of fear will trigger escape. Also more complex feelings like love, compassion, hate or alienation, inspire human behaviour. Sensations, emotions and feelings deeply influence the sense of place. When being in conflict even a large palace can be experienced as suffocating. When in love, a small bed can be paradise. Phsyical sensations inform about the nature and construction of environments. Emotions and feelings reflect the atmoshere that happen in an environment, touching the heart of human beings involved. As result a sense of place is constructed.
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To be raised by a computer
The last story I want to share in this section poses the question of whether there is a distinction…
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Love on the Internet
A second story I want to share is about two people communicating with each other via Internet.
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AIBO, the robotdog
The first story is about a robot dog that was made In Sony's Research Lab in Paris in 2001. Because…
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Real versus unreal
In 1935 Walter Benjamin wrote the first draft of his essay on 'Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner…
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Blurring between real and unreal
For survival, the blurring between real and unreal situations is problematic at first sight. When…
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Being alive
People who have died can have all sorts of presences in the variety of cultures that the human race…
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European Research: to measure being there
In science as in the arts a lot of research has been carried out that can be understood as presence…
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Art as research: to sense the here and there
In annual international art events like Ars Electronica note 44 , DEAF note 45 , ISEA note 46…
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Aura's in the digital age
A variety of sciences and practices can be understood from a presence perspective, as has been…
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Patterns between presence and absence
In the patterns of presence and absence in the variety of mediated and unmediated forms, people…
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Techno-biography
In Science and Technology Studies (STS) actors are taken extremely seriously and are often the…
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Parresia
In 1983 Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at the University of Berkeley in which he…
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Fundamental research in the performing arts
The staging of 'networked' performances was especially useful because fundamental issues could be…
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Shared understanding and hard facts
In 1999 I started working for the University of Professional Education in Amsterdam and through…
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Unity of Time, Place and Action
In the performing arts the "Unity of Time, Place and Action", which is attributed to Aristotle even…
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Demo or die
While I was associated and involved with Internet design over the last 15 years I observed hype…