Virtual Presence: Occupying New Realities Symposium
Envisioning environments enhanced by and built with media, the “Virtual Presence” symposium, hosted by Guvenc Ozel and the IDEAS Technology Studio, aims to investigate scenarios where occupants of such architectures travel seamlessly between the digital and physical worlds. As our current pandemic lifestyle cemented the role of the contemporary home as an ecology of media distractions, loose social engagements and a coarse platform for professional development, how can we reimagine the home as a spatial interface that accommodates enhanced modes of human interaction and engagement? The goal of the symposium is to explore the notion of being present in virtual frameworks, one that re-imagines a cybernetic form of space that is fluidly responsive to crises – one that interprets architecture as transient media rather than a vessel that negotiates between the violence of an anthropogenically transformed nature and the body.
This event is presented by the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
Event Date: Saturday, Feb. 20, 5 p.m.
Platform: Zoom
Price: Free
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