> Part of my interest in **emerAgency** is to use the technology as a
>prosthesis for noticing these large-scale events.
We might use technology to "un-see" what we have grown accustomed to. This
seems to be one of the goals of immersive VR. But, then again, I think
that's what the frame of mind we call art should do anyway. Not a
revelation of truth so much as an opening-up or unblocking to the facts
we've learned to ignore.
When Robert Irwin came out of six hours in an anechoic sense deprevation
chamber he noticed a new awareness to energy in his environment. He goes
on:
"I think what happens is that in our ordinary lives we move through the
world with a strong expectation-fit ratio which we use as much to block out
information as to gather it in -- and for good reason, most of the time, we
block out information which is not critical to our activity. But after a
while, you know, you do that repeatedly, day after day after day, and the
world begins to take on a fairly uniform look. So that what the anechoic
chamber was helping us to see was the extreme complexity and richness of
our sense mechanisms and how little of it we use most of the time. We edit
from it severely, in time to see only what we expect to see."
--Lawrence Weschler, "Seeing is Forgetting The Name of the Thing One Sees,"
p. 129
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