DocumentaX--blast-home

Attila Sohar (supnurse@hotmail.com)
Sun, 13 Jul 1997 08:14:29 PDT

Hello blasters!
I have been reading the material on this forum just a little while ago
so do excuse me if any redundancy occurs.My name is Attila Sohar,from
Budapest.
I will jump in by reacting to a couple of subjects/quotes from Jordan
and Bracha.
"The position of sitting at the monitor is charged with expectations and
demands..."
"One wonders what these non users were thinking,and to what extent they
were aware of the charged space between their body and the inter-
-face."
My field of study being architecture,I couldn't help putting this
quote in an architectural perspective,and say:

"The position of sitting in front of a building is charged with
expectations...One wonders what these nonusers(passerbies) were
thinking,and to what extent are we aware of the charged space between
the inhabitants body and the borderlines defined by the structure?"

I am most interested in the conversation of inside and outside space,
and the phenomenology of the body as it interracts and does its routine
within a space.That energy which emanates from our metabolism
but that could not be transfigured as yet into a visual language
allowing the built environment to perspire a new aesthetic.

"Cyberscreengaze is that of domination,making us feel the machine is
ours."

It would be delightful if we could allow an architectonic gaze to
emerge us from a social torpeur,that would have no claim of universality
and rigid rationality.Mostly to allow for more intuitive and flexible
explorations of contradictory conditions and moods by stimulating all of
the senses and prompting a new awareness as well.
A facade that engages the mind into new speculations,appealing to
human emotions and desires,and which can be explicitely sensual.
Thus the machine becomes part of us,and sharing it with others.

I am currently trying to set up a Forum/Conference about Cyberspace for
Architecture here in Budapest,that would allow people pioneering in
interactive cybertechnologies...to apply their findings to the built
environment and where topics like this could actually bring a tangible
methodology.I am just in the phase of trying to find the venu
through which such a forum can become a reality.If anyone has
suggestions,they are welcome.

Attila.

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