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Keiichi Matsuda - The Bartlett, UCL
Keiichi Matsuda Nominated by Nic Clear
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"The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect consume and organise. Kei Matsuda’s work clearly articulates the architectonic possibilities of the ‘augmented’ realities of this information space and how an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us." Nic Clear Augmented (Hyper)reality Augmented Reality is an emerging technology defined by its ability to overlay physical space with information. It is part of a paradigm shift that succeeds Virtual Reality; instead of disembodied occupation of virtual worlds, the physical and virtual are seen together as a contiguous, layered and dynamic whole. It may lead to a world where media is indistinguishable from reality, Baudrillard’s simulacra made tangible. The spatial organisation of data has important implications for architecture, as we re-evaluate the city as a human-computer interface........ To read more download the text document below.
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