The work “Ambiance” explores how an interface and data presentation can impact our perception of space and location. The project looks into the relationship between spatial paradigms created by databases and their influence on culture and power using modern technologies. The project involves an installation-based interface and data engine that allows for real-time creation of…
Category: Spatial Projects
Ambiantspace
Ambiantspace is a video work exploring the effects of emergent media on the imagination through the translucent layering of imagery. The work presents spatial paradigms as examples of significant spaces. Just as perspective changed our perception last century so new technologies are now reshaping our presence in world. The work documents a variety…
i-500
i-500 project from Paul Thomas on Vimeo. i500presentation i-500 Presentation “When art is a form of behaviour, software predominates over hardware in the creative sphere. Process replaces product in importance, just as system supersedes structure.” (Roy Ascott, 1968) They argued that mathematical physics obliterated knowledge of nature’s heterogeneous richness as it ignored first-hand…
Residual Body
The residual body is part of my current research into a reconfiguration of space. This project explores unconscious spaces found between the garment and the skin. It’s purpose is to expose and develop meanings of how we percieve spaces which are left out of spatial understandings. The skin in this context works as a metaphorical…
Ambiant text
This is a transcript of the text used in the artworks Ambiance and Ambiantspace. I have elaborated and contextualized each sentence to reflect upon its meanings. The sentences are to provoke an ongoing discussion concerned with defining spatial understandings. My practice since arriving in Australia has used text to give a conceptual framework to inherent…
Spatial Emergence
The concept behind the project ‘Spatial Emergence’ 1998 us developed through the context of the transphysical city. This work explores the significant spatial intervals and boundaries between autonomous architectural structures. If one were to view the buildings with the city as words, then the street could be seen as a sentence. The spaces or pauses,…
Poetics of Thresholds
Sydney Perth Poetics of Thresholds Statement The Poetics of Thresholds investigates the relationship of the chair to the threshold space of the porch/verandah as a theoretical construct. The work explores the chair when placed on the porch/verandah as a social portrait, through its historical and social context. The chair’s context is developed through a series…