Space and Spatial Authoredness in Mediated Reality
Ruly Darmawan

Design Science and Visual Culture Research Group
Faculty of Visual Art and Design - Bandung Institute of Technology
CADL bld., 3rd floor, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung

Abstract

This paper focuses on the spatial discourse in the mediated reality where most contemporary people are living in. Today^s mediated reality is the field where Alvin Toffler^s concept on prosumer works well. In this field, people are ^authors^, especially for some contents which related and/or contained with experiential dimension. On the other hand, the existence of mediated reality has become clearer when people conveniently take the virtual world as a kind of prosthetic to their real world. In fact, trends in virtual world might be the key of preference for the real world setting and vice versa. This reciprocal situation is also applied in spatially-related context. In this case, the quality of appearance of a spatial setting in real world should also be consumable virtually and, likewise, the published digital content is expected to become reference for the spatial representation in real life. This factual event depicts an issue on authoredness where everything seems potentially to be referential in mediated reality. A conceptual scheme will then be drawn up to make this issue becomes reasonable. This image-based research paper is expected to deliver a contribution for contemporary spatial discourse.

Keywords: Representation, Translation, Authoredness, Spatial Experience, Spatial Discourse.

Topic: Development Studies and Humanities