Filters for Seeing

David Sequeira, a Canberra artist, gave an interesting talk at the University of Canberra. David was discussing his work in the context of colour and space. I found it intriguing that he was talking about his installations being visual forms of space and how that relates to the “Spaces between people and objects” This idea of the “space between” things and people echo’s Scott McCloud’s point of the space between comic panels being where the audience engage with the story, occupy a conceptual space and connect the narrative elements together without being told what is actually happening.

I think Augmented Reality is really a dialogue that occurs in the spaces between the real and the virtual. This stood out in David’s other points regarding Indian windows.

Indian Windows are a celebration of exquisite pattern created in stone work. Their intention is to facilitate a “augmented” view of the outside. To let you see something different. They create a layer between what is and what you see. In effect they become a filter for seeing. In many ways this is analogous with Augmented Reality (AR). AR is a filter for seeing that can enhance and change our view causing us to reflect on what we think.

-matt