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to this unusual sensitive experience, associations with the technique of ChiGong,
the movement of matter by pure mental energy, are used as comparisons. (Monika
Fleischmann)
03.7 Immersion
The idea of immersion is described the best through such magic moments, when a viewer
in the cinema is totally absorbed by the aura of the canvas and when he accepts the
narrative world as his own. He dives into an artifical world. (archplus 175)
What if we cannot percept pictures any longer separately from our body, but instead
getting roped into the pictures? (...) What if these pictures bypass the representative
level and interact on the pre-linguistic body? (Marie-Louise Angerer)
Immersion means, you get involved to immerse (...) into artificial environments (...).
Through these techniques humans were finally taken serious as creatures, to whom div-
ing belongs - not only in the wet element, but in elements or environments absolutely.
The procedure is well known for a long time(...); but already the panoramas of the
19 th century anticipate the problem of hallucination management and the immersion
change. Immersion is a de-framing procedure for pictures and sights, which get rid of
the borders environment. (Peter Sloterdijk)
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(see below: 07.)- Ambient Conversion
So what we do, is Ambient
Conversion. We conver t
spatial environments and
augment them with the
help of advanded media
technologies. These Tools
are transforming whole
spaces into inter f aces,
which react to movement
and appearance of their
users.
- Augmented Architecture
At the media laboratory no_LAb^1 of the institute of architecture and media recently a
high end optical 3D motion tracking system has been installed.^2 Such systems are nor-
mally used in the film industry of Hollywood or in medical laboratories for motion analy-