Forms of Spatiality in the Digital Age

Student: Miniazeva Kristina

Supervisor: Ilya Inishev

Educational Programme: Visual Culture (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2019

Our hypothesis is that digital matter is not amorphous or ephemeral, on the contrary, it is increasingly generates new forms of hybrid reality, which determines the specifics of perception of real spaces and the dynamics of the functioning of the urban spaces through the process of collision of man, nature and algoritmic machines. But what is the specificity of the digital space experience in the perceptual environments of the modern city? We have to consider the nature of the relationship between physical and digital matters, to reveal the specific configuration of digital space through the analysis of digital artifact, to analyze the daily digital practices in terms of the transformation of the functioning of the urban environment and of individual's everyday experience.

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