Fiona Yu Imaginary Synthetic Realms

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Credits
  • Tauira / Student
    Fiona Yu
  • Kaiako / Lecturer
    Tane Moleta
  • School
    Victoria University of Wellington, School of Architecture
Description:

A perspective taken from urban design and architecture studies, it begins with creativity capturing the city artistically, it eventually extended to online communities and how digital tools augmented the perception of the built environment. Connecting theorist principles maintained by urban world building traditional studies, the extended capabilities of understanding how to build or represent online agendas have become prominent amongst the current affairs of global commerce,trade, and life. From the vast interactions of navigation and pedestrian routes that reflect this. Resulting in media defining an online screen culture exposed in intersecting nodes of the city. From this, we build human connection and curiosity among our urban spaces.
Exploration of a hyperactive physical realm begins with the visual documentation of experimental mediums to capture the creative physical/digital realm intended to be extrapolated. Collection of paintings/illustrations defined the candid representation of visually compelling geometry. An amalgamation of mediums, the watercolour presents an exciting medium of communication. Acknowledging the overwhelming perspective, it is fluidity and ‘blurriness’, perhaps emulating the merging urban environment as a behavioural cohesion. Lack of accuracy and indefinite detail was subjective; therefore, to emulate the urban architecture aesthetic, a definite parameter was used to define these actions.
How humans perceive the urban environment and the digital overlay of consumer technology needs to be extrapolated and visually communicated with its inherited tools of technology. There are visible technologies (phones, computers, digital screens) and invisible technologies (cloud, wifi, Bluetooth) operating in the environment to connect all paths and details. It extends beyond a digital realm, and concerns the products of our digital environment, We must not neglect the emotional and cultural currents weaving through the city to determine the physical pathways. It ultimately curates a tapestry of digital lineage and engagement through familiar concepts such as vehicle traffic, flight patterns, and high-speed trains. As we continue to seek digital engagement as a tool, the visual experience curates the ultimate experience of creative desire.