Abstract
Through the HOME residency at Digital Artist Studios, Belfast, Dave has critically investigated the everyday domestic practices for the imagination and consumption of spatiality underpinned by contemporary image-based digital platforms. This practice-based research is contextualised by how platform economies (Airbnb, Uber, Deliveroo, Etzy, etc.) are reconfiguring and distributing domesticity to construct new imaginaries of the home. Using the Youtube video sharing platform as a focus, the research explored a range of screen-mediated spatial experiences, from semi-amateur urban exploration (UrbEx) of abandoned architectural sites to professionalised residential real estate sales and competitions, to explore and speculate how digital ‘content’ manifests new spatialities and interiorities. Reappropriating photogrammetry and Guassian splatting, extractive technologies of machine vision, the research has produced a counter-cartography of the platformed home hosted via a Virtual Reality interface. The experience simulates a digital ‘anarchitecture’, and an inhabitation of the (partially) visual encounter and auditory expression of the postdigital spatial condition(ing).
| Original language | English |
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| Media of output | Multimedia |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Sept 2024 |