The starting point of my dissertation is the question: What would be needed of a device to culturally reconfigure the way that we see? The question has been addressed through a theoretical examination of spatial theories in modern times and a creative exploration of new spatialities in new media technologies, both visual and aural. Central to my thesis are three claims: 1. the paradigmatic mathematical theory of single-point perspective is fundamental to the imagining and construction of space in modern times; 2. perspective is a seductive space because its virtualisations seem more authentic than phenomenological experience; 3. the structure of perspective space prefigures the computer screen, hence any attempt to reconfigure the spatial imaginary through the devices of new media technologies must first confront the historical ubiquity of perspective. The specific focus of my written research is a comparative study of Filippo Brunelleschi's perspective device and the virtual reality work of Char Davies. This comparative study focuses on the ingredients of both devices as well as the similarities between the environments in which they were demonstrated. Brunelleschi's Peephole device, according to his biographer Manetti, first demonstrated perspective theory in the early fifteenth century. Brunelleschi's device, with its three main components, the mirror, the burnished silver and the painted panel, are examined in regards to the environment it was demonstrated in. The dissertation explores these elements as the essential conceptual ingredients for the reconfiguration of space in modern times. Aspects of Brunelleschi's device are also examined creatively in my practical work. Today emergent technologies are being used to explore the potential of a new spatial world order. However, these new technologies are generally based on an Old World order perspective. Even the cubist reconfiguration of space did not change, in any fundamental way, the dominant perspectival model of perception because it did not have the same ideological and psychological power as perspective, which seduced the viewer into believing that the gap (or loss) between the technology and reality had been compensated. Arguably, the same claims can be made for virtual reality devices. Hence, important to the dissertation is a comparative study of Brunelleschi's perspective device and the virtual reality work of Char Davies. The creative work investigates the effects and work of perspectival spatiality by examining (through digital video, photographically and sonically) residual spaces in the environment. To me these residual spaces provide potential resistances to the perspectival space from which they evolved, and thus show new ways of exploring the virtual reality of cyberspace that, while acknowledging the pervasive presence of perspective systems, also deconstruct or even map new post-perspective spatialities.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Midori Hijioka Camelo.pdf: 3378645 bytes, checksum: d5a844d84ac1ae690e2ae66fd45c6c79 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-16 / This work tried to identify the contributions of Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti to the geometrical optics study. Tradicinally, seen by the history of arts and architecture study as inventors of the perspective, in this history of science study, the issue of genealogy was left behind, so they could find in the investigations about costruzione legittima , contributions for the geometrical optics. The period lived by Brunelleschi and Albert, the Renaissance one, shows many changing elements that made the transition from the Medieval and the Modern History. Specially about the perspective study, it s an incorporating moment, with a different meaning to the word. What used to be the synonym of optics throughout Middle Age, thanks largely to the investigations of architects and painters started then, has now the idea of the representation way , keeping it though the time, like we understand it today. Along with the complex movement of approaching of the heavenly thing to the ones here on Earth, witch in canvas mean the introduction of elements of the real world in representations, we can also see an approach of mathematics to the useful things of life, and geometry becomes equally important to the costruzione legittima of visual reality. In the arts and science knowledge and duties meetings, brought to you by the humanism, the spirit of modern science blends together, In the history of geometrical and experimental optics, the art of painting is show more present than it was traditionally thought to. At the time of seeing, the birth of modern science, the connections of Brunellesch and Alberti revealed how artificial the limit of art and science, the duties and the knowledge / Esta pesquisa buscou identificar as contribuições de Filippo Brunelleschi e Leon Battista Alberti para o estudo da óptica geométrica. Tradicionalmente, disputados pelos estudiosos da história da arte e arquitetura como inventores da perspectiva, neste estudo em história da ciência, deixaram-se de lado a questão de genealogia para encontrar, no interior das investigações para a costruzione legittima , contribuições para a óptica geométrica. O período vivido por Brunelleschi e Alberti, o Renascimento, apresenta muitos elementos de transformações que marcaram historicamente a transição entre o Medieval e o Moderno. Particularmente para o estudo da perspectiva, trata-se de um momento de formação de um novo significado para o termo. O que era sinônimo de óptica durante toda Idade Média, passa a incorporar, graças às investigações dos pintores e arquitetos iniciada ali, a idéia de modo de representação , ficando no decorrer do tempo somente com esta última, tal como entendemos hoje. Juntamente com o complexo movimento de aproximação de elementos do mundo real para a pintura, vemos ocorrer uma aproximação da geometria à forma de representação. No encontro de saberes e fazeres, de arte e ciência, plasma-se o espírito da ciência moderna. Na história da óptica geométrica e experimental, a arte da pintura mostra-se mais presente que tradicionalmente se pensa. Ao vislumbrar, no alvorecer da ciência moderna, as conexões entre Brunelleschi e Alberti revelou-se a artificialidade da fronteira entre a arte e a ciência, o fazer e o saber