Recording or documenting an immaterial phenomena of light or sound seams like a simple task with straight forward criterion. The task at hand asks us to record a phenomenon of a building interface highlighting sound or light that has a level of interactivity and responsiveness with humans, deals with a threshold condition, contemplates materiality as a means of transmittance and delivers a poly-rhythmic/poly-temporal and poly-scalar series of events. A task that is much more difficult.
What is an immaterial phenomenon?
Immaterial -- not consisting of matter.
Phenomenon -- any event, circumstance, or experience that is apparent to the senses and that can be scientifically described or appraised. Merriam- Webster Online Dictionary
Together, these words suggest that the event, circumstance, or experience that is apparent to the senses can actually NOT be measured objectively in a scientific manner.
Subjectively discovering how to materialize this phenomenon will allow a rigorous exploration to develop into an understanding of the implications that could evolve.
Choosing a phenomenon that that follows all of the criteria poses a difficult decision. What is more important, the medium or the message, or can we say that "the medium is the message?"
Is it more important to choose a content that has depth and is vague enough for original and insightful explorations?
Or, is the content irrelevant (as long as the criteria is followed) if the medium has enough originality and possibility to explore the content in a fresh way?
Some of the preliminary research that I have done has sparked ideas:
- How can we record how our eye physically receives different levels of light and contrarily,
how can we record the light that our eye recieves?
- How does sound travel through water?
5x as fast in sea water than in air
20x-30x as fast in distilled water than in sea water
what is the affect of "shadow zones" in water where sound waves do not travel.
- How does natural light affect our perception of traffic (pedestrian, car, other) durring different times of day?
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