The Mythical Place: A short history of 'other places'.

Continuing from discussions and presentations this session focuses on the fluid spaces and liquid architectures that form part of our archi-typal- memory and provide a strong historical context for many contemporary digital virtual and invisible architectures. We will start by following up on the mythical spaces mentioned in the focus session, and end with an exploration of the VRML places located in the Panopticon structure.

This session looks at the cyclic / recursive relationship between traditional metaphysical spaces, their representation, the manifestation of invisible architectures within tangible architectures and the virtual architectures of the Panopticon.

 

This relationship is mapped out along the trajectory of the annunciatig beam of light from heaven to earth depicted in the Crivelli painting:

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