My Journey Into the Sensations of Sight

Electronic media technology provides artists with tools for exploring interactivity. New immersive media sensations can result from the interactions between viewers and electronic artwork. This thesis is a record of my personal creative journey, including the ideas and the resulting interactive artworks that have unfolded on a voyage towards expressing sensations of sight. There are two interactive and immersive new media artworks that were developed as a part of this creative exploration. “Zeugen” uses thirty-two human-cast robotic faces and a face tracking system to track the movements of viewers in a gallery space. “Mind Mirror” is an electronic artwork that uses stereoscopic and stroboscopic audiovisual phenomenon (intermittent photic-stimulation) to cause the viewer's mind to create involuntarily visual hallucinations. The result is an experiential event propelling the viewer into a state of visual euphoria. My creative process (methodology) is presented in the form of a personal narrative outlining the practical motivations that have guided my work and I situate the work within a historical and theoretical discourse.