SAC Journal 6: Breaking Glass

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Within a relatively short time, Augmented and Virtual Reality have emerged centre stage in architecture and the arts. While promising to upend the way image-based experiences are mediated and consumed, the technological media also teases the disciplines with novel creative opportunities for creating critical and meaningful experiences. Yet, the rise of these media in various industries, the architecture and the arts present a staggering number of acute questions. These questions include those about the nature and ownership of our personal, social, cultural as well as political lives. They must also be understood in relation to the histories of the disciplines and how they may fundamentally challenge established ways of thinking and making. The nature of creative work must be re-examined, and the idea of reality itself becomes re-shuffled. Corporeal existences are thrown on the scale with virtual ones as the boundaries for how we understand perceptional dynamics are shifting. With Spatial Fabulations and Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality, the sixth publications in the series of the Städelschule Architecture Class, select topics central to Augmented and Virtual Reality in architecture and the arts are addressed. The publication includes texts by, amongst other, Michael Young, Space Popular and Curtis Roth as well as a conversation between Sanford Kwinter and Daniel Birnbaum