Your Localisation Exposed
Blake Johnston
Your Localisation Exposed is a wearable technology installation which explores the deconstruction of the audience’s sensorium. Informed by the pioneering perceptual experiments of George Malcolm Straton, the work rearrangers the audience’s perceptual apparatus in order to reveal perceptual processes that often go unnoticed or overlooked. The work inverts the wearer’s aural field along the horizontal plane, making their left their right, and their right their left. This inversion forces the wearer’s perceptual system into a state of conflict, as the information from their visual and aural sense becomes incongruent. The work allows for the wearer to then experience and explore their environment with this new arrangement of their perception, and provokes them to contemplate their normal modes of experience.
Your Localisation Exposed is part of a series of works that explore a Metaperceptual approach to sound art. Metaperceptual artworks use the perception of the audience as their materials in order to provoke their audiences to direct their attention back upon themselves. This self-observation can produce powerful introspective experiences, where audiences are provoked into observing the nature of their perception and the subjectivity of their experience.
You are invited to put on the headset and explore your environment with your new perceptual apparatus.
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Blake Johnston is a sound artist, technologist, academic, and composer from Aotearoa, New Zealand. His practice sits at the intersection of experience design and emerging forms of technology, synthesising these fields to explore the perception of the audience. His work adopts new forms of technology to create environments and experiences across multiple disciplines including live performance, kinetic sculpture, musical mechatronics, wearable technology, and installation art.
Blake’s works explore a new approach to sound art, coined metaperceptual, which seeks to create extraordinary experiences and environments that invite the audience to explore their own perception. The audience’s unique subjectivity is the core focus, with the audience’s presence and perspective co-creating the artworks with the curated environment. The metaperceptual approach affords a method of creating deeply introspective experiences; interactive in a way that gives the audience control over their navigation of the artwork, gallery environment, and their own senses.
Blake Johnston
Your Localisation Exposed is a wearable technology installation which explores the deconstruction of the audience’s sensorium. Informed by the pioneering perceptual experiments of George Malcolm Straton, the work rearrangers the audience’s perceptual apparatus in order to reveal perceptual processes that often go unnoticed or overlooked. The work inverts the wearer’s aural field along the horizontal plane, making their left their right, and their right their left. This inversion forces the wearer’s perceptual system into a state of conflict, as the information from their visual and aural sense becomes incongruent. The work allows for the wearer to then experience and explore their environment with this new arrangement of their perception, and provokes them to contemplate their normal modes of experience.
Your Localisation Exposed is part of a series of works that explore a Metaperceptual approach to sound art. Metaperceptual artworks use the perception of the audience as their materials in order to provoke their audiences to direct their attention back upon themselves. This self-observation can produce powerful introspective experiences, where audiences are provoked into observing the nature of their perception and the subjectivity of their experience.
You are invited to put on the headset and explore your environment with your new perceptual apparatus.
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Blake Johnston is a sound artist, technologist, academic, and composer from Aotearoa, New Zealand. His practice sits at the intersection of experience design and emerging forms of technology, synthesising these fields to explore the perception of the audience. His work adopts new forms of technology to create environments and experiences across multiple disciplines including live performance, kinetic sculpture, musical mechatronics, wearable technology, and installation art.
Blake’s works explore a new approach to sound art, coined metaperceptual, which seeks to create extraordinary experiences and environments that invite the audience to explore their own perception. The audience’s unique subjectivity is the core focus, with the audience’s presence and perspective co-creating the artworks with the curated environment. The metaperceptual approach affords a method of creating deeply introspective experiences; interactive in a way that gives the audience control over their navigation of the artwork, gallery environment, and their own senses.
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