AN ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENTIAL SPACE

AT THE CLOSE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

 

 

MARTIN WALCH

BFA Hons

 

 

Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for

the degree of Master of Fine Art by Research

 

 

University of Tasmania

School of Art at Hobart

 

 

February 1998

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

Aims

 

Introduction

 

Scientific Space; – The arbitrariness of units becomes the Rule

 

Stereoscopic Space

 

Digital Mappings of Stereoscopic Space

 

How the West was One

 

Mt Lyell-  Contested Landscape

 

Influences

 

Methodology

 

Technical Issues

 

Conclusions

 

List of Illustrations

 

Bibliography

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Aims of the Project

The aim of the project has been to:

(a)     investigate the influence that systems of spatial representation exert upon the communication of aesthetic qualities arising specifically from direct experience of our physical environment;

(b)     to study the qualitative differences in perception of landscape space experienced through systems of visual representation used in contemporary visual art; and

(c)     to investigate the capacity of digitally augmented stereoscopy to visualise new models of landscape suitable to an art gallery setting.