Project Proposal

Kingston College BA Digital Arts

Design for Simulation: Project proposal

I propose to build a piece of installation art for my Design for Simulation project.

The objective of this project is to explore the philosophical ideas and implications of the real, as seen by the idea of Ontology, through making people consider things that are intangible to their senses, but known to their brain.

The installation will comprise of a room, at the corners of which will be found one loudspeaker. All of these loudspeakers will be connected to a frequency generator. The walls of the room will be covered in writing, written in an infrared ink.

The loudspeakers will generate an ultrasonic frequency, which is inaudible to the human ear, and, unlike an infrasonic frequency, it will not create a detectable physical vibration in the room. Similarly, the walls will be covered in writing written in infrared ink. The ink will not be visible to the human eye, and will not be at all visible on the walls to the naked human eye.

When walking into the installation, immediately to people’s side, will be an explanation of what is going on in the room written on a plaque or other display method. They will be told that sound is coming out of the loudspeakers, and that there is something written on the wall.

Except that what people will be told will be a lie.

There will be no sounds emanating from the speakers, and nothing written on the walls. The artwork will be as much an exploration of the human concepts of the real as they will be of people’s trust in an artist. There are various reasons for doing this.

1. I wish to explore a particular idea, but I don’t possess the required equipment, or the finances to acquire the requisite equipment.
2. Because people are not meant to be able to see or hear anything in particular, the artwork is in no way diminished by not actually carrying out the actions which I claim it does.

What I’m trying to do with this project is to instil the idea in people that we’re being tricked by our physical senses. What we perceive as real is only a small part of what is around us, and that, due to our innate biological limitations, our senses are inadequate in deciphering whether something is real or not. As such, the world that we live in can easily be seen as a form of illusion.

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