Beyond The Visual

This is a ~10-minute spatiotemporal experience that includes spatial audio. It is a product of a week-long experimental workshop taught at the 2018 edition of the architectural festival of the Polish Association of Architecture Students (OSSA), titled "Vision" (October 13-21 2018, Łodz, Poland). The workshop was carried out in an architectural context by Constantinos Miltiadis and Gerriet K. Sharma, with 7 participants, all architecture students.

"Beyond the Visual" deals with aural manifestations of space. The experience is based on spaces "hallucinated" in blindfolded listening sessions of the binaural spatial audio piece "grrawe" (Gerriet K. Sharma). It consists of 8 environments arranged sequentially over the piece 'grrawe'. These, originate in sketches done by the 7 workshop participants to visualize 'spaces heard' in different sections of the piece during the blindfolded listening session, which were transposed into spatiotemporal VR environments in Unity.

The original application was developed for VR. The apps provided are conventional/non-VR versions for OSX and Windows.

Binaural audio - Requires headphones.

Workshop participants Kelly Babbar, Aleksandra Bartczak, Rafał Golczyk, Jakub Gondorowicz, Joanna Lipnicka, Karol Wawrzkiewicz and Maja Wrzeszcz.

Workshop tutors Constantinos Miltiadis & Gerriet K. Sharma

Workshop documentation publication

The curriculum, bibliography, process, and outcomes of the workshop are documented in an entry in the Research Catalogue (Society for Artistic Research), published in the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) in 2021, including a reference to this itch.io entry for downloading the experience. See Miltiadis & Sharma (2021): 

Miltiadis, Constantinos, and Gerriet K. Sharma. ‘Beyond the Visual - A Research Curriculum for Explorations in Spatiotemporal Environments’. Journal for Artistic Research, no. 24 (27 September 2021). https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/815001/815002.

See also: http://studioany.com/teaching/btv_ossa_2018/