{"id":652,"date":"2018-08-14T06:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antonyhallphd.wordpress.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:16:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T17:16:59","slug":"on-the-embodiment-of-a-discrete-volume-of-empty-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/on-the-embodiment-of-a-discrete-volume-of-empty-space\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On the embodiment of a discrete volume of empty space&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I mentioned before [<a href=\"http:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/illusions-of-invisible-alien-hands-3-arms-and-shrinking-bodies\/\">Illusions of Invisible, alien hands, 3 arms, and shrinking bodies\u2026<\/a>]\u00a0The<strong>\u00a0Invisible\u00a0Hand Illusion<\/strong>\u00a0is a version of the Rubber hand illusion which\u00a0uses no fake rubber hand at all.\u00a0 Instead, the participant focuses on an empty space in place of their hand. Sometimes a handless stump, and as a control, a wooden plank. they found that participants could embody a<strong>\u00a0\u2018Discrete Volume of Empty Space\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This interests me as it fits with a number of works which challenge the physicality of the art object, instead, I have presented amorphous forms of bubbling materials or even a plinth which automatically concealed the object.\u00a0The idea of making an automated system to generate the illusion of an invisible hand seems\u00a0the next step for my research. So far I have devised an idea for a mechanical device similar in approach to\u00a0Lin Charleston device [<a href=\"http:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog2018\/mechanically-augmented-reality\/\">Mechanically Augmented Reality]\u00a0<\/a>The difference is this would use a series of tapping leavers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aim is to somehow enclose this device into a plinth, into which the hand is placed.\u00a0 Thereby reinforcing its presentation as an &#8216;object&#8217; of art, as well as presenting this specific phenomenon of an embodied discrete volume of empty space\u00a0[ See my post\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/is-it-art-if-no-one-can-see-it\/\">is it art if no one can see it.] <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-495\" src=\"https:\/\/antonyhallphd.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/img_2438.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2438\" width=\"3024\" height=\"3122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_2438.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_2438-600x619.jpg 600w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_2438-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_2438-768x793.jpg 768w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_2438-992x1024.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned before [Illusions of Invisible, alien hands, 3 arms, and shrinking bodies\u2026]\u00a0The\u00a0Invisible\u00a0Hand Illusion\u00a0is a version of the Rubber hand illusion which\u00a0uses no fake rubber hand at all.\u00a0 Instead, the participant focuses on an empty space in place of their hand. Sometimes a handless stump, and as a control, a wooden plank. they found&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[6,44,60,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}