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Extended Umwelt: a thesis on losing control and connecting to chaos (2025)

Sarah Hoogman
Ega Huurdeman

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Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design The complexity of nature is everywhere around us, from the microscopic, indeed invisible elements in the world, to the macroscopic, to the transhuman, to the supernatural. Sometimes it goes beyond our human perceptions, which for me, is a gateway to the realisation that there are so many more systems besides our intelligent human-controlled systems that are elusive to us. Imagine if we could perceive the world with a different perception. What if we could also sense the microscopic scale with our naked eye, or if we could receive light or sound outside our spectrum? Suppose we become aware that everything around us is in constant motion of vibrations. Perhaps we would see that we as human beings are only one element of so many more elements in nature. In this way, could we let go of our control over the systems in Gaia and leave more room for nature’s chaos? The experience of receiving vibrations beyond our senses will help us to create a new perception of our human-centred perspective of the Anthropocene.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsBachelor Interactive Media Design
date05/07/2022
published21/05/2025
last modified21/05/2025
statuspublished
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affiliationRoyal Academ of Art, The Hague
copyrightSarah Hoogman
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1701953/1701952
published inRoyal Academy of Art, The Hague
portal issue0. Publications 2022


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