
throughaglassdarkly
|ReflectionsOnTheAffectivityOfMirroredComposition.
AnexegesissubmittedinfulfilmentoftherequirementsforthedegreeofMasters
ofDesign
RomaineLogere
B.A.ComputerMediatedArt,VictoriaUniversityofTechnology,2000
SpatialInformationArchitectureLaboratory
SchoolofArchitectureandDesign
DesignandSocialContextPortfolio
RMITUniversity,Melbourne,Australia
ExegesissubmittedAugust2009

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Declaration
IherebydeclarethatthefollowingMastersbyResearch(Project)exceptwhere
due acknowledgement has been made, is my own work and has not been
submitted previously, in whole or in part, to qualify for any other academic
award.Thecontentofthethesisistheresultofworkthathasbeencarriedout
since the official date of the approved research program – June 2004. Any
editorialwork,paidorunpaid,carriedoutbyathirdpartyisacknowledged.
RomaineLogere
MastersCandidate
SpatialInformationArchitectureLaboratory
RMITUniversity,Melbourne
August2009

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Acknowledgements
Iwouldliketoacknowledgethefollowingpeoplefortheirhelpandsupportin
realisingthisbodyofwork:
− MySupervisorsDr.PiaEdnie‐BrownandMs.SuzieAttiwillfortheir
ongoingsupport;
− Dr.JuliettePeersforherinvaluableguidance,adviceandtime;
− theSpatialInformationArchitectureLaboratoryfortheirassistanceand
understanding;
− Dr.M.HankHaeusler,mycolleagueandcollaborator,forhisunflagging
encouragementandhelpinrealizingbothiterationsofthe.labyrinth.
project;
− LaurencePetersonandDr.DominikHolzerfortheirgenerousassistance
installingthe.labyrinth.iterationI
− MichelleHamer,JessHamer,JohanMårdandRowanOpatforpatienceand
cooperationaboveandbeyondthecallofduty;
− DaleCornellforhisadviceandsupportinproducing.labyrinth.ProjectI;
− MichaelCoburnforhisassistanceinstallingthe.pony.researchartefactfor
theExquisiteCreaturesexhibition.

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Abstract:
Thisbodyofworkistheculminationofapart‐timefiveyearinvestigation into
the use of mirroring in digital art composition and its potential to generate
affectiveintensity.
The research has occurred through a series of installative works and artefacts
producedwithdigitalmediainwhichmirroredoperationshavebeenemployed
inavarietyofdifferentways.Theaimoftheseexplorationswastodevelopand
articulateacompositionalapproachbasedinactsofmirroring, with the aim of
extendingaffectiveinvitationstotheviewer.Theprocessdrewfromfieldsacross
mythandculturalproduction,cognitivedevelopment,designtheoryandcultural
history. The investigation served to articulate the latent flux inferred in
mirroringwhichisfundamentaltoalltransformativeprocesses.

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Tableofcontents
Introduction 12
Scope|Approach|Influences 17
Overviewofthestudy 19
Chapter1|TheHauntedScreen 24
Chapter2|TheHauntedInteraction:.@.nimatus 37
Chapter3|TheHauntedReflection:.[un]site.47
Chapter4 |TheHauntedSubject::.labyrinth. 59
+.theenchantedcornfield.
Chapter5|Outcomes+Synthesis 75
Mirroringasapsychologicalnarrative:theroleofthedoubled
other 75
Mirroringasuncannyconduit:renarrationsofsurface76
Mirroringasaconditionofinteractivity|relationaldynamics77
Mirroringasimplicationofagency 78
Mirroringasaspatialconsideration78
Installativeconsiderations79
Relevancies81
Appendices 85
GlossaryofRelevantTerminology95
Bibliography106

