Today we formed our teams in our new tutorial group "Virtual 1: Hypothetical", in which our tutor wasn't present but hopefully it won't be too much of a setback. My group is made up of myself, Alana Kowalczyk, and two other girls whom I'd never met before, Megan Stewart and Bryoni Swan.
We began by defining virtual, and decided upon two categories that we believed to encompass all facets of the term: DIGITAL and EXPERIENTIAL.
Digital: objective, shared, independent, universally adaptable framework which can be personalised, communication, media (infrastructure for communication), social networking, servers (infrastructure), telephones + satellites
Experiential: subjective, personal, dependent (reliant on another thing to be created), relationships, light + shadow, sound + music, colour, atmosphere, mood, ambiance, ideology + values, power, culture, accessibility, memory, imagination, family (infrastructure for relationships)
I found that there was some overlap between the two, or that one may assist or create or form the other. For example, a social networking site like Facebook is an element of digital virtual, as it operates within the digital realm of computing, and one can create alternate personas within it (although this is not it's intended use). However, it is also a platform for the experiential virtual, providing infrastructure for relationships.
After discussing what area of Parliament House we might look at re-creating, we decided upon the National Archives, or Library, or both. We found they are generally overlooked when it come to importance despite the fact that they are so valuable. Constitutions and laws, rules and regulations, historical documents and are all stored in the archives.
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