MA Thesis "​Sensual Alterity of Digital Objects"

This thesis hypothesizes ways in which contemporary theory constructs sensual qualities in digital objects. I disrupt the common epistemological understandings of objects to describe what constitutes a sensual alterity. The sensible object is defined to be something more than representing a real object.This thesis expands upon demonstration files available in breve, an open-source, multi-agent simulation software. The digital object substructure is unpacked through the lenses of theorists Karan Barad and Graham Harman. I negotiate digital bodies as vertices and attributes to be ontologically stable. I formulate rasterization (transferring vector to pixel visualization) to be a model of the intraactions
(assemblage of causal forces) of agential separability (practice of mattering) showcasing the apparatus as inexhaustible in its penetrative cut. I explore this sensual exteriority and apply the apparatus of touch to indicate the capacity of digital objects to experience otherness, or sensual alterity.
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Keywords: object, digital, simulation, sensual, apparatus, boundary, touch, alterity, rasterization, exteriority.
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Creative Techniques Handbook: Design Fiction

Design Fiction encourages the building of a story and the world around a product, where by practitioners develop insights regarding their products use and form as well as its relation to the world around it. Co-authored and developed by Theresa Slater and Adam Owen. Creative Techniques Handbook 2015 Digital Futures OCAD University. Published by Suzanne Stein 2015.

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