vogmae interactive networked video practice

This paper was written and presented as a hypertext, written in Tinderbox. This is the opening node:

In this hypertext I intend to explore four key tropes of what I'm going to provisionally label as 'digital environmenting' and their relationship to the idea of an affective atlas - or an atlas of affect. These tropes are intensity, vector, and the virtual and actual. These terms are based on a proposition for an affective atlas written by my colleagues where they stated "[an affective atlas] has intensities of the virtual and actual".

To this extent this essay perhaps offers little that is specific to the concept of an affective atlas, but is instead a sketching of the epistemological zeitgeist that informs the philosophical baggage that informs one facet of an affective atlas project. It is the projects intellectual and philosophical 'back story'.