Phase II. The Challenge: How Can I Develop an Empirical and Creative Study of Experience?

Posted on by Lynda Joy

Recently, the following questions have been occupying my mind:

  1. What is art, what does it mean to be an artist, and how is art enacted?
  2. How can we resolve some of the major communication barriers that limit our ability to transmit our experiences to others?
  3. What can art transmit, as a mode of expression, that is beyond what language and other forms of communication might allow?
  4. How is technology changing the way that we experience our own bodies, our sense of self, and our sense of understanding the core phenomenality of one another?
  5. How can art and the empirical sciences combine to allow for a phenomenological investigation of experiential variations? Increasingly, there are art installations and technologies developed to capture the “what is it like to be” phenomenality of others, specifically the Machine to Be Another project and other developing technologies around the “embodiment system.” How can an empirical method be applied to these experiments to analyze, frame, and contextualize their scope and possibilities? What can we learn from subjects who undergo these altered-embodied and altered-self experiences?

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Lynda Joy is a American PhD student living in Denmark, researching sensorimotor training with multi-modal Augmented Reality technologies by using methodologies from Cognitive Neuropsychology. During her MA, she worked very closely with the Center for Subjectivity Research and studied Phenomenology and its plausible implementations in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science ("naturalized" phenomenology). Between her MA and PhD, she worked with labs in Berlin (Germany), Adelaide (Australia), Tallinn (Estonia), Zurich (Switzerland), and Paris (France). She was a keynote speaker at IEEE VR in 2016, and presented at the Augmented Reality World Expo in 2017. In her spare time, she is currently writing a novel about a virtual simulation of bardo (the stage between life and death to reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism). Her goal is to create experiences with new technologies that help people access more of the embodied subjectivity of another person/persons. Lynda wants her work to revere compassion to help allow the world to realize what a gift it is to both give and receive. Lynda is a strong believer in a better world that we collectively make by sharing a common vision, and that this vision comes through sharing our stories and our truths. That's what this blog is all about.