Char Davies essay, Changing Space: Virtual Reality as an Arena of Embodied Being, illuminates and frames her work of art Osmose. She explores the critical issues of Virtual Reality as they affect her practice as an artist. In particular, Davies is interested in how Virtual Reality has the ability to act as metaphor for subjective experience. For Davies, this metaphor derives from Bchelard’s understanding of experiencing space as it changes our nature. In a sense, Davies posits that Virtual Reality changes how we understand space through the use of ‘unusual sensibilities’ which transcend space and time, and create a ‘real’ experience that is more real than the exterior world through Virtual Realities ability to paradoxically incorporate a ‘sense of being in and out of the body’ (297). Davies views Virtual Reality as a technological advance that aligns itself with Heidigger’s understanding of “techne” being a “bringing-forth”. By using Heidigger, Davies positions Virtual reality as not an ends but rather as communicative device that changes and challenges our perceptions.

Davies, Char. “Changing Space: Virtual Reality as an Arena of Embodied Being.” Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. Ed. Randall Packer and Ken Jordan. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. 2001, pp. 293-300