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The ‘object amplifier’ is a device in which allows humans to enter into a world that is typically only inhabited by objects. As humans dominantly perceive sound through air, objects perceive their sonic environment through feeling. It is in this feeling of sound that vibrations are physically transferred from material to material or object to object. Access into this world, and that of a flat ontology, can be achieved through the use of contact microphones and amplification. This realm is something we can only vaguely imagine, and not part of our conventional way of perceiving things. The amplifier, is a device, or a lens, that gives the human (user) the capability to feel sound or hear sound as objects do, listen to intrinsic qualities of an object, or listen to an active dialog happening internally between a set or family of objects and their immediate spatial context.

 

An alternative of the anthropocentric world view, is one that focused on a world made of discrete, withdrawn entities, things that challenge and exceed definition through relations alone. This impulse decenters the human-object or mind-world relation that weaves through current phenomenological discourse or other modes of direct human access, instead tapping into a strange sub phenomenal world that we can’t see or know but can try to imagine. It forces a reevaluation of the conventions of sensation and understanding of things, opening up the possibility of crossing over between how things appear and their strange inner realities and relations. By including objects and embracing their own equal but different signatures into our own world views, it can further our understanding of the difference between things and become conscious that things equally exist independent from our own self-centered vantage point affording us an insight into the perspective of objects.

 

ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF OBJECTS

 

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

CRITIC. ORKAN TELHAN

2015

 

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ABOUT

 

 

JOSEPH GIAMPIETRO IS A DESIGNER LIVING AND WORKING IN NEW YORK CITY

 

JOSEPH IS A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DESIGN WITH A MASTER DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE

 

FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER /

SOUND DESIGNER / AUDIO ENGINEER

HISTORY

 

 

HIRSUTA

COMPETITION TEAM

2017

 

PRATT INSTITUTE

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - BRUCE MAU

2017 - PRESENT

 

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

LECTURER - ROBERT STUART-SMITH

LECTURER - GEORGINA HULJICH

2014 - PRESENT

 

DAVID JAY WEINER ARCHITECTS

JUNIOR ARCHITECT

2016 - PRESENT

 

IBANEZKIM

PHOTOGRAPHER / SOUND DESIGNER

2016

 

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE

EMERGING DESIGN + RESEARCH CERTIFICATE

2013-2016

 

SU11 ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN

COMPETITION TEAM

2015

 

STOKES ARCHITECTURE

INTERN

2014

 

OLSAVSKY JAMINET ARCHITECTS

INTERN

2013

 

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE + ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

2008-2012

CONTACT

 

 

JOSEPH.M.GIAMPIETRO@GMAIL.COM

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