This thesis discusses how individual experience, memory, and network technology come together to allow audience participation in art, showing how the audience can visit an installation that exists both in virtual and real space. The author presented three works: Punctum - Memory from the Real and Virtual, IT - Looking at you, and Me. All three works explore visual experiences (through the use of photography) as the audience visits the art in both real and virtual space.

Visitation runs through all three artworks: Punctum - Memory from the Real and Virtual allows the audience to visit (unexpectedly) with photographic scenery and be rephotographed; the rephotograph of the visit seemingly retracing a distant memory. IT - Looking at You explores the interaction between visitors (viewers of the artwork) who later revisit the exhibit and see photographs of themselves. We collect the photographs taken by IT as visitors view IT, exhibiting these photographs in the gallery for the visitors to revisit. Me produces virtual which are displayed in the exhibit, allowing visitors to make a make a virtual journey. Further, the process of visiting these pieces are recorded in images.

The thesis concludes with a discussion of the visitor’s body co-existing in reality and virtual space and the different perceptions these engender, with a focus on the possibility of putting the artist’s body into an artwork.