Shanken Pages 166-182

First off, I had no idea what the world SIMULACRA meant. So I looked it up in the dictionary.

Simulacra::  image, representation <a reasonable simulacrum of reality — Martin Mayer>

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:  an insubstantial form or semblance of something 

Wonderful! I believe that this can be greatly explained by Char Davies interactive installation "Osmose". His installation allows the viewer to change the scene by the way that they breath. Deep breathes or or regular breaths. His piece is many many world spaces captured to create a forest scene. Each environment previewed by the interactee can be descended differently. This is definitely a mind altering piece and allows the viewer to get deeply involved. He even mentions that the viewer is slowly and gently brought back to reality. 

But, after knowing what this word means. We as a class and students do this all the time to get ourselves through homework, or even in our art pieces. Because as every artists goal, is to create something that nobody has ever done before, but unfortunately our ideas just naturally evolve from someone else's idea.