Intentions: logical and subversive. The art of Marcel Duchamp, concept visualization, and immersive experience

Examines the intersection of symbolic logic, immersive experience (virtual reality) and concept visualization in the interpretation of the oeuvre of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). Influenced by the mathematicians Henri Poincare´ and Elie Jouffret, as well as by his own intense practice of chess and logic, Duchamp sought to merge the poetic and visceral nature of the aesthetic experience with the logical and systematic character of science. This convolution of elements as disparate as chance, 3D and 4D space-time, linguistics, logic and authorship does not allow for comfortable definitive explanation but rather one, like his work itself, that engages simultaneous multi-dimensional thinking. Duchamp questioned the purpose of `retinal art´, art which is merely visually beautiful, and examined the limitations of science as a singular method of interpreting and communicating experience. The body of his work stands as a systematic yet playful critique of deterministic reasoning. Using symbolic logic to characterize the most common interpretations of Duchamp´s work, the author suggests that concept visualization in 3D immersive experience offers a unique method for exploring and introducing the complex lattices of interpretation, intention and concept in the work of Duchamp