Sofie Hodara
MFA ’14 DMI
Adjunct Faculty
Fourth Spaces is a web-based interactive dictionary featuring 3D models created using Scaniverse, a free smartphone photogrammetry application. Photogrammetry tools like Scaniverse translate the physical world into digital models by using mobile devices to scan objects and environments.
According to Legacy Russell, “The glitch is the digital orgasm, where the machine takes a sigh, a shudder, and with a jerk, spasms.”1 In this project, the glitch serves as a reminder that digital systems are actually physical, and capable of behaviors that echo our own bodies. Even with practice, smartphone photogrammetry scans often remain broken, distorted, or incomplete. These representations highlight the limitations of our digital tools. This imagery evokes a “fourth space”: a realm between the physical and the digital, in which the scans create opportunities to forget or resist the physical world, while breathing life into and embodying the possibilities of digital spaces.
This iteration of the project includes four scans captured in Boston between 2024 and 2026. Each interactive image is paired with a unique vocabulary word and visual distortion that further emphasizes the material nature of Fourth Spaces.
1Legacy Russell, “Digital Dualism and the Glitch Feminism Manifesto,” Cyborgology, December 10, 2012, The Society Pages: Cyborgology.
Sofie Hodara is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University, where she teaches in Creative Media and Design. Her creative practice is rooted in how emerging technologies can support more socially conscious and discerning forms of making. Her work spans both physical and digital media, including traditional printmaking, paper weavings, and interactive installations. She holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
