User:Alexander Roidl/projectproposal

What do you want to make?

• I want to research about digital data and its structure (how is it stored / transferred / displayed?).
• With a focus on the implications of data on visual culture. (The form of data??) (Making databases as art / idea of instructions as art & design)
• How does the form of the database get visible?
• How does the database interact with the outside world? (Influences)

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• Models that shape the world
• Data > model > reality (reality itself is lost and outplaying us)
• Machine learning literal models

How do you plan to make it?

• Through research / reading & writing about data & visual culture
• Experiments going along with the research that will accumulate to one final work

What is your timetable?

1. Gather material (Literature / References)

2. Read

3. Write

4. Do –

Why do you want to make it?

• It is a logical continuation of my personal interest / work / research
• It is a contemporary issue (thinking of technologies like blockchain / machine learning … that use this kind of structures as their fundamentals)

Who can help you and how?

• PZI Tutors > Research / Prototyping
• XPUB Gang

Relation to previous practice

• I did previous research on data and how it converts into narrative
• I worked on collections of data
• I printed databases
• I develop software / am interested in the digital culture / computation

Relation to a larger context

• Machine Learning as Art
• Data is everywhere and it is »the good«
• Big Data

References

• »Raw data« is an oxymoron
• Database Aesthetics
• Database as Symbolic Form
• Essays on the culture of software

Ideas

• The image as a database / array of pixels (except vectorfiles)
• Is there a file format that works in a different way?
• image files (SVG, JPEG for visualisation)

Next week

• Theme thesis
• Annotated bibliography with 5 key texts (synopsis)
• A mini prototype / sketch / gesture in relation to your project proposal