User:Themsen/SDR-7

What has been done so far

• Mushroom and Charcoal Sketches
• Artificial Voice Expriment 1
• Artificial Voice Experiment 2
• Research into living networks (fungi)
• Short Daily Aims List
• Python Experiments 1 (Image)
• Python Experiments 2 (Video)
• Media Blight

Developing Interests

• Technically

Trim1: In the first trimester I focused more on the play with digital media using unconventional yet simple methods for getting my message across. I was more interested in learning than doing, I nonetheless made some memorable presentations like "Skype & Cigarettes". I felt uncomfortoble in my simple approaches to media. What I made were merely manipulations of the physical sphere through the digital. There was no real feedback between them and what I made ('Skype and Cigarettes' to a lesser degree) did not feel grounded in both, which I wanted it to be. I also wanted to make a larger project where I could collect my media exercises into a coherent model, but my media experiments seemed so seperate, so far apart that I couldn't begin to imagine how I would make a collection.

Trim2: With the photobook exercise I began to work more with a solid narrative, literally. I found that making what was physical, a photobook, but connected to the virtual. I wanted to create a narrative, what developed into Media Blight, which was both grounded in the physical and the digital; the photobook as printed media with a message about what the digital 'actually' (according to the Media Blight) was.

• Conceptually

When Annette suggested Insect Media. I tied my basic interests in cybernetic theory with

Big Baby Web

What: Distorting a tweet through a web of listening and talking babies.

Tools used

1. .Twitter @BigBabyHears (input)
2. .Text to speech application
3. .Small Speaker (arduino?)
4. .Small Recorder (arduino?)
5. .Speech to text application
6. .Twitter @BigBabySays (output)

How: Why:

First Draft and Dummy

Draft Sketch

Dummy