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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 | 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". But I felt uncomfortoble in my simple approaches to media. What I made were merely manipulations on the physical sphere through the digital (for example, our perception of communication in 'Skype & Cigarettes', and our perception of space in 'Virtual Kidnapping'). 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 was a fresh breath of air. I had such big ideas for how I was going to do it! 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. But something kept me from doing it, I began to doubt myself; whether I could actually do this; and this doubt went from a nuisance in the middle of trimester 2 to a full-on paralysis at the end. I could not put my thoughts in paper without immediately coming up with a 'better' alternative. As time went on I spent more and more time on trying to order my ideas, focusing on one thing, which was a lost cause and it consumed all my energy. Hindisght is a female-canine as they say. I started working with my hands, but the ideas were too large, too vague to put into a larger context. My doubt spread to other areas of my life until I was completely cocooned in doubt. I was afraid of telling you tutors that I didn't know what I was doing, but, of course everyone noticed. I was insecure, and so I took to pride as I suppose I thought I could solve it myself. | 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 was a fresh breath of air. I had such big ideas for how I was going to do it! 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. But something kept me from doing it, I began to doubt myself; whether I could actually do this; and this doubt went from a nuisance in the middle of trimester 2 to a full-on paralysis at the end. I could not put my thoughts in paper without immediately coming up with a 'better' alternative. As time went on I spent more and more time on trying to order my ideas, focusing on one thing, which was a lost cause and it consumed all my energy. Hindisght is a female-canine as they say. I started working with my hands, but the ideas were too large, too vague to put into a larger context. My doubt spread to other areas of my life until I was completely cocooned in doubt. I was afraid of telling you tutors that I didn't know what I was doing, but, of course everyone noticed. I was insecure, and so I took to pride as I suppose I thought I could solve it myself. | ||
Revision as of 15:06, 24 April 2015
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". But I felt uncomfortoble in my simple approaches to media. What I made were merely manipulations on the physical sphere through the digital (for example, our perception of communication in 'Skype & Cigarettes', and our perception of space in 'Virtual Kidnapping'). 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 was a fresh breath of air. I had such big ideas for how I was going to do it! 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. But something kept me from doing it, I began to doubt myself; whether I could actually do this; and this doubt went from a nuisance in the middle of trimester 2 to a full-on paralysis at the end. I could not put my thoughts in paper without immediately coming up with a 'better' alternative. As time went on I spent more and more time on trying to order my ideas, focusing on one thing, which was a lost cause and it consumed all my energy. Hindisght is a female-canine as they say. I started working with my hands, but the ideas were too large, too vague to put into a larger context. My doubt spread to other areas of my life until I was completely cocooned in doubt. I was afraid of telling you tutors that I didn't know what I was doing, but, of course everyone noticed. I was insecure, and so I took to pride as I suppose I thought I could solve it myself.
- 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
- .Twitter @BigBabyHears (input)
- .Text to speech application
- .Small Speaker (arduino?)
- .Small Recorder (arduino?)
- .Speech to text application
- .Twitter @BigBabySays (output)
How: Why:
First Draft and Dummy
Draft Sketch
Dummy
