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Graduate Proposal:

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What do you want to make?

I want to deepen into the topic of data collection and create a story-telling device, so that I can track and catalogue some sort of experience by turning data into stories, showing that data is not neutral and what they tell us about the World around us is subjective, but it can be meaningful. To be more specific, I want to create a series of cross-over publications having a unique "space" to function as reading platforms for scenarios speculating on the future.

Infographics, Interface, symbiotically exchange information, upgrade...

Bio-Ethics, Morpholical Freedom, trans-humanism, moral significance of our status quo, simulated reality, book..

Self-awareness through data, being way more critical about our understanding.

Why do you want to make it?

Physiological functioning is increasingly dependent on electronics. Process of union between technology and body. Perceiving different. Creating extensions of our body’s given natural qualities. Tools for self-created expression, they make a statement about their social influence. Lurking in the digital world, being more mindful about our environments... Online anonymity, transgression... in the absence of leadership, people have the choice to take different roles.

Relation to larger context

Looking out for Identity, Actor network, cultural perspective of society in relation to self-enhancement, whether digitally or physically. Is personal data so valuable, interesting or a hazard? Human and non human devices.

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Who can help and how?

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How do you plan to make it?

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What is your timetable

I want to start researching the conceptual implications of this issue and alongside keep on producing prototypes to help me acquiring skills and a better a understanding of its theoretical & technical complexities. This means to find out why this topic is interesting to an specific audience, and how to communicate it. Ideally by the end of each trimester I will be able to gather a series of prototypes and collect more relevant thoughts, which will define a more visible pattern of what my work will be.

References

Brendan Dawes. Artist and designer exploring the interaction of objects, people, art and technology using form and code with a mix of analog and digital materials.
Nicholas Felton

Back to old sources:

Lanier, J. (2010) You Are Not a Gadget, Penguin Adult Hayles, K (2008) How We Became Posthuman. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, University of Chicago Press
What is Hypertext Fiction?
Electronic Literature Collection 3, 2016
Electronic Literature Collection 2, 2011
Electronic Literature Collection 1, 2006
Eastgate - Patchwork Girl
"Now You're Playing With Power" - Nintendo 1986 Commercial
Feedback: Signal Noise

Helpful Webs for now:

The Guardian Data blog
http://thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com/archive%7C The digital Human Archive]
https://wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/superhuman%7C Superhuman exhibition]
Music and Fractal Landscapes
Post Digital publishing Archive
Daniel Engber - article
The Internet of Cells - article

Some possible book sources:

Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945, Halpern, Orit
From Print to eBooks - A Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts, Pzwart
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future
Artists’ Magazines. An Alternative Space for Art
The Century of Artists' Books, Drucker, Johanna
Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production, Drucker, Johanna
Reading Writing Interfaces, Emerson, Lori
Book to the Future, Cataloguing the World, Wright, Alex
Book to the Future, Worthington, Simon
Writing Machines, Hayles, Katherine