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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, exploring symbiotic information exchange between "selfs" and "machines". I want to track and catalogue a real or simulated experience and analyse the current significance of our status quo in the digital world (trans-humanism). Explore our shifting ethics in relation to an increasing dependency on electronics (algorithms, numbers, data) and create a cross-over publication in a unique digital & physical environment.

Type of online & offline platform for scenarios (speculating) on the future, showing that data is not neutral and subjective, but it can be meaningful...

Bio-Ethics, Morphological Freedom, trans-humanism, moral significance of our status quo, simulated reality, book, electronic literature, hybrid publishing, ebook, ...

Why do you want to make it?

the shifting ethics between human and non human, self-awareness through data, being way more critical about ourselves. Physiological functioning 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