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Graduate Proposal:

Draft

What do you want to make?

Based on the idea of E-Lit (Electronic Literature), 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 either track and catalogue a real or simulated experience, or create a series of factual stories. Throughout analyse the significance of our status quo in the digital world (trans-humanism) and the current shifting ethics in relation to an increasing dependency on technology (algorithms, numbers, data). This could be used to further speculate on future scenarios?

This can be a platform with multiple hybrid publications, or a single cross-over publication set in a unique digital & physical environment. It can also be seen as a type of story-telling platform, in which data is not neutral but subjective and meaningful.

Why do you want to make it?

This is a topic of big relevance for our contemporary society, in which we are constantly lurking in the digital world, being not too mindful about our environments and the roles we are taking. We need to be more critical and self-aware about how technology is influencing (with pros and cons) our lifestyle. On the other hand, I am also greatly inspired by the yet mysterious and bizarre possibilities of future scenarios and how will they merge within our lifestyles.

Topics on Morphological Freedom, bio-ethics, trans-humanism, simulated reality, e-lit or hypertext stories, hybrid publishing, ebook, ...

Relation to larger context

Looking out for identity it is what make us become an "actor network", there is a cultural perspective of society in relation to personal data as a valuable, interesting and/or hazardous thing.

Who can help and how?

How do you plan to make it?

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