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why is is necessary
why is is necessary
how is it going to be made
how is it going to be made


In other words:
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how are they gonna do it
how are they gonna do it
... (something else)
... (something else)


* who is going to be at the graduation proposal assesment?:
* who is going to be at the graduation proposal assesment?:
simon, renee aymeric, barend, steve
simon, renee aymeric, barend, steve


what will happen?:
what will happen?:
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they will tell us then if it needs more work or not.
they will tell us then if it needs more work or not.
some people have to resubmit, it's more like clarification.
some people have to resubmit, it's more like clarification.


the whole thing is more like 'how we understand your graduation proposal'
the whole thing is more like 'how we understand your graduation proposal'

Revision as of 14:31, 7 December 2011

17th of October 2011

keywords portfolio

  • mixing and matching
  • collaboration
  • provocation
  • nostalgia
  • reminiscence
  • individual experience
  • interpretations
  • what happens inside your brain (manipulation?)
  • reality vs.expectations/perception/lies
  • generative & computational meets old fashioned fuzzy feeling
  • contradictions


19 of October 2011, in class?

the forget book

dream analogy book

31st of October 2011, in class?

laurie anderson - dreampeace

salvador dali, what is his process of drawing to painting

rss sweater

translation and making things physically tangible. physicallity. dreams are so not that.

31st of October 2011, notes by Laura during presentation

Are you spending much time at dream analysis? Freud's book. Are you interested in the mechanism of dreams?
Interested in how do they're related to one another, also inside the dream.
Are you more interested in the content or the structure?
Not really, places are just place A and place B.
Do you think of working with images? Do you think of doing the reverse (such as from text -> to images)
Subjective patterns, and externalize them and make something completely different
interested in the mechanism of dreams, and how can that be translated into a machine
structure does have a certain pattern and interested in replicating it in some way
Life of Manuel Swedenborg, scientist 1800s, inventor- very rational life- at some point, his dreams started to influence his own behaviour, and his life became influenced by his dreams. He became a theologian, all of a sudden, claiming that god was talking to him, and angels, and stuff.

Inception.gif

martin housen? version of the helmet of angels.
also William Blake - stuff
If there's a moment in which you claim there's some reality in what you dream - in that moment it becomes interesting to the rest of us / and psychoanalysis retroengineers the claim to reality (an encrypted version of a part of your life you don't wish to know about


Amy says: 'waking life' movie, protagonist in lucid dream

14th of November 2011, group?

visual analogies to processes. retelling. fact that something is fragmentary, through conspiracy or reliving a trauma and trying to make sense of it.

susan hiller - dream mapping 1974

tedtalks lifelogging

tilburg textile museum


16th of November 2011 - with Steve

File:Steve 11-16-2011.ogg to make tangible something that is not there, something impossible to grasp. memories, sound to image (when you make it it's gone), catch the unseen/unheard. you can do it to a certain level, but you can't do it completely.


Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers: Poetical Science eBook by Betty Alexandra Toole, Ed.D.

emphasis in relation to dreams and draw!


Norbert wiener.jpg
M.I.T professor Norbert Wiener testing a device capable of converting speech sounds into patterns

May 1949, Professor Wiener sitting like a boss, showing his project researching tremors/parkinson. The steering of the cart is decided by the photo cells on the front.
Wiener May1949.jpeg

Wiener-lifep2.jpeg

Moth.gif Wiener-modelp2.jpeg

18th of November 2011, with Steve

File:Steve 11-30-2011.ogg

23rd of November 2011

Went to see Lucid Dreaming in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam - Annotate! + add pictures and movieclips I made
2011-11-23%2B15.18.47.jpg

29th of November 2011 - with Aymeric

File:Aymeric29thofnovember2011.ogg roland barthes - the third meaning http://thethirdmeaning.blogspot.com/2007/10/roland-barthes-third-meaning.html

daniel dennett - consciousness explained
part of the book explains how memory works - brain follows different models. orwellian model, etc.

hofstadter - i am a strange loop
mix of science, philosophy, what's the self, brain as a feedback machine, having input (very personal in comparison to dennett, which is scientific)

  • navigation
  • process of remembering
  • objects in dreams. machine that make new machines.

storytelling, navigational system

turn into creative methodology, highlight 3 points, make it look like i'm in control


30th of November 2011 - with Steve in class

File:Steve 11-30-2011.ogg clarify this area of research. focus is really pulling in. research into those area's: memory is created as we remember. i'm inventing as i'm trying to remember, in this way my mind is a translation machine from dreams to memory, creating something physical. through practice i'm finding these things out. key thing!

  • Look at Furtherfield, weaving blogs.

http://www.furtherfield.org/


how internal things can be articulated/translated/decoded. quinten for example does the opposite, he is interested how the external becomes internal. afterimage.


email janis about bibliography list about dreams.

to do:

  • fix bibliography
  • update proposal


7th of December 2011

  • Reading each others graduate proposals:

can you identify the research question can you identify the project why is is necessary how is it going to be made


In other words: what is the project how are they gonna do it ... (something else)


  • who is going to be at the graduation proposal assesment?:

simon, renee aymeric, barend, steve


what will happen?: they will read proposals and talk about it (will it fly or not) then they will invite us in. you can bring stuff in to show if you like. they will tell us then if it needs more work or not. some people have to resubmit, it's more like clarification.


the whole thing is more like 'how we understand your graduation proposal'