User:Lassebosch/reading writing methodologies/3 Trimester

Draft for essay

KEY THEMES

the peer/seeder, sharing, stealing, inspiration, the mass/crowd, science of 'emergence', the sum of the crowd, exploitation vs empowerment, control, prediction, shaping future, systematic simplification - cybernetic perception, crowd-control, surveillance, mimicking/imitation - group, Freedom as an excuse for exploitation,

PREVIOUS RELEVANT WRITINGS

'Future Map', Brian Holmes

'The Peer', 2'nd chapter, Cyburbia, James Harkin

'The Long Tail' - Mark Leckey

'The Guardian Angel', Opinion, 2. trimester.

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PREVIOUS WORKS

1) A Shutterstock Voyage (2012)

A growing personal fascination for stock-photography and video turned into a longer period of intense examination, working with and against the phenomenon. The project took shape as a expanding set of web-based tryouts, each experiment involving some sort of interaction.

By examining vast amounts of stock-photos, certain two central 'parameters of success' was laid out; 1) Scale-ability 2) Emotional response

Scale-ability relates to the question of application; the more generic the content of the photo is, the more it sells. Examples:

• Most often stock photography refrains from depicting factual events. Instead it seeks portray particular moods, feelings or 'states of being' all known to western cultures: Success, happiness, melancholy, love, pain, etc.

2) Questioning Crowd-sourcing (2012-2013)

3) TumblrJumpr (2013)