User:Max Dovey/Reading Writing Research Methodologies

TRIMESTER 1

Week 1

Research , Writing and Methodologies 11/09/2013

100 words for each project (Max Dovey )

Emotional Stock Market

An Installation in which real time online content is straeamed and printed

according to emotional categorization. Modified receipt printers continuously

print out tweets containing the words ‘happy’, ‘sad’ and ‘love’. A trading

of exchanged tweets takes places between audience and performer,

according to the value of the tweets. The receipt paper piles up on the floor

below computer screens that display the streaming information. A website

accompanies the project displaying the share index and value of each

emotional that is being expressed in the tweets.

Yourhomepage

A large google maps website that contains different coloured landmark icons

that reveal videos of people remembering where they grew up against a

backdrop of the environment on google streetview. The streetview landscape

explores the local area while the person recalls their favorite aspects of their

neighbourhood and where they grew up. The video is watched in a window

frame within the google maps interface. The people talk about what they can

see, how the place has changed (or how different it looks) and what they can

remember.

The Last Day of TV

A series of 5 boxes that contain 5 videos that together make up a bootleg

recording of the last day of analogue broadcasting in London, UK. Each

box has a different UK national channel logo on the cover and each video is

labeled with the date and time information of each recording. The boxes are

in gray tone with white lettering on the case and black on each individual vhs

sleeve. Each video case contains an image of a television tower overlayed

with 5 circles that represent an analogue broadcast signal.

Evil media by Mathew Fuller and Andrew Geoffrey

Graham Harwood and Matthew Fuller launched his new book “Evil Media’ with Graham Harwood presenting Yoha’s new work “Evil media distribution centre’ at The New Institute, Rotterdam. 12/9/2013

Evil Media is a presentation of how power maintained and mediated through our relationship with objects and systems. Because I have yet to read the book I will describe my understanding of Evil Media through Yohas indexing of ‘evil media objects’. Yoha present submitted objects that have been categorised as Evil with a brief description on a clipboard (clipboard being one of the indexed objects) in their ‘Evil Media Distribution Centre’. What is being communicated is that the very construction of these objects systematically induce evil properties and maintain power. Simon Pope submits a temporary steel fence, a robotic hover that contains the same motherboard as a drone, and post it notes that manage the individual with half thoughts and soft commands.

The train of thought is a response to the automation of modern society, through data sets and computer algorithms that maintain a systematic influence over our lives. The computational analysis of interplay between user and object is where this evil can be exposed. For example Graham presents the corner of a container as an evil medium, because with all four corners crates can be stacked and shipped in our globalised trading economy. This reading of media is computational in its analysis of function, command and outcome. It’s a reading of the world through a programming methodology, a breakdown of the systematic infrastructure to components that within the interplay between design and interaction become evil media.

Harwood shows particular interest into time management lifestyle programs that we have adapted in the information age. The reliance of technology to organise our constantly connected existence has created an automated experience of our day-to-day lives. Planners, diary entries, work flow charts; to do lists all create a flow of action that is designed by computer systems. The very obvious alteration that these systems have on our lives has highlighted the influence of other mediated objects that can be categorised as ‘Evil Media’.