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I | Over the next few months I intend to develop an interactive "platform" ( a website seems to be the easiest solution, yet still unsatisfactory) where users would be able/obliged to engage in some party funny, partly absurd but mostly oppressive conversation with their devices. In order to reach this final stage of the project I am recently researching ideological and technical aspects of the suitable code creation. The nature of the code that I have in mind could be characterised by unbearably hesitant, unproductive, subjective and most probably alcoholic traits...or at least a quasi-marxist nature. All my intellectual effort is going to be conducted in order to investigate the idea of productivity and unproductivity in the context of western/ innovative/ neoliberal society. After Trebor Scholz, I wish to state that it is impossible to differentiate cleanly between nonproductive leisure activity existing within the sphere of play and productive activity existing within the field of the workplace. I am planning to approach this theme from various angles: economic, semiotic, moral and fatalistically existential. | ||
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All of the tutors seem to be quite competent, therefor I promise to book tutorials and ask members of staff questions related specifically to my project. I also promise to share knowledge with your peers. | |||
I promise to book tutorials and ask members of staff questions related specifically to my project. I also promise to share knowledge with your peers. | |||
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In my previous (and present, I believe) art practice I investigate the mechanisms of regular communications that, under the pretense of functionality or entertainment, conceal the order of power created during the constitution of such mechanisms. I am particularly interested in the nonviolent and discreet mode of system's operation that slowly yet consistently makes collectively cultivated semantic structures unattainable and often discriminative for their own users. I am attracted to the idea that all, even these purely mundane or utilitarian pieces of communication might be understood as a code. I assume that all of these semantic structures betray the variety of activates, identities, and social realities we are woven into as regular users; they also carry significant traces of socio-political codes and hidden ideologies that had been dissolved among everyday usage of these codes. Universally recognised as objective, independent, and purely utilitarian pieces of communication invite us to participate in fragmented social reality but at the same time, they put to sleep the awareness of multiplicity of identities they prescribe us and blurry the political responsibility for its usage. | |||
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Eighteenth Project Outline
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What do you want your first project to be?
Over the next few months I intend to develop an interactive "platform" ( a website seems to be the easiest solution, yet still unsatisfactory) where users would be able/obliged to engage in some party funny, partly absurd but mostly oppressive conversation with their devices. In order to reach this final stage of the project I am recently researching ideological and technical aspects of the suitable code creation. The nature of the code that I have in mind could be characterised by unbearably hesitant, unproductive, subjective and most probably alcoholic traits...or at least a quasi-marxist nature. All my intellectual effort is going to be conducted in order to investigate the idea of productivity and unproductivity in the context of western/ innovative/ neoliberal society. After Trebor Scholz, I wish to state that it is impossible to differentiate cleanly between nonproductive leisure activity existing within the sphere of play and productive activity existing within the field of the workplace. I am planning to approach this theme from various angles: economic, semiotic, moral and fatalistically existential.
How do you plan to make it?
In order to develop a double-meaning chatting system (productive at the surface but resistant underneath)I am planing to follow the conceptual schema mentioned below:
- Western neoliberal society= the Solitaire Card Games on your desktop
- Innovative society=squeezing the surplus form the trash, pop, and stupor
- Cognitive surplus=smoking but not inhaling
- Coercive laws of completion=the biggest chocolate cake on your Facebook wall
- Code= naturalisation and fragmentation of ideology
- Code = barriers of ideology
- Ideology= set of user-(un)friendly values
- Ideology= a military entertainment / PLAYBOR
- Playbor=fun factory for an intellectually unemployed, freed teddy bear
- Teddy bear=no-collar tiger!
- Code=FUN FACTORY, CHARCH, SUPERMARKET
- Technology= fantasy and terror of NON WORKING >Time management
- Moments=element$ of profit
- Code =ahistorical map of meaning
- Code =apparently transparent & neutral value generator
- Code=denial of death/negation of an animal spirit
- User=product=commodity = bearer of value
- User in motion=temporality of value
- Value = useful, wanted, desirable schizophrenia
- Symbolic x value = x passed in the process of user exchange
- x = a hot potato
- Symbolic zero value =empty floating signifier
- Communication=the release of prisoners (parole)
Why?
I want to play with the idea of (un)productivity due to some serious personal problems. I myself am sadly stricken with anxiety of participating in the value production system I do not quite understand.
Who can help and how?
All of the tutors seem to be quite competent, therefor I promise to book tutorials and ask members of staff questions related specifically to my project. I also promise to share knowledge with your peers.
What are you working on now?
Re-configuring my brain and composing some unholy algorithms
Relation to previous practice
In my previous (and present, I believe) art practice I investigate the mechanisms of regular communications that, under the pretense of functionality or entertainment, conceal the order of power created during the constitution of such mechanisms. I am particularly interested in the nonviolent and discreet mode of system's operation that slowly yet consistently makes collectively cultivated semantic structures unattainable and often discriminative for their own users. I am attracted to the idea that all, even these purely mundane or utilitarian pieces of communication might be understood as a code. I assume that all of these semantic structures betray the variety of activates, identities, and social realities we are woven into as regular users; they also carry significant traces of socio-political codes and hidden ideologies that had been dissolved among everyday usage of these codes. Universally recognised as objective, independent, and purely utilitarian pieces of communication invite us to participate in fragmented social reality but at the same time, they put to sleep the awareness of multiplicity of identities they prescribe us and blurry the political responsibility for its usage.
Showing an awareness of a broader context
References
http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/A_Guide_to_Essay_Writing#The_Harvard_System_of_referencing
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