Silvie-project proposal

1 What do you want to make?

starting from the notion of water memory I want to make a digital environment, a navigable collage, that visualises this memory. What has the sea seen and what will it be seeing / covering in the near future? The web page will in that sense be rhizomatic, not without an origin but with a variety of different pathways opening up.

2 How do you plan to make it?

I am currently teaching myself HTML, CSS and Javascript in order to give myself the tools to in fact build an environment like this. I am not yet sure about how I want to be hosting this website.

4 Why do you want to make it?

Because I think this memory, which sunken to the bottom of the sea, is sometimes forgotten or obscured, is actually a very illuminating to bring back to the surface - even if thats an interface.

Additionally, I wanted to exit this school with a very concrete new skill. Coding has been something which I have taught myself a little over the course of last year. I think I wanted to foreground it for the thesis as a way to challenge myself.

5 Who can help you and how?

I think it would perhaps be useful to have some help from a tutor that has some experience with coding - the technical side of things.

6 Relation to previous practice

This project is closely related in terms of content to the radio show I have been working on over the last few months. I am currently working on a Radio show. For each episode this radio show takes a different location in Rotterdam as its locus. The show engages through the lens of Rotterdam with the historical past of The Netherlands, especially as Rotterdam as the port city plays and has played quite a fundamental role in the relationship of The Netherlands with water.

I have a practice of making collages. This would seem to be a new way of approaching that. In this format I could animate the collages and make them tell stories in a different way. The fact that different elements of the collage can be hyperlinked and hover triggered I find interesting and would like to explore.

8 References/bibliography

Tabita Rezaire - Deep Down Tidal (2017)