User:ThomasW/First Proposal Outline

10.05.2015

1) what have been your current areas of research?

1. “Personal” Digital Archive [1]
2. Over-promises of Cloud Services
3. Video Games – Digital legacy / Specific Games...
4. Creations of digital memory’s and social media
5. Where designers role are and how not to go total mad in [Technocultures, +++
6. The renaissance of paper printing in the digital society
7. The role library have now?

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2) how do you intend to build on them?

1. Look at people gut feelings about data loss by looking at social media
2. What language does cloud services use when they market themselves?
3. How does archive store materials, physical, visit places?
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3) formulate an (im)possible project (or projects) that address 1) and 2)

1. A screen wall that show text from the Internet (social media) with texts from the internet about loss of personal data and the text is being transmitter true old dead hard-drive as audio.
2. An online magazine/site +++ where I ask people to send in their old dead media objects that they cant access no more. They send in there objects with a description on where, why and what they think is on there. The object is photograph, and it get put online (if I can get the content of I show that as well) as a collection.
3. Show a collection of “lets plays” video game footage , video cube where you are in the games. Video walls (screens of different sizes and type)
4. Fake ads for cloud services put in the stress twisting the promises of the cloud (ad busting)
5. Fake websites for cloud services put in the stress twisting the promises of the cloud (ad busting)
6. Use the marketing for cloud services in a new way, to mock them.
7. Never saving “storage solution” that never saves the content but just deletes it
8. Mock online storage solution where content are being mined for data and being sold on a data “stock-market” (not real)
9. Hybrid laser/ink printer where you can print out content from > for offline storage
10. Video-photo-text about the library, record the living and the dead archives