Zalán Szakács/assessment 2nd Trimester

WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Reader

• Understanding feminism
• Doing a gender balanced research
• Creating a gender neutral reader
• Research about shadow libraries
• Research into female typedesigners

Software

• Learning the commands and usage of them in Terminal
• OCR and tesseract
• Python3
• NLTK
• DrawBot

Writing

• Reading and reflecting on them through a essay
• Harvard citation
• Comparative essay

WHAT HAVE I LEARNED?

• Basics into Terminal/Python3/DrawBot
  • Not to take too many side projects next school, because this will affect my focus
  • Having more discipline to learn coding (still need to catch up a few more things)
  • To learn coding needs time, focus and ambition
  • Learn to ask the right questions regarding debugging
  • Keeping track of the code notes
  • Organising the files in the computer (easier to find later on them)
  • Try to be always present at the programming classes or if not try to catch up the material and do your homework

• Reader
  • What is a reader
  • How to use zotero
  • How to do a gender neutral research
  • What is feminism
  • Where to find female typedesigners and their fonts
  • How to design a book with only text and make this exciting to read

• Writing
  • How to read and understand an academic text
  • How to do Harvard citation
  • How to structure an essay
  • How to write an comparative essay

• Concept
  • Stay sharp and critical during the conceptual phase
  • Don't try to combine to many things at the same during the concept – focus only on one strong aspect

WHAT DID I ACHIEVED FROM MY 1ST TRIMESTER WISHLIST?

• learned the basics of Python (the way of thinking in code)
• trained my research skills
• trained my writing skills
• found also ways how to connect with my work (Python – DrawBot, Python – Cinema4D, Python – Blender)

WHERE DO I WANT TO GO?

• Developing a digital decoding system (phone AR app?)
• Investigating a research into steganography and creating a project with Python and DrawBot
• learning more how to think in code and realise my ideas
• developing further my Python3 skills
• diving into Python – DrawBot, Python – Cinema4D, Python – Blender
• diving into Openframes
• learning more about Wiki (+styling of it)
• open shaders
• vvvv
• open GL
• pure data
• p5.js

WHY?

• graduation project next year → live generated 3D environments ↔ audiovisualisation
• A – Z → founding a studio in collaboration with Alex Roidl – collaborative and hybrid practice in borders of new technologies and visual culture
  • the studio should have two foundations:
    • visual culture (graphic design, art direction, motion design, visual identity, website, 3D animation)
    • digital culture (design research, creative coding, light - space installations, audiovisual performances)