User:Lor.ensō/Lorenzo's Projects that May/Mayn't
XPUB 2 GRADUATION RESEARCH SEMINAR
RENDERDAM_[YEAR].FORMAT
What?
A visual essay based on an inner/outer mono or dialogue I'm currently having considering the rendered imagery of Rotterdam used in both (simulator) games and future architectural concepts of Rotterdam.
Why?
I'm in confusion by the idea of vision / images of the city through virtual representation. Mostly, because I feel that is an image that lacks multiple layers of complex contexts:
Accessibility(concerning disability)
livability (concerning the housing crisis)
affordability(pushing away the inhabitants).
leisureability (queer / underground scenes / festivals / gigs / event)
I don't want it to be a EVERYTHING IS BAD kind of publication, though, more of a concern based... publication?
Workflow (two or three sentences)
Write down thoughts
Search for / collect imagery (make pictures, take screenshots, online posts, journalism) and make compositions..
Timetable
October:
Read up on previously saved sources. Start sketching and writing thoughts down, collecting both sides.
November:
Think about the outcome. start the design and think of it either being a moving image, online or offline zine, a mocksite, etc.
Make a first draft for the first public moment. Maybe trigger a discussion. An anti-campaign. Parody? Satire?
December:
Continue and have something to show / discuss in Gent, to reflect in the project proposal and thesis outline. Have something of a 1,5-2 draft for the break to pick up after the winter break.
Relation to previous practice (two sentences, draw on Text on Practice) In my Bachelors, I made two works pre and during covid in cinema4d
DISABILITY SIMULATOR
What? (two sentences)
A game that mocks the visual representation of virtual environments in Games and City Planning/Branding. The Idea of simulation games cover either daily strife of a certain job or expertise, or a surreal / parody / fantasy driven game.
Why? (two sentences) [old version: How? but very similar to workflow]
In both the promise of new city planning as the concept of a simulator. In games: the person / character is (based on the conception of an) able bodied - I city planning, the mockups always consist of stock footage or 3d rendered.
Workflow (two or three sentences)
The idea is to first think about the gameplay(ux / ui) to use what kind of virtual environments this could take place in. Then pitch to people that work in the same fields of thoughts and others, for the sake of fair use and that doesn't unintentionally becomes a mocking of people with disabilities. And in the end make some sort of beta testing version and present that...?
Timetable
September to December could be an idea, since I am participating in <a href="https://constantvzw.org/site/Open-call-Worksession-a-Cane-Sticky-notes-Another-body.html"> Open call Worksession: a Cane, Sticky notes, Another body d/a> and I could test it then with the audience there. But to be honest this project could be more of a critical meme towards abovementioned projects.
Relation to previous practice (two sentences, draw on Text on Practice)
I made something in Unity years ago based on this
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdNogtlXQz/?img_index=1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKKCYDJ46m/
Choices made (two sentences)
None, yet...
OBSESSIVE CATALOGUE OF MADNESS: SPIRITUAL MEDIA PSYCHOSIS
XPUB 1
Abstractifying the map
Abstractifying the walk as the memory that it is,
a blend of words, lines, colors and shapes
as shape of personal drawing designs rather than monitored landscapes in schematically saved geolocations
This idea is about being your own tracking device. Making your walk into poetic visual rather than a monitored given. It's about looking at your route as a circuit. Would this circuit work? Are there stable connections, or are these broken?
- change your track into a circuit
- note your tracks but without context
- follow the lines of the map but don't save them
- just draw them and symbolize your strolling
The colours you use are based on the coördinates https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/File:WhatsApp_Image_2024-05-15_at_11.32.53_4cd4be77.jpg
Example:
#519167
#692299
#008052
#445580
#906951
#000346
take note: since these coördinates are short 4 numbers, add 2 x 00's
this is your colour spectrum per location
etvwiiln
Dull Pedestrian 3D walk
A walk from my house to PZI in pedestrian mode of 3DRotterdam
Inaccessible Geocaching
Geocache / geoguessr ------ Accessing Location
Limited acces / disability
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/pedestrian-word-history-usage-dull-commonplace
Notes made on 230424 before class:
Latitudes and altitudes
defined by the prime meridian and the equator \
meridian meaning MidDay
Equator -> AeQuator -> circulus Aequator diei etonoctus
Circle equalizing day and night
make equal
equa
Timezones
geopolitics
Will continue this laterrrrrrr
170424
Inner-Troubleshooting
What is it?
The performance of ageism onto older electronics
or
Techno-biased Projection turned into a critical self-reflection
Case in point:
the iiyama screen at my desk is not working because it is too old!!!!!!! >:(
it's a projection on my own prejudgement
Why make it?
A frustration to both my inhabited luxury of having a second screen and finding that 'older machines are nice when they are usable but I have also grown biased to this "newer == better" while that is horse shit not true
Workflow
I see it for me that I would keep track of all the transactions that I inhabited and how these interactions grew into me. More a practice actually.
Timetable*
this is a short-time based project. A self-reflective practice, actually. This exercise can be done in 5-10 minutes.
over the long run it can be practiced with multiple forms of technology
be it the dependence of the droplet-key to enter the front door
Rapid prototype
Why isn't my screen working, old piece of electronic trash
Go stand against the wall! You should be ashamed
oh but maybe... it's not the screen.. let's try another HDMI to USB-C connector*
oh but it is working?!
maybe I should be less dependent than I think I am on these things
this is a bit dramatic but it's funny to be confronted with your own technological habits
Previous practice
The Monster of Albert Heijn
https://lorenzoquint.nl/ah.html
A previous project based on the newness / oldness of electronics in consumer culture and the adaptation of automated grocery shopping. It was based on growing annoyance.
Relation to a wider context
Choices made
This proposal is more a black mirror, how I adapt to these technological differences out of laziness yet also being forced to the new electronic consumerist habits.
Blaming it on a fine working 'older' screen, while a newer connection cable is the actual error in the connection.
I always think about a conversation I had with a stranger at Antwerpen train station about that (2013) in Belgium everything electronic wasn't working because it was too old (check in / out, ATM, public transport) and in NL the same things weren't working because it was just too new.
The work could be a step by step list of showing my own thought pattern through the automated steps.
other examples
Laundry
- I need to do my laundry
- for my laundry I need to upgrade 20 euros on my AppWash app
- for my laundry I need to see through Internet of Things-technology if the washing and/or drying machines
- for my laundry I need to have data on my phone, to check in with €1,50-€2,00
- in order to do my laundry, I need to buy data to pay.
Keyboard connections
for all my 'regular' keyboards to get the '€' I need to ctrl + shift +
on the 'alternative keyboard' I get '¼' or '¤' ((I use blind typing on this keyboard because actually using the system is not really helping))
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(<<Steve has been asked to unpack "Choices made" (here are 2 interpretations):
1) Why is this proposal different from your previous work? Perhaps there was a change of mind along the way. Perhaps you wanted to approach things differently. So, why did you choose to take the proposal in this direction? A change of mind demonstrates that you are thinking critically about your practice. ("choices made" is there to help you unpack your process).
2) You may interpret it as an opportunity to list the procedures you will go through when making the work. Again, these choices are critical (because you chose to do one thing rather than something else:-)
Is this proposal clear?
What can be done to make it clearer?
As a group, identify core texts and references that help with the proposal?
Why is this text necessary
Rapid prototype template
Write one sentence instruction for a work.
Make it.
100424
A project for startup errors.
Things that go too slow for a quick demand. The kind of things that make you want to push force the power button to stop and start over.
Why make it?
To deal with the errors the morning, to beat around the bushes and to be annoyed for no particularly valid reason at all
workflow:
follow this mantra
Timetable
do this on the daily, when you are confused and unsollicitedly force your good intentions on to others, your network needs to grow, the pyramid needs to be filled.
Previous practice
gradproject, step by step obsession
Relation to a wider context
quick fix
Choice made
>be me
>be annoyed
>think about the productivity
>think about the way there 's a business based on this
> make a course
(Please include rapid prototype.)
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/4/47/How_to_seem_like_you_know_what_you_are_doing.jpg
1. you are relaxed
2. too relaxed
3. why are you so slow today
4. start!!!
5. try this exercise
1. weigh your eyelids, brain, shoulders in a homeopathic way
2. nose exhales are not healthy!
1. do not ask what things mean, just accept it or get out of here anyway
3. think for a solution for problem that does not exist
4. if that is not possible, think of a problem for a solution that does not exist
5. if that is not possible, think of huge problems that you could benefit of
6. join a 3-day course to get certified
7. congratulations, you now seem like you know what you are doing
6. at least you know seem like you are on the right path.
7. why are you still reading this, you should know better.
A non-problem solution demanding mantra
Nothing-ing
whazzit
A critique on commodification of anything that is new to another person.
Why make it?
The example of *Niksen* (which means to do nothing), it has been shown sinds 2019 or so as some sort of wellness trend (bbc). Which literally means 'nothing-ing' tHe ArT oF dOiNg NoThInG
_Dolce far niente_ ... _Dolce far niente_ (literally 'sweetness [of] doing nothing, sweet idleness') is an Italian saying.
https://www.flowmagazine.nl/mental-health/de-kunst-van-het-nietsdoen-wat-je-kunt-leren-van-het-italiaanse-dolce-far-niente.html
workflow
Timetable
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Previous practice
'I am Dutch' jk but it's again a bit of a wellness critique with blatant claims profiting on a burnout culture
Relation to a wider context
Profiting on burn-out culture.
Choices made
less is more