User:Michaela/DRAFT latest

Tentative Title

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Introduction

• key words/ domain of interests:

- erase traces //

- public space

- online - offline media

- virtual-physical space

- participatory (including the "users")

- an alternative media

- the observer (the spectator)

- action-reaction

- site specific / situation specific //

Brief Description

Etimilogically the word ërase” depicts from c.1600, from Latin erasus, past participle of eradere "scrape out, scrape off, shave," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + radere "to scrape" (see raze).

• remove all traces of; destroy or obliterate:
  
• remove recorded material from (a magnetic tape or medium); delete (data) from a computer’s memory.
  

What is the anthropological implementation of traces ? In my research will engage with poetic rater formalism way to look at the traces in broad cultural and social aspect. How do we leave a trace of an online presence and the (im)possibility to erase the digital footprint? The act of collecting, preserving and sampling the leftovers, dumped into the digital trash can. Can I make them visible ? Therefore in the research-thesis I will focus on artistic practices and methods of rather metaphorical and poetical treatment/ language on the subject of traces, depicted from my interest tracking, collecting and preserving traces of data, that accumulate, appear, disappear or remain present.

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• Project_1

Description:
Urban_poetry on traces is a text - poetry alike html page and printed stickers. The text is constructed and inspired by "The faceless project voiceOver". I extracted ten sentences where the word trace/ traces is repeated. Thus I recombined them in a text and images, which serves as a visual poem. The language of the whole text assembles a play, with a loose narrative. The dominance of the abstract rather philosophical interpretation of 'traces of data', 'New Machine', 'Current time' and 'Perfect present' draw metaphor of dense theme about surveillance.
I designed stickers and web page where I placed the text and the visuals. I will place the stickers in various of places around the city. there is the url of the page with the following line saying:"city_poetry: reveal the full txt on:"url"_of the project"
I will find other texts/ poetry on traces_/ data_traces and by remixing, recombining I will extend my dictionary.
I would like to expand the project and to enable users to write/ edit and remix the text source.
references&inspirations: Oulipo & Faceless Voice over
urban_poetry <traces>

• project_2
  

explore the data out of the box I will collect used hard drives - memory storage and try to restore the data, which has been capsulated inside.

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Space/ Participation/ Audience

Description of previous projects:

• "Urban planting" is a situation specific small intervention in public space.
  

I took a plant, a common interior feature, and placed it out of its context at the Rotterdam Centraal metro station. I intentionally positioned it in the middle of the sidewalk where it frequently became an object of illumination by numerous fluorescent lights and CCTV cameras. I found myself and my nondescript form of intervention in the spotlight: overexposed, monitored and investigated. Series of photos with the exact time slots document the immediate authority's appearance and response to the intervention.

• CQ7_Creative Ability test ( together with Nicole)

This project was developed within the framework of ìCreative Industriesî thematic seminar. CQ7 Creative Ability test is an interactive installation providing a service which allows the users to test their creativity through a series of questions. The questions and answers depict from various sources. The user physically placing himself/ herself or selecting the chosen answer which eventually gives him/her a final creativity rating.
Ultimately the participants are colored and numerically ranked in individual code not based on their answers but instead randomly generated. However most users see it as a serious assessment and even as an exam of their creativity.

• Both Urban planting and the CQ_7 are project developed in the context of certain themes and inspired by various of texts and personal observations.

The projects took place in public space and they both tried to evolve active participation/ response from the audience.
The physical space and the experience are playing crucial role. This allows the audience to reflect and affect to the final outcome and provides immediate feedback and open possibilities for a dialog.
In my graduation work I would like to engage the viewers with the possibility to take part in the actual work.

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Relation to a larger context

Situationist International and Apsolutno collective ( the creation of sites and situation, reflecting upon or response to the emerging the cultural, historical and political changes / shaping the urban cities. Situationist movement introduced the term “derive” or wondering around the city - as a form of urban voyage. “'Taking absolutely real facts as a starting point for our interventions, we turned the familiar usual, or even marginal, which is often no longer perceived, into something unusual, out of ordinary, and worth further exploration. Apsolute group

Practical steps

Throughhoot small prototypes and practical assingments I will:

• elaborate more on traces/ _erasing traces
• go through the listed literature, getting to know the body of work dealing with interventions, representang the idea of ' traces', online and offline practices, which reflect upon time, media, space and code, positioning myself within a larger context.
• find a space/places for manipulation/interventions in the public domain.
• explore different ways to "intervene with the system

References

A list of references (Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed. These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.) As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the Harvard method.) See: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/A_Guide_to_Essay_Writing#The_Harvard_System_of_referencing Feel free to include any visual material to substantiate, illustrate or elucidate your proposal. For example use images to reference your work or that of others.

• The Situationists International Guy Debord
• The Absolute report. Springerin. Apsolutno and Revolver

(time/ space/ code/memory)

• Lipstick traces. Greil Marcus
• Faceless project.
• Unpleasant design
• The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now (Boris Groys)