Essay Swop
A mind map of my essay for Culture Industries to be discussed in class:
Interaction: Body, Space, Technology and Politics in the work of Shu Lea Cheang
Archive for the ‘Exercises’ Category
Themes and areas of interest for minor and/or major project
I would like to explore the possibilities for producing a system that allows for ‘genuine’ or rather open-ended interactivity (that allows for disturbance and unintended consequences) in combination with a dynamic data visualization. The emphasis would however be on meaningfulness for the user, any user. In other words, the project would center around a public [...]
Datajam 06 Dec 09 Living Memories
Datajam intervention: Sunday 6th December 2009
Indian princess Savitri was a woman of great beauty, who chose to marry Satyawan, prince in exile who was living in the forest. The court astrologers tried to stop her when the prince’s lifeline showed that he would die within a year. Savitri however would not step back: she married [...]
A Free Media Tool: Night Tag
This week’s exercise was to create a free media tool. Not familiar? Read the charter here:
Free Media Charter
INTRODUCTION
The large cities in the world are seas of light driven by consumer culture. Squares, bridges, monuments and tall buildings are illuminated by street lanterns, large screens, overly lit advertising, abundant christmas lights, traffic, and so on. These [...]
Free Media II: Friendly Notes
INTRODUCTION
Parallel to my idea of the Night Tag I developed another idea, which utilizes the ’secret carriers’ that allow you to check banknotes for authenticity. One of the security features is the UV feature:
Ultra-violet feature - if you put a £10 note under a good quality ultra-violet light (one that emits light at around 365 [...]
Defamiliarization IV: NYX
Sleeping and waking as media ecology
Inspired by McLuhan, Neil Postman founded the Program in Media Ecology at New York University in 1971. As he described it: “Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances [...]
Defamiliarization III: Aimless walk
*This text is written collaboration with the entire group*
After seeing the first Oyster travel log, we decided that using the travel log to create something ‘aimless’ was too limited. We then came up with the idea of using people’s missed connections as a starting point. We found a website called Love on the Line in [...]
Aimless walk: the documentation
15 October 2009 10:15am
N 51.49538 W 0.14484
Meeting at Victoria Rail Station, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
First set of directions:
Man seeking Woman | Victoria line, London, UK | from admmir6 |
We hit it off when we got stuck between Victoria and Oxford Circus this afternoon. I never got your name, but told you mine - Charlie. You said [...]
Project planning exercise
This exercise is to make us think about how to plan a project. I chose to make a pretend planning for Vincent van Uffelen’s Urban Parasites project. The scope of this project is using technology in urban space, making way for different forms of creative expression in the city:
“The city; already filled with and shaped [...]
Defamiliarization II: Perl
This week’s assignment was either to make the ‘Hello World’ command to work in Perl and document the relevance of this exercise, which is used in most handbooks on programming languages. The second option was to ‘translate’ last week’s product (the command line in Unix) to a script in Perl. The first exercise proved to [...]
Defamiliarization I: Unix
In doing this exercise I wanted to play with concepts of online identities, privacy and self-disclosure. Many people will have googled their own names at some point and may have found that a lot of their personal information, contact details and maybe photos or online contributions have crept into the online realm over time. Often [...]