What I did this week
Notebook correlation: Research (Artwork and Media (Neuromancer) – Academic (Lev Manovich))
I picked ‘Digital and Physical World Swap’ out of my options as Monday we had the first graduation project class and we were starting our introductions and research proposals. I picked this one as I found it the easies to explain to other and people and felt confident in what I was talking about. All the options were interesting to me.
I made a notebook for all my research notes and eventually also for design iterations. I want to keep the blog as a space to summarise the week.
Random thoughts I had during class
- Maybe look into a specific spaces like software that’s supposed to make us more “connected “or “easier”. E.g. Spotify, Instagram,
- Short simulations using dark lab or something. Maybe rigging my flat with physical hardware and film the experience.
I have meeting with my supervisor every Monday now so Blog posts will have a Meeting Notes section now.
Supervisor Meeting Notes
Project considerations
- Compare how we live now to pre technology
- So music now with Spotify, iTunes, YoutubeMusic etc compare to pre recording music
- Look at cyberpunk genre and art movement and see how they explore cyberspace
- Make note of the visual language used from this genre
- Look at neuromancer by william gibson
- Use Double Diamond Process
- Currently in the define stage
- Pick 1 experience
- Show the differences in cultures and the internet
- Keywords
- Technological dominance social impact of technology.
Thesis Criteria questions
- Communication objective for art projects: identify key audience impact coming through the work, if you’re looking to make a change in the audience
- Avoid making thesis question a rhetorical question
- Open to interpretation. What kind of differences are there between digital and physical world. and what questions why is more research
- Research proposal is not part of thesis
- Conclusion of the research
- If doing an installation put it all up in dark lab and take pictures and videos.
After looking at artwork I’ve started looking into academic papers. I used Chat GPT to find papers as I struggled to find the correct keywords to find what I wanted.
I found Lev Manovich’s book “The Language of New Media” which talks about the language we use to understand and operate computers. He identifies that we use language from text and cinema as a foundation for how computer interface has been made.
I’ve been quite drawn to the text influence on computers over the cinema influence. I might focus on that aspect of the how the digital space works. Although the part about how the cinematic frame and postmodernism has influenced computer interface is interesting.