Jetha's Graduation Project

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Week 9 – Refined Idea & Literature Review Structure

SMART goals for this week

  • Literature Review and Introduction
    • Finish structure
    • Bullet point
    • Gather list of citations needed
  • Start design process
    • Have a first iteration of the piece by the end of the week

What I did this week

Couple of days after my supervisor meeting my laptop and phone decided to break at the same time so I didn’t do as much work as I had planned to do this week.

Supervisor Meeting Notes

Project considerations

  • 15 minute city
  • retrace
    • Took photos around the world. location, data time, colour influences design of jacket
  • Diegetic prototype
    • Linear interface
    • How would different people in society interact with it
  • Jewish Museum Berlin
    • Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves) by Menashe Kadishman

Thesis Questions

  • focus on one subset of the movement
  • consider the approach for the argument
    • hard to define movement without looking at the previous and hard to put something into a movement.
  • Back up decisions with reasons
  • Planning
    • See using them
    • Refer to them
    • Reflection on the GANTT chart

Exploring ideas

1 Mail, message, folders etc all lined up for you, You can jump between these different things

2 While we plan our physical spaces in a certain way for example schools being close to residential areas etc. The digital version of our buildings (clothes store, grocery store, hospital) all exist in the same area you don’t have to travel to get from place to another. You can have 3 different tabs open zara, sainsburys, call with doctor

3 Is this how we lose our sense of time in the digital space? because we don’t have to travel a distance it feels like everything is done so quickly. (Look into humans and productivity is it important that we are always doing something? Time and mental health?)

4 instagram is a grid format you could 5 posts about each day of your holiday. Friends can jump between the different days look at them in a different order as opposed to listening to you tell the story in a particular order

5a linear internet

MOSCOW Prioritisation

There was something off with the ideas I was coming up with. Which I have now realised is because I have drifted from wanting the audience to realise that the way a computer is designed in its function influences how we perceive reality and how it can change their behaviour. So, I used MOSCOW to help make sure I keep to that

  • Must have: Show spatialisation computer designs effect on human perception of time
  • Should have: Use a new skill I have to learn and an old skill I want to develop
  • Could have: A comparison of the current design and a potential design
  • Won’t have: a simulation won’t have time to make a simulation that would work for a variety of people

This has really helped me organise and make my thinking clearer.

Visualising the foundation of my idea

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Week 8 – Experimentation

Changed the structure of these blog posts so I can talk about goals for this week with supervisor

By March 15th need to be clear on what you’re doing including whether you can learn a new skill in time etc.

Goals for this week

  • Finish with The Language of New Media
  • Start experimenting with specific ideas that come up from the reading
  • Start recording references
  • Make Project Plan

What I did this week

Supervisor Meeting Notes

Project considerations

  • Marshall Mcluhan the medium in the message. Media theorists. Understanding media. The medium is the massage
  • David Carson Postmodernist graphic design
    • Massimo Vignelli
  • Skeumorphism
  • Creating something jarring
    • physically morphing clay with digital outputs
    • digital interface onto physical interface
  • Challenge will be creating a narrative that is smooth and linear
  • relevancy
    • creating a story behind it
    • This particular issue
    • relatable starting point
    • technofeudalism callback at the end

Understanding Postmodernism

I’ve understood that postmodernism is a rejection of modernism which focuses on simplicity and usefulness. I searched for postmodernism computing and came across a talk from Larry Wall about Pearl and its connection to postmodernism.

I think in order to refine the idea and start playing around with the idea is to define these to use as a framework and guideline

  • What is postmodernism
  • What is modernism
  • What is spatialisation

Experimentation

After looking at Perl I realised that I wanted my piece to be understood by a non tech savvy audience. Perl isn’t a commonly used language amongst coders so, it’s less likely to be known by non coders.

I booked out a projector and have been learning to use MadMapper.

First time projection mapping
projecting photontide image on radiator

What aspect of spatialisation do I want to show?

  • Daily life comparison
    • Show how we think about time linearly but we display time spatially on computers
      • We wake up, go to the bathroom, eat, shower, check mail routine
      • Mail, message, folders etc all lined up for you, You can jump between these different things
    • While we plan our physical spaces in a certain way for example schools being close to residential areas etc. The digital version of our buildings (clothes store, grocery store, hospital) all exist in the same area you don’t have to travel to get from place to another. You can have 3 different tabs open zara, sainsburys, call with doctor
      • Is this how we lose our sense of time in the digital space? because we don’t have to travel a distance it feels like everything is done so quickly. (Look into humans and productivity is it important that we are always doing something? Time and mental health?)
      • Could you create an interface that has that injection of distance and travel.
      • What would a linear computer look like?
  • Media specific
    • instagram is a grid format you could 5 posts about each day of your holiday. Friends can jump between the different days look at them in a different order as opposed to listening to you tell the story in a particular order
      • Linear thinking with a spatial interface. Everything is laid out in front of us all the time. With linear thinking there will always be the next thing.
    • Wikipedia you can jump through the web page find the specific thing and jump elsewhere.
    • Drawing depending on medium you can’t erase what you do but digitally you can jump between layers adjust something you did it at the beginning of the piece right at the end
  • Our strong tie to technology is through media. Media will morph to the new technology. Are computers different? computers are a flexible technology we could use computers in a different way to how we do now. Is optimisation and simplicity the best way to design is this a modernistic view that postmodernism rejects? Odd contrast of computers being designed spatially not linearly which is a postmodernist effect but we want to make things as simple and optimised which is modernist view. Oxymoron?
  • Different parts of life to look at spatialisation to see the digital version of it
    • Geography, urban planning
    • Sociology, social structures
    • Philosophy
    • Time, History
    • Economics
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Week 7 – The Idea and Supervisor Meeting

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.