Feb 23::
Before Class:
Read
- Catch up on all readings to date.
- Review feb 16th source code
- Database as Symbolic Form
Do
- 1) Write a blog post and consider how the three artworks we've looked at in class (d-tower, Conversation Map, and Listening Post) reflect certain ideas we have about information, networks and context. How does each project gather and reflect information? What is the information about? Is context considered, and how? What demographics are considered? How do these works compare with one another? Use at least two readings in a significant way to consider or back up your assertions.
- 2) Visualize the digital communications you observed and recorded during your 72 hour time block. Use your written observations of patterns as a starting point; what is interesting to you about your observations? How can you represent and visualize what interests you? You might start with one platform or type of media, or one context like location or mood, and build from there. Consider creating icons for the messages that travel between sender and receiver, or state changes for sender and receiver based on the exchanges. If there is reciprocality, the message may mutate and change states as receiver becomes sender. You may use any design environment you are comfortable in, but keep in mind we may like to implement our designs in Processing at some point. You can approach these visualizations as mockups -- to be further elaborated upon in the next couple of weeks. Zip up files and label A1b_lastname_firstname.zip
In class:
Discuss
- the connections between art, science, research and technology. the archive. walid raad and the atlas group. data and database art. how art and research inform one another.
- Prezi notes
Studio time
- feb 23rd source code
- Continue with A1.