Monthly Archives: February 2012

Student Projects::Week 7

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While browsing through the copious amounts of wordpress websites that students of the NMD 206 classes before have created; they seemed repetitive and similar and related like a family–one project stood out to me wholeheartedly.

Derek O’Brien made a website called appicture a day and it calls attention to the specific autobotography project that I made reference too in my lone search to show the class who views my site what autobotography projects I found outside of the classroom. I think appicture a day is a play on words (aperture) and (a picture)–since Brien is doing what he can to make an honorable come back from his injury he looked towards documenting day to day objects and situations as a release and outlet.

The Fantasy Beyond Control

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” Life is a moving target and any object that is isolated becomes history.”

That quote holds more truth in it than people may like to think. Things that are historical and remembered in our brains and records are things that we took time to acknowledge and be sure to take record of it–in comparison to all great things that have occurred but were not documented, recorded, and forgotten.

This piece written by Hershmen was very interesting to me, that she submersed herself in the artistic statement for those to see and understand what message she was trying to get across. The strength and courage put into subversive artistic creations is admirable and overlooked by many. I’m glad that Joline has asked us to read into this ladies accomplishments and take notice of what she has done.

Lessons Learned: Approach

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The approach for this would be a visual representation of events that the user can recall. Events will then be categorized and interpreted by the program to create a profile for the user to determine what characteristics, qualities, lessons the person may have drawn or pulled for said event.

 

I am specifically fond of the twister styled or declining swirling ribbon view of the timeline; having oldest events in the smaller bottom and then as the memories become more recent the ribbon becomes wider–> this way you are able to constantly rewind and add on for as long as you wish to have the Lessons Learned application applied to your life.

Lessons Learned

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My Autobotography intent is something inspired by all of the events that I’ve experienced in my lifetime and my belief that everyone has a story behind who they are and people pull certain characteristics and experiences from impacting moments; its all how you view the situation.

My intent with the Lessons Learned application is that the user would depict major events that have occurred to them over the span of their lifetime, whether or not the situations be positive or negative–and with each even that occurs to the user a series of descriptive words, lessons and values are pulled and placed into this persons profile. The community that is created with these profiles connects you to people who have experienced around 90% of the same things you have so that you can see how different people handle the same situation and find a common ground or help each other.

 

It’s also an intriguing idea to see what has happened to people to make them who they are today. You should never judge someone untill you know why they are the way they are.

 

 

Chapter 4::Edge of Art

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Political Design: Hacktivism, Hacking Captialism, Hacking Legal Code, Hacktivist Art Accountability, Bringing Biotech Down to Earth, Outing the Old Boys Network, Non Geographic Nation, Executable Literature, Cyber Squatting on A Corporate Domain,  De commercializing the Art World, Publicizing the Private Web, Creative Cloning, Corporate Takeover.

 

This chapter really incorporates all of the main topics that we covered while going over Hacktivism in class discussion during the first month of this Spring semester.

Hacking Capitalism & Legal Code definitely represents the connection that hackers and people who are electronically savvy enough to represent movements and thoughts online implement and affect the legal system and those who are involved in making important decisions that affect the mass groups of people. There are many projects that have been implemented to improve appearances and political parties while other projects are souly to represent the word of the people and what they wish to achieve and have heard.

Hacking Legal Code, Hacktivist Art Accountability: The way that people can get their points across and and instate laws that dictate how we surf the web and what we’re allowed to view. Hacktivist movements like SOPA and PIPA where people join forces online and to prove that as a whole people who are feeling the same way about topics and decisions that affect our day-to-day lives is an incredible poewr to have. Art accountability digitally means that these people who want to represent their abilities of programming and graphic design online and to be represented so that people can give notice and credit to the message that is trying to be portrayed.

Non Geographic Nation: People can communicate easily on a global scale within seconds compared to physical letters and mail which means that if a mass amount of people want to deliver a meaningful desire or message it can be received and understood and acted upon within  moments. this helps also to develope deeper relationships over great periods of times to stay connected and have a form of communication.

 

Theatre of the Oppressed

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This article reviews the different forms of theater and how the audience is given the option of not only viewing but having a voice or opinion to offer to the people involved.

 

It changes the age old rules applied to theatre of one stage to many people, It’s changed so that there is implimentation from both sides to affect the outcome or decision that is made by the people involved in the play.

There are different degrees that are applied to these rules of the theater of the oppressed and it was very enlightening to see the different views and directions that a production and storyline can be viewed in comparison to an in stone script and storyline.

the yes men fix the world

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representational art: represent something and it has meaning.

  • Execute
  • Act/Do Something

 

1-many change to many to many

 

The yes Men Fix the World:

How do you justify compensating suffering people from an industrial tragedy with JUST under 1000$?

“I found it refreshing”à the golden skeleton in the closet. It’s unbelievable to me that people who are making money and running their “dream” businesses are saying that if a few bodies are at cost to make them a couple dimes then it is all worth it in the end.

Unintended harm was brought to the people of Bhopal as they were rewarded and then robbed of 12 billion.

“Starving would become the new black”

Class Notes 1/17

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The yes men fix the world

 

Economy and control over the market control what corporate wants:

 

 

The perspective of this cartoonist is pointing out that the cartoon represents that all ideas together do not work or correspond.

The perspective of the man business cartoon saying that he is at first conservative and then switches into a more exploitative point of how he got what he wanted.

Healthy plantations: genocide of the people who were there (the trail of tears) bought slaves who were violently taken from home lands to get the work so that the money could be given to the white man and slave owner.

Comparable to the “Golden Skeleton”—if it works for me in the end that’s all that matters.

Colbert: Neutral Man’s Burden—I have to think about people in my own family who face discrimination as being white.

Being “neutral”—

Roomie Connection:

  • House setting
  • Calendar
  • Draconian policy: have a voice and if you don’t show up you don’t get to decide.
  • Use it or lose it
  • Ways of understanding why this is necessary
  • List off ways of transportation/times/ways of getting there
  • Not functional mock up of what it would look like and how it functions.

February 7, 2012

Wearable clothing/computers.

“the wear cam is a mechanism of self determination and personal safety”

‘safety net”

­Foucault (pronounced fooco)

One way power source directed towards placing own power on other people

  • Lives were placed at the hands of kings
  • Totalitarian System to keep people enslaved and people empowered
  • Limiting and crippling information to know what your doing

Consenting by default

JenniCam—first online personality that broadcasted life.

Class Notes 1/12/12

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Altaire

Quotes a­nd provoked thoughts from Hacktivism

Altaire-people were making  computers and they were not the size of a house.

People joined together to make their own computers without the “okay go ahead” from a business man or big head.

Joline- “what these people were doing with computers was playful…not as big of a deal as people were making it out to be”

A law defines what theft is and what it isn’t. if you come and take land it’s not theft (development of America) and it’s a cultural invention that dictates where material things and ideas belong for the owners well benefit.                  (most laws protect private property)

Hobby computer was quickly turned into a mass produced computer. The output of a couple hundred dollars and getting an order for 50k and then turned out making half a bill a year.

WARGAMES

I’m wondering why these illegal things were documented on their own times

Revolutionary moments  right now

How did the world become afraid of hackers?

Media

News journalist

Everyone has provoked fear to control the people

People realize that business can benefit from these internet websites and with usernames and purchases being made online

Imagine this: a structure that is really non hierarchical and is structured by different principles.

Lessons Learned

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Growing up each individual experiences different events and is placed in different situations that subconsciously forms the people that we are today. What the idea of my autobotography website would be is something along the lines of a self made time line, as far back as the individual can remember. With each major event that is called to attention a set of characteristics and lessons will be assigned to the person after the experience takes place; Break ups, Deaths, Successes, Problems to be solved, etc… these all shape who we are. It would be interesting to see what events people had in common and to pin point what corks about you came to be and from which event things all started.

Plastic Surgery Art/Cyborg Manifesto

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jul/01/orlan-performance-artist-carnal-art

 

I believe that her views on exhibitionist art is completely taboo and out of the box. That’s why I think it’s totally acceptable. If those are the mediums that she has chosen to get her point and message across to her desired demographic than so be it; that’s her decision. The pain and courage she experiences during the active performances is admirable and unbelievable. I can’t believe some of the things she experiences just to have something acted out or happen the correct way.

 

She takes the materials that God gave her with her body and the people she knows and the surroundings she is placed in to create whatever comes to her mind; it is brilliant.

HOTEL

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One of the most unsettling, discouraging and confusing videos I’ve been asked to watch while going to school here. I’m very lost as to what this video represents and if the emotions that I experienced watching it is what the creator intended.

 

The idea that he is portraying of the power that women possess over men and how it threatens them to the point where they have to take action was a point that I pulled from the video.

I also pulled that Doctors are trusted and take orders from a higher up even if they’re second guessing a situation.

 

Perhaps my theories are incorrect, but these are the initial thoughts that came to me while viewing.

Autobotography–found

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http://www.macworld.com/article/158680/2011/03/everyday_iphone_project_365.html

 

The idea to have an honest documentation of your physical appearance day after day for at least a year is an intriguing thought. To take a step further I developed a deeper idea for my own autobotography intent which can be seen in the appropriate post.

Wear Cam and Shooting Back

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While being in class discussion this past week we were exposed to the idea of “shooting back” and the logistics of being exposed to cameras in corporate and business situations, it ended up being a question that was on my mind for the rest of the day, when I went to the groceries store, when I got my gas, and when I was in school.

There are multiple laws and regulations limiting the use of cameras in a public setting by civilians but we have no say in the big man using cameras to make sure that we are playing the game by their rules. An intriguing thought when you put it in terms like that. While many of us are just living our day-to-day lives to get by while they’re watching it through cameras like a reality television show. Perhaps that is why reality shows are so entertaining; it gives the viewer a false feeling of being the big man.

Autobotography Chapter 3

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Edge of Art:

 

this whole idea of being represented digitally and with an online blog isn’t a new concept. However, the directions and views that people are taking to approach these digital outlets is constantly improving and becoming more interesting and different to try and pull more attention in their direction as apposed to following the same digital representational trends of the past.

Blogging is an age old journal that is socially recognized and accepted at this point; How/What you blog about is what really sets you apart from the millions of other blogs that are on the market to be viewed.

The interest factor is definitely key in the sense of the demographic that you want to target, the emotion that you want to portray is easily translated with the topics you choose.

Camera Shy

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“Camera/Shy is the only steganographic tool that automatically scans for and delivers decrypted content straight from the Web. It is a stand-alone, Internet Explorer-based browser that leaves no trace on the user’s system and has enhanced security. ”

 

This would easily be utilized by people trying to make a presence online and doesn’t want to be trace, by how I interpret this description.

youtube to mp3

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http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

 

allows users to paste youtube links and withdraw the digital file to save the song that it plays. I’m interested to see how much longer this is going to be up for because so many people utilize it to withdraw music from the legal online site of Youtube.

Long distance connector

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Being in a long distance relationship myself, I know the ins and outs of the difficulties couples in this situation have to face; if only there was a solution to the small trials and hurdles that we have to face in a day-to-day situation.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, true–however; the points that lead up to the strength people must have to support that growing heart is difficult to obtain. I would be interested in creating an app that makes leaving messages and gestures technically to show reassurance to the opposite partner giving them positive reinforcement to know that the partner is thinking of them and missing them.

ALS Community

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A community for people who are affiliated with people in the ALS community who either have family members diagnosed with the disease or have experiences that they can share with others who are dealing with it currently. The disease is such that it is so different with each case there is no one way to fix the same problem the same way for ever person; bathroom solutions, cleaning habits, eating, drinking, etc…

Since my father was diagnosed with ALS when I was a sophomore in High School, I have seen the ins and outs of this disease and have experienced first hand what it is like to adapt for the person with ALS and perceive what habits they have to change in order to survive and be happy with whatever living conditions they can. The app that I would create to appease this community is a blog or billboard type situation where people can contribute their solutions and coping mechanisms to deal with this death sentence that can make or break the value of life a person has. Thankfully my fathers optimism was easy to deal with and solve problems with ease and positivity.

The Coffee Table

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The coffee table brings a unity and same level to all aspects of your every day college household where individuals learn to make a house run smoothly when the parents arent around. Aspects about this application that make this possible are journal entries, scheduled calendars, household mail, and of course the chore list. When all people get their hands dirty in this metaphorical household program it should theoretically be a rewarding and fun experience.