Web design and development, motion graphics, film and photography
You are asked to create and present an artwork or performance in public exhibition. Your project should explore a creative use of technology, be it digital, mechanical, biological or not yet invented. It should be a response to work and ideas which you have encountered during the module either in the presentation sessions, on the field trip, or in your own research. Continue reading “DAT501 – t3X: 3D Interactive Twitter Visualisation”
Urban API is a live project. The project will generate an open real-time intervention or map of the city. The project should map or challenge the city as complex cultural, political and social phenomenon or the project should hack the city in its functions as a whole or aspects of it.
The Project has TWO components:
Artists often start work without a clear idea of where they are going to end up. They react to what they have already made to expand their work, and they continue until it is finished. This methodology has a focus on the process.
The opposite, where you define where you want to be and then figure out how to get there, has a focus on the goal. This approach is more common in engineering. Continue reading “DAT501 – Creative Strategies: Process”
A manifesto is a statement of intent that defines the beliefs and aspirations of an individual or a group. Some of them spend more time defining what the author rejects than what they accept, as if to break free from an established order – the Futurist Manifesto is the original example. Continue reading “DAT501 – Creative Strategies: Personal Manifesto”
Authors: Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell
Published: 15 May 2013
“Dr. Lev Manovich is one the leading theorists of digital culture worldwide, and a pioneer in the application of data science for analysis of contemporary culture.”
(http://manovich.net/index.php/about)
One of “25 People Shaping the Future of Design” (complex.com)
“Lev Manovich used his first computer in 1977, after two years of writing programs on paper for a programming class in Moscow. His code was impeccable, but when he typed it in, the machine spat back a failure message. He’d never used a computer keyboard before, and had typed O’s instead of zeroes. Continue reading “DAT503 – On Broadway – Paper Review”
We were asked, in groups, to venture out to record our own sounds, voices and atmospheres and then assemble them into a creative soundscape. We were also encouraged to add raw data via Audacity software as a way of producing a sonification of data – to bring data out of the digital realm and into the physical via the medium of sound.
This is the completed piece: Continue reading “DAT503 – Reflexive Design Workshop 3 – Sound”
Definitions:
Psychogeography
“the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography)
Continue reading “DAT503 – Reflexive Design Workshop 1 – Psychogeography”
This workshop commenced with a standard Chinese Whispers activity.
“Chinese whispers is an internationally popular game, in which one person whispers a message to the ear of the next person through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly from that of the first player, usually with amusing or humorous effect. Reasons for changes include anxiousness or impatience, erroneous corrections, the difficult-to-understand mechanism of whispering, and that some players may deliberately alter what is being said to guarantee a changed message by the end of the line.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
Continue reading “DAT503 – Reflexive Design Workshop 2 – Collaborative Art”
“Whereas Picasso, Matisse, even Mondrian and Kandinsky concentrated on abstracting from perceived reality, Klee began with a point, extended it into a line and famously took it for a walk wherever it wished to go. The exact stage at which this abstract construct began to suggest an image was not premeditated.”
(https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/taking-klees-line-for-a-walk/167355.article) Continue reading “DAT503 – Reflexive Design Workshop 1 – Paul Klee”