Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Collecting Type
I had serious fun doing this experiment. We had to document the lettering we found in the world. I was going to take pictures of type that I found but I decided to keep all of the lettering I accumulated throughout the time I've been here in Brighton. I wanted to do a paper collage because I felt like making something with my hands and I wanted to be creative with it. It was really interesting because the lettering from the different places said alot about me and my personality....my project soon became a narrative of my life in Brighton thus far. Restaurants, maps, church, university, shopping and social events were top on my bulk of information. I used the backdrop of the map of Brighton as a symbol of my journey around the town. I love the collage so much that I stuck it up on my wall.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Towards an integrated architectural media space
Ok...so I have resorted to just highlighting statements that stood out to me in the readings that one can evoke some sort of discussion. I might make some comments here and there.
"Dynamic digital information is turning into construction material. Architectural surfaces are transformed into moving images. A new form of architectural space is emerging that is different from what we have known."
"What happens to the urban space when the architectural material becomes a media screen? Do we perceive the space by the content of the display? What about the activities that take place behind the building’s walls? To which degree can they influence or help inform the content of the broadcasted information or shape the moving images. These moving images may play a vital role in our perception of the space around us and our understanding of the public realm that embraces them. The combination of the physical architecture with the virtual information and representations displayed on the building facades, both embedded in the urban landscape in the city, can be seen as both an interface with, and the generator
of, diverse social interactions. Most of these screens, however, serve mainly commercial purposes, showing objects in different scale and proportions with no direct relation to the surrounding environment."
Examples that utilise media technology in various ways in the space:
Categories of potential application
Entertainment: The dreams and fantasies promoted on the LCD screens in Las Vegas.
Information and Business: The curved LED screen in Manhattan that displays financial news.
Art and Entertainment: A screen to display artwork done by the public
Recreation and entertainment: Recreation and entertainment: displays community-related images in a kind of open air gallery setting displaying the faces of one thousand Chicagoans one at a time. Made people aware of their surroundings.
Connectivity: People could communicate with others using The Telescope. It linked the two cities of London and New York.
Supporting regeneration strategies: Hhmm...not sure if i understand this concept fully. From what i gather: Build it and they will come. Basically set up a dynamic LED/LCD screen in an area to bring back people to that space and promote community activities.
Different modes of utilisation
- projecting images on building, highlighting a certain event like Remembrance day
- art projects that allow for the public to interact
Issues relevant to the new form of architectural media space
– Social Interactivity vs. Commercial Monologue
– Location and Mobility
designing for the highway is different than for the pedestrian.
– Obsolescence vs. Flexibility
– Physical and Virtual Flexibility
– Privacy Concerns and Light Pollution
"Dynamic digital information is turning into construction material. Architectural surfaces are transformed into moving images. A new form of architectural space is emerging that is different from what we have known."
"What happens to the urban space when the architectural material becomes a media screen? Do we perceive the space by the content of the display? What about the activities that take place behind the building’s walls? To which degree can they influence or help inform the content of the broadcasted information or shape the moving images. These moving images may play a vital role in our perception of the space around us and our understanding of the public realm that embraces them. The combination of the physical architecture with the virtual information and representations displayed on the building facades, both embedded in the urban landscape in the city, can be seen as both an interface with, and the generator
of, diverse social interactions. Most of these screens, however, serve mainly commercial purposes, showing objects in different scale and proportions with no direct relation to the surrounding environment."
Examples that utilise media technology in various ways in the space:
Categories of potential application
Entertainment: The dreams and fantasies promoted on the LCD screens in Las Vegas.
Information and Business: The curved LED screen in Manhattan that displays financial news.
Art and Entertainment: A screen to display artwork done by the public
Recreation and entertainment: Recreation and entertainment: displays community-related images in a kind of open air gallery setting displaying the faces of one thousand Chicagoans one at a time. Made people aware of their surroundings.
Connectivity: People could communicate with others using The Telescope. It linked the two cities of London and New York.
Supporting regeneration strategies: Hhmm...not sure if i understand this concept fully. From what i gather: Build it and they will come. Basically set up a dynamic LED/LCD screen in an area to bring back people to that space and promote community activities.
Different modes of utilisation
- projecting images on building, highlighting a certain event like Remembrance day
- art projects that allow for the public to interact
Issues relevant to the new form of architectural media space
– Social Interactivity vs. Commercial Monologue
– Location and Mobility
designing for the highway is different than for the pedestrian.
– Obsolescence vs. Flexibility
– Physical and Virtual Flexibility
– Privacy Concerns and Light Pollution
Content in Motion
Content in Motion minor is an example of Urban Screens Education.
"Rapid developments within the field of mobile technology are changing the media landscape....With these developments, users engage in dialogue with their environment through the means of servers, Bluetooth and RFID technology".
audio-info and locative storytelling.
Mobile project:
Students used GPS markers to direct the players around East Amsterdam. When you reach a particular destination, you were given a clue. When you completed all of the gps markers and gathered all the glues, the players had to come together and figure out what the message was. If they were correct with the answer, they were rewarded with wallpapers of the game. Answer had to be submitted via a website.
Monitor
"online attention economy, which can be measured in amount of visitors, Web statistics, social media activity and followers.
"users can influence their Web presence by specifically positioning themselves
online"
"theory and concepts of online identity, the attention economy, the social media landscape and privacy and control in a time when search engines decide who you are.
Monitor project: Students had to develop and basically market an online personality two weeks before their disappearance in a plane crash (Lost).
This raised ethical questions. They were basically lying online. Also they found difficulty in fully developing their characters in just the two-week time allotted.
Urban
"the key elements of critical design and the surveillance society were discussed"
Designing for a public space: moving imagery or graphic design? What type of designs suit where?
Project: The practical assignment for this module was to develop, execute and document a ‘guerilla intervention’, an unconventional mediation in public space, in which students combined the theoretical and practical knowledge of design for public space. The intervention should be aimed at a social issue and in line with the characteristics of Critical Design.
[[Guerrilla marketing is an advertising strategy in which low-cost unconventional means (graffiti, sticker bombing, flash mobs) are utilized, often in a localized fashion or large network of individual cells, to convey or promote a product or an idea. The term guerrilla marketing is easily traced to guerrilla warfare which utilizes atypical tactics to achieve a goal in a competitive and unforgiving environment.
The concept of guerrilla marketing was invented as an unconventional system of promotions that relies on time, energy and imagination rather than a big marketing budget. Typically, guerrilla marketing campaigns are unexpected and unconventional, potentially interactive, and consumers are targeted in unexpected places.
The objective of guerrilla marketing is to create a unique, engaging and thought-provoking concept to generate buzz, and consequently turn viral. The term was coined and defined by Jay Conrad Levinson in his book Guerrilla Marketing. The term has since entered the popular vocabulary and marketing textbooks.
Guerrilla marketing involves unusual approaches such as intercept encounters in public places, street giveaways of products, PR stunts, or any unconventional marketing intended to get maximum results from minimal resources. More innovative approaches to Guerrilla marketing now utilize mobile digital technologies to engage the consumer and create a memorable brand experience.]]
The group used posters that mimicked "lost dog posters"...but instead they were saying 'lost elderly care workers'..because no one wanted to apply for those types of jobs anymore. Therefore they decided to raise the awareness of the lack of these professionals to the public in a different way. It would be interesting to see where the put up the posters, who would most likely see them and what kind of effect they were hoping to make...if in the education sector or was it just a message for job seekers?
Transmedia Storytelling:
http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.html
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Basically one story told in different ways, using different mediums.
"Rapid developments within the field of mobile technology are changing the media landscape....With these developments, users engage in dialogue with their environment through the means of servers, Bluetooth and RFID technology".
audio-info and locative storytelling.
Mobile project:
Students used GPS markers to direct the players around East Amsterdam. When you reach a particular destination, you were given a clue. When you completed all of the gps markers and gathered all the glues, the players had to come together and figure out what the message was. If they were correct with the answer, they were rewarded with wallpapers of the game. Answer had to be submitted via a website.
Monitor
"online attention economy, which can be measured in amount of visitors, Web statistics, social media activity and followers.
"users can influence their Web presence by specifically positioning themselves
online"
"theory and concepts of online identity, the attention economy, the social media landscape and privacy and control in a time when search engines decide who you are.
Monitor project: Students had to develop and basically market an online personality two weeks before their disappearance in a plane crash (Lost).
This raised ethical questions. They were basically lying online. Also they found difficulty in fully developing their characters in just the two-week time allotted.
Urban
"the key elements of critical design and the surveillance society were discussed"
Designing for a public space: moving imagery or graphic design? What type of designs suit where?
Project: The practical assignment for this module was to develop, execute and document a ‘guerilla intervention’, an unconventional mediation in public space, in which students combined the theoretical and practical knowledge of design for public space. The intervention should be aimed at a social issue and in line with the characteristics of Critical Design.
[[Guerrilla marketing is an advertising strategy in which low-cost unconventional means (graffiti, sticker bombing, flash mobs) are utilized, often in a localized fashion or large network of individual cells, to convey or promote a product or an idea. The term guerrilla marketing is easily traced to guerrilla warfare which utilizes atypical tactics to achieve a goal in a competitive and unforgiving environment.
The concept of guerrilla marketing was invented as an unconventional system of promotions that relies on time, energy and imagination rather than a big marketing budget. Typically, guerrilla marketing campaigns are unexpected and unconventional, potentially interactive, and consumers are targeted in unexpected places.
The objective of guerrilla marketing is to create a unique, engaging and thought-provoking concept to generate buzz, and consequently turn viral. The term was coined and defined by Jay Conrad Levinson in his book Guerrilla Marketing. The term has since entered the popular vocabulary and marketing textbooks.
Guerrilla marketing involves unusual approaches such as intercept encounters in public places, street giveaways of products, PR stunts, or any unconventional marketing intended to get maximum results from minimal resources. More innovative approaches to Guerrilla marketing now utilize mobile digital technologies to engage the consumer and create a memorable brand experience.]]
The group used posters that mimicked "lost dog posters"...but instead they were saying 'lost elderly care workers'..because no one wanted to apply for those types of jobs anymore. Therefore they decided to raise the awareness of the lack of these professionals to the public in a different way. It would be interesting to see where the put up the posters, who would most likely see them and what kind of effect they were hoping to make...if in the education sector or was it just a message for job seekers?
Transmedia Storytelling:
http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.html
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Basically one story told in different ways, using different mediums.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Faces - A compilation of real faces
Ok..for some reason I can never upload my gifs that I make in Photoshop and I have to turn to my trusted and cool friend Tumblr to display my creations. This one is called Face and I got the inspiration from MJ's music video Black and White. This piece also pays homage to two of the experiments: Finding faces in objects. Ofcourse I wanted to findsome way to go against the obvious. Secondly we were asked to gather a cluster if natural things and observe them and note things about them that were different. I decided to go with faces and you can see the differences and similarities in the gif. I decided to speed up this gif so that it would not focus on one particular feature but you could sort of see how the faces create these really cool shapes and how they mould into each other after watching it for a while.
Anyways...check it out
http://mamamia1984.tumblr.com/private/17974474855/tumblr_lzps928aDr1qi7ph4
Anyways...check it out
http://mamamia1984.tumblr.com/private/17974474855/tumblr_lzps928aDr1qi7ph4
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Trip to the Library
For this experiment we were supposed to document 50 things about a trip to the library. I decided to use photography as my medium and to highlight certain things that one would not notice on any normal day to the library. We are so busy in our lives that most of us never really take the time to "stop and smell the roses". Therefore I took pictures of things that captured my attention once I slowed down enough to take in my surroundings....enjoy!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Faces
Let's talk about faces. In doing this experiment a couple of things stood out to me
1. I started to look for faces in everything. Then I started to think: What makes a face? I believe that society or humans in general have this concept of what a face is. Even in Startrek, when we think about the "aliens" they encountered, all of them had some sort of resemblance to human bodily characteristics. We have to have eyes to see, a nose to breathe, skin to feel and arms/legs/body to touch and move. Even in Lord Of The Rings when the trees developed eyes, a mouth, a nose and the branches became their limbs.
I think we assume that if we ever encountered a real alien that we can communicate verbally, by signals or by telepathy....but it would be something we can understand or that we can relate to.
Also, I realise that my concept of faces, even though bound by the societal concepts, also has a sense of freedom in that e.g. a face doesnt have to be round, or have a nose, or a mouth or even be human-like. I hope I'm making sense. Let's take Wall-E or Transformers for instance...the earlier drawings for the Transformers had their faces looking more humanoid than recently. Basically what I'm saying is that movies like these open our minds to new concepts ...things we wouldn't normally pick up on.
Anyways...check out my cool faces!
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