weekly update
posted 11/26
Missed a few weeks, but catching up now…
thinking about: Working on two more Social Interacting Tools – one trains you to employ more body contact in your interactions (your ability to hear the world diminishes as body contact is lost), the other is an anti-daydreaming device that periodically reminds you to pay attention while engaged in conversation.
I keep swinging from the excited rush of intensity and challenge to the depressing depths of frustrated confusion and doubt. I am amazed at my ability to spend hours in deep contemplation over a single design decision, only to emerge with such a complex set of relations built around the choice in my head that any movement in any direction seems utterly inconceivable.
My professor has challenged me to embark on a large scale project, but I can barely make a one minute video without getting all twisted up. So this should be interesting. And maybe I need to just straight up fail in a big way so I get over it already.
I am looking forward to Thanksgiving in Boston to have a little change of environment and some space and time to reground and reorient.
“So reality is what I talk about with a third party. It can only be defined as a product of negotiation…Imagination seems like a prosthesis affixed to the real so as to produce more intercourse between interlocutors. So the goal of art is to reduce the mechanical share in us. Its aim is to destroy any a priori agreement about what is perceived.” (Bourriard)
reading: Power/Knowledge (Foucault), Purity and Danger (Douglas), Relational Aesthetics (Bourriaud), The Language of New Media (Manovich)