weekly update: and back
posted 01/09
break time overlooking empty rosarito beach in mexico (photos by jeff lieberman)
The winter quarter started this past week with high velocity as expected. I spent the break actually trying to take a break, hoping to come at this stuff with a slightly clearer head and a fresh feeling. So now I’m here and I’m excited for this quarter.
The three weeks of break were spent remembering and expanding on the experience of living with someone you have a strong connection with…the intimacy, the resonance, the dissonance, the feeling of creating something new, and the not knowing exactly what it is or might be.
It got me thinking about other kinds of connections that exist already, and the possibility for creating new kinds. Could the idea of a bond be pushed further, so that is it no longer two individual organisms, but two sharing one life, becoming some kind of superorganism? Could the tasks of living a single life be split between two people, and how could technology help with the split and the syncing?
Another experience I had over break was eating dinner in complete darkness at a restaurant called Opaque. It was really interesting how much the process of eating a meal is changed by a lack of vision. Suddenly, the other senses became intensely amplified…each smell, sound, texture, taste was a new experience to be perceived and savored. I wonder if two people could split the senses for one, what would happen to each person’s conception of the world around them, and what is necessary to communicate the sensory information between them?
It’s all very undefined still but I think a place to begin experimenting and hopefully something will begin to take shape…
In addition to my studio/indep study work, I’m also taking a psych seminar called metacognition, media arts theory seminar, and data and media arts.
reading: Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Ehrenreich), Metacognition (Dunlosky/Metcalf).