Playgiarism, and Detournement

After reading the two selected readings, I'm unsure how I feel about it. Playgerism continues to reinforce the cut-up method and once again stresses that little is original, much is the work of others turned around and decorated up a little.  Really it makes me feel most unimpressed with great artists, and a little irritated.

The question of exactly 'what is original' was covered in class also, little I'd say. Everything is a piece of something of the past.

What the true question is, is copying, playgirising, or whatever you want to call it, something that you feel correct/morally right doing?  Is it something that should be changed?  We all copy to some degree, or else we wouldn't learn anything.

Detournement is something a little different, remixing to spew your own thoughts and ideals at the same audience. It's a little more forceful and inclusive of what the artist has on their mind, or a message they want to send.

What is it that you want to send?

http://www.remixthebook.com/the-course/detournement
http://www.remixthebook.com/the-course/playgiarism

I am so tired.
My work on this last project has gone poorly, after this break I had ment to have a lot more done. Instead, all heck broke loose.

Work is a pain, and hard to balance.

Something about my art

 I think a while back we were supposed to post examples of our art.  And given that I lack good photos or examples of art that I'm really really proud of I didn't post anything/much.

Today I found some old examples of miniture figurines that I have painted in the past.

The following three are from '09.

These are all the same miniature, I finally finished this mini earlier this month. 

Yay! Maybe I'll work on the other one and post it here, but I doubt I have the time.

Literary Cut Ups

This seems to be part of the constant theme of remixing. Part of, what goes on and how the internet works.  The various articles were interesting reads to be sure.  To physically take something written, or an auditory sample,  mix it all up and make something new.  I feel like most often it'd make something very surreal and illogical.

A start for a word salad of images and pictures that it creates anew.  If we're mixing up topics perhaps of old works that'd be interesting. But mixing up words of works.. I don't know how that would tie in very well to what I have planned. 

Critique for Assignment 4

First:
Pretty good content, and defiantly  a great start. I really liked the list of good things and bad things. I would have enjoyed seeing more links to the words.  To accomplish what he wanted to do it was suggested that he use div tags with png transparent rectangles in it.

Also suggested to take the links he used to more interesting things. Like the best facebook pages, ect.

Second:
Text was all over the page with each new page. That was pleasant. The color scheme is good. However, given the nature of the project, having the links blend makes it not obvious to click.  It was suggested to give the link a background color instead of just having the text change color.  Useful.  Given that the piece was mostly about  time travel and decisions. Someone also suggested that having it all on one page, would fit like a puzzle together. Varying Style of text. Color, font, ect.

Third:
Cash Money! I like the message and vision. The color scheme is simple and fresh. And the links are obvious and simple. A semi-opaque rescript in the background. Formatting it like an ATM. "Do you agree" bits?

Mine:    ad-hoc.zzl.org
- Change background to something not plain/ more tech background.
- Android pic/ robots somewhere.
           - Robot head as the background.
           - Cellphone pic as background.
           - Have text read by microsoft sam. Via quicktime file, ect.
- Make them all pop up in new windows.
- Tying the colors to subject.
- Consistence person/tense.  I spoke neutral then first person.

Fifth:
 Different colors for each topic, some relating to each topic. ie. dark grey for negative, green for help our earth.

Sixth:
Graphics were useful in illustrating what is said. Many questions posed, vs constant speech.  There was a lack of overall consistent layout of  the entire site.

Radiolab: Talking to Machines and Idle update

Radiolab had many interesting points about robots. Both robots in the wires, metal, and physically moving aspect. Along with robots in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sort of way. Artificial intelligence is rather interesting, tricking humans to believe that they're speaking to real people however it's only a robot. A pre-programed response. Or, in the method of cleverbot, learning what you have said to it. Or millions of others, a hivemind of past conversations.

In some respects I feel that this is most dangerous because of the learning aspects. That someone can program a program that will learn and grow due to other humans talking to it.  It is also amusing, because a robot so far, has not been able to learn the subtle bits of speech like tone, sarcasm, and staying on topic.

An emotional Turing test an interesting method of holding something upside down to how long they might feel or associate with the object.  The test of getting someone to bond with something emotionally.




Update for website:

It looks terribly average. A missing amount of time put into this project is really my problem. However, while spending time on this, rushing, ect. I have ideas for my next project. Just forcing myself to sit down and work on something. To make something new and similar to what I have in mind. That's hard.


:/ Finished the website, more or less. I'm insure what to add to it to make it more interesting. I've never been that great at designing websites. I can make 'em just fine if you tell me what you want o.o

At least the colors are nice.

And while the domain name won't make sense, here is the site. http://ad-hoc.zzl.org

Assignment 4- Draft

Below is some of what I have written for our fourth assignment. It defiantly needs some fleshing out in places, but I think it's an okay start.  I'll be working on this more later. 

-What might future tech hold?

Games and mobile devices, we may not have cameras in our heads such as Vannevar bush might have predicted.  But we do have them with us constantly in smaller devices.  One device that can take a picture, record data via journal or document.  Not to mention possess the ability to send a letter without ink or stamp, communicate without a voice and give one access to a library of information anywhere.  Smartphones, tablet devices and web books. These devices we keep close to us to remain connected.  We have ways at our fingertips to access our friends, family, ect.  

But at what cost do we have this information? There are cars with Heads up Displays (HUDs) that will connect with your iPod and report back data.   Along with showing you facebook statuses on your windshield , twitter  updates , and becoming a general distraction.  These small devices can be concealed in classrooms to allow students to distract themselves and others from an otherwise dull lecture, or they can be used to enhance ones knowledge. Allowing a student to look up more information on the current subject.   Or used in a social setting, “I wonder how plants work..”  However while we’re looking up information, we’re not paying attention, or communicating with those around us. 

It’s already in the process of what happens when we decide speaking is too much.  Friends sitting in the same room, text one another, or even other friends.  We as humans don’t speak to other humans  in public places around us.  There’s tons of us, and yet we will ignore one another on  the bus, streets, subway, sidewalk… Why?

How is it that technology will not find its limit, where we will go to far.  Where we become blind to our own thoughts, feelings and emotions, then come to rely on others to tell us how we feel?

Will the future bring us this tech, stream less in our brains, or will it be a robot that does it for us? (Link to helping robot bbc)

As we may think

A response to the article here:At this link.

 VANNEVAR BUSH's article, "As We May Think" makes references to many many things from its time. technology advances that have happened, and already happened in our past and present.  One of his curiosities is the process of photography.   To instead have to deal with wet plates, to deal with dry plates. To use film as we know it today, was his future thought. I doubt he would have dreamed of even seeing cameras as we do now. Instead of cameras in our heads, we have them in our hands, pockets, or hats if you're clever.  We use no film, only electrical impulses that are remembered on a wafer thin chip. Our cameras can be as tiny as a blood cell, or for practical use as large as a cassette tape. 

Another ideal he's had is the thought of preserving human history. Of methods to catalogue our existence in the smallest state possible, and accessing it via connected links and routes.  

I suppose this is a reference before his time to hyperlinks and the internet as a vast network of information.