The Friedman readings have aligned perfectly with what I've been working on for the fourth project. I liked how during class Todd separated film/video into architecture and interface - and along with the split screens and multiple framings, in my next project I will try to address these. I am still trying to think of ways to address the 'depth' issue and connection with the architecture.
I think "Televisions" dealt with medium specificity indirectly (using the lcd tv as a monitor for my digital camera and then recording the results of aiming the camera at the tv) , though I didn't go into the project with that on my mind - I just wanted to work with video feedback for the fun of it and see if I could do anything with it once I amassed a collection of 'neat' visuals.
This time around I am doing this project for the fun of it too, but also with a specific goal in mind of incorporating medium specificity and convergence. The idea of split and multiple screens has always been a fascination of mine because of the simultaneous events/actions/thoughts that occur in our lives overall.
I love how we think that we are multi-tasking, but in reality, we are just sequencing our actions almost in a frame by frame way so that we aren't actually multi-tasking, we're just doing an action, stopping that action, doing another action, and just doing this back and forth. One could argue the person who is walking and texting is indeed multi-tasking, but I would argue that the guy is texting while leaning forward (therefore his legs automatically move so he won't fall).
So, one of my side intentions for this fourth project won't be to show the jerkiness of multitasking (though that would be an interesting video and perhaps a future project and I think "Noah" dealt with that somewhat), my intention will be to show that whether we can or can't multitask is irrelevant because the world and life is one GIANT MFing multitask (in a positive way, of course).
"One could argue the person who is walking and texting is indeed multi-tasking, but I would argue that the guy is texting while leaning forward" -- Blog One-Liner of the Year goes to Jeff! Seriously though, I L'edOL.
ReplyDeleteI think there'd be something to the idea of showing the "jerkines of multitasking" (with various ideas of "jerk" in play).
Overall, I think the idea of applying the video feedback is very promising. It might be worth combining that feedback with the screen surface (the image changes drastically depending on the angle and proximity to the screen).
Another idea that's been explored is that the digital has a different concept of architecture. One way to iterate these differences might be to consider two imaginary concepts:
What would it be like to move through an interface like you move through a building or cityscape?
What would it be like to move through architectural structures like we do an interface?