Hello Research Buddies,
First of all I think you should all take a bit of time to listen to Radio Labs episode on Emergence. It is a fine piece of radio broadcasting and I believe will be related to my thesis at least in some form.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/08/14
I began thinking that I would be making an interactive animation and that my thesis would be related to the role of interactive storytelling online. However, that idea has shifted gears, at least to some degree.
Being a visual creator of media I still want to make an interactive animation but I have realized that the piece itself may be a metaphorical piece that through its design and the visual stories it portrays represents concepts being explored in the theories. My recent exposure to concepts of Memetic Theory and Emergence are having a direct effect on my ideas. How is still hard for me to pin down.
The idea for the animation is to have a interactive whole, a sort of abstracted world that can be zoomed into in order to portray short moments of individuals stories, some profound, some mundane, when zoomed out the work is again a cohesive whole. I am playing with the idea of individual lives, living out their stories and the massive structure created by the combination of the individual.
I see the internet as both a tool and a metaphor for the connection of humanity. For this reason I want this to be an interactive animation that can be put online. Therefore it becomes both an artifact of the concepts explored and a direct participating piece of the interactive whole.
I hope that all makes some sense. I have been making an animated piece for another class I am in. Please feel free to look at the blog I have created for that class. It is related to ideas I have for my thesis but is more of a stream of conscious blog at the moment.
Running Through the Zen Garden
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It reminds me of Goodgle earth! You know how you can zoom out on a satelite image of a place and it looks green and lush and tropical, but when you zoom in, you see the buildings and roads and suddenly, it is no longer tropical, but urban. I don't know, did I just stretch for that?
Dani
I like the comparison with Google Earth. And it also in some ways reminds me of the discourse linking narcissism and online social networking and the corresponding near constant documentation of their own lives by “digital natives.” Clearly the goal is not simply self-promotion. There is an element of shared identity in it all just like your zoom in to moments of individual stories.
Ugh, there's these designers that work in a similar micro and macro work, and I am spacing on their name! I'm going to keep looking because I think they do some really interesting things with narrative and revealing bits around zooming and moving through spaces.
I finally found the website I was thinking of: http://www.billyharveymusic.com/
And the designer's website has a similar micro/macro approach:
http://sofake.com/
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