Category: Noticing

future

how to translate what I’ve learnt/done in this studio into my resume and portfolio?

example?

soft skills: “dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty (exquisite corpse)”

hard skills: sound and video editing, content creation

last studio interests

hierarchy in web is based on how many connections it has to it – the more links going to it, the higher up it will be. Not based on traffic. (eg. Instagram. Views and likes value not equal to follower value)

“keep things to read for when it might come to matter” – when will a thing come to matter? Will I remember that I have this in there when the time comes?

 

 

 

interstitial

I have been ill.

It’s made me reflect on the amount of bacteria and micro-organisms on and in us. We talked about that at the beginning of the semester. My husband told me about interstitial fluids which is a fluid that fills in the empty spaces between the organs and cells. 16% of a humans body weight is this space filling fluid – for me, it’s about 10kg!

that means that if we took those fluids out, I have 10kg of emptiness in me? wow

pit

I think I have learnt:

it’s not about me, stories are not real, reality is not simple, everything is related, to notice the unnoticed, the best way to write without a story is a list, the less explication the better, listing becomes difficult, how to zoom out and see the connections, how to zoom in and see the connections, what is “alive”, life meshes, interconnectedness, to go through not across, the social media noise, illustrate through film and sound, to give up control of my work, the thrill of not knowing and making it work, that 1 minute can be really long, constraints bring structure, blogging is fun

I would like to learn:

how to notice more, how to document my noticing, how to translate what I’ve learnt into something material, how to change my way of thinking, how to apply what I’ve learnt into my other studies, how to use it when I graduate, who else thinks like this, how to use these concepts to work in media (will my bosses like it??), what I can do for my 3 films, how to map out my mesh, what was the beginning point of my mesh,

how to make this happen: try, fail, analyse, change and try again. I think the saying goes “practice makes perfect practice” The thing about what I have learnt in this studio is that nothing is concrete. So my attempts cannot be concrete either. they will keep changing and growing and morphing – uncontrollably perhaps, but that is the beauty of it, isn’t it?

A matter of concern

Instead of seeing myself as alive and at the center, I see things being alive; things being in the center of the mesh – and I am just one of the many lines that the thing relates to.

I’m thinking of exploring this with my dog, Pav as the center. What kind of a mesh does he create? Where am I in the mesh? What kind of effects do our joined meshes have? He is named after Ivan Pavlov the psychologist that discovered classical conditioning – is the dog conditioning me?

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Thinking about my previous post, what is a platform for a mesh media?

I’m not very technical, so I’m thinking of something quite primitive – print out pictures and put them like dewdrops on a web (if this was the Harry Potter universe, the print outs would be little videos and that would be amazing…)

Perhaps it would be a mobile of sorts, lots of string representing the relation lines, and lots of pictures depicting what each relation was. Or it could even just be a word written on a little tag stuck to the line.

Or, the lines could be made of sticks (?) so that the lines could extend out in all directions instead of down wards – gravity often interferes with art.

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circle – line – mesh

Across vs through – if we had a boundary around us, relations would go across our outer plane/surface. But we are not ‘circles’ so it goes through us, and likewise we go through other things as well instead.

I think of it as going through one of those aquarium tunnels and being able to see so many fish around us from different perspectives (side, bottom, top views, and moving in all different ways) – we are going through their ‘domain of entanglement’.

 

Compare that experience to looking at fish standing outside of the tank looking in from the top – simply viewing from across the edge of their habitat.

I think Ingold argues that we can’t look at and describe life from the outside looking in. It has to be described from the inside because that is where we are at; we are at the centre of the whole mesh of all our relations and we don’t stop moving or forming more ‘lines’.

So putting that to a media perspective, what’s an example of a work that goes through a particular issue(?) or thing instead of across it? Is there a form of media that can do this difficult task of illustrating or mapping out our complex and intricate entanglements?