• Actor-network theory – Latour – way of thinking about meshes, interconnectedness
• Internet is a network, has no command and control, no hierarchy
• Latour
  • ‘matters of concern’ – when somebody, through their practice, says this matters
  • Anthropocene – “relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.”
  • matter of concern – moral panics?
  • all these trails that have to come to for something to matter – safe schools only became a matter of concern when conservative politicians brought it to the fore
  • remindmebot – 15 years when this is dominant teaching in high schools
  • learning = trying to achieve a qualitative change in your understanding – not knowing more, it’s knowing differently 

matters of concern

• learned how to see things from other perspectives, from the perspective of things (non-anthropocentric)
• realised that story isn’t everything, that the formal elements of something may be much more interesting than the narrative these elements are telling
• learning to be open to new things/theories

crit feedback:

• ripple effect gives impression of looking through water
• colour across 4 panels – red, blue
• “searching” description of audio
• video – relation between images of human bodies, audio – relation between voice and non-human aspects

general feedback/notes:

• different analysis when viewing your work with others
• process – video influencing audio, audio influencing video? – order of creation
• limitations of our technology – inability to hear sound accurately/wholly through class speakers
• idea: extract small clip of Offenberg audio and make sounds with that
• confidence with ‘banal’ imagery noted
• contextualising practice – different opinion/interpretation from creator to viewer
• reassurance that what we are doing is interesting