Today’s class was really interesting and we made a lot of progress for assignment 4. Before today we had no idea what we wanted to do but after brainstorming and doing our word activities we got on a roll and had a lot of inspiration and ideas. I love that we’re not so restricted to specific questions/statements, compared to previous assignments, and instead have a lot more freedom for the direction we want to take. Activities included:
- Write down 20 words that relate to your assignment 3
- Cross out 10 that don’t really relate
- Link two of 10 words together to make 5 pairs
- Write 10 words relating to the new idea
Words:
- Trace
- Imprint
- Physical/non physical presence
- Private/public space
- Expression
- Natural element
- Diversity
- Purpose
- Usage
- Raw
New words:
- Constructed (a new reality)
- Isolated
- Connected
- Artificial
- Anonymous
- Personal
- Filtering (editing dissected, a thought out world that you create – not organic
- Projecting (who you come across as online)
- Submerged (immersed, nothing else exists)
- Constructed (a new reality online)
Overall goal:
- exploring physical and non-physical presence ONLINE
- exploring in a public yet private way
- privatising part of yourself through becoming anonymous (public space)
Challenges/limitations:
- capturing a non-physical space
Ideas:
- Representing yourself differently online
- Can the virtual self be your real self?