Post clean out

So I have been getting a lot of post info bundled up and never completed. With the constant call for my exegesis to be written it is time to keep a track of things. There are topics and research that didn't have the best place to publish so I have decided to fill it out here while it's still relevant.

Healing pool - Brian Knep

Around a month ago I found an interesting interactive art piece using projectors. A glowing pool is projected onto the ground which allows for viewers to walk over. When they do it creates ripples in the pool, breaking up the patterns of what was there. The patterns will eventually repair themselves but now are formed in a different way, causing for what has been done to be a permanent alteration in the artwork.  

http://www.blep.com/healingPool/

These "alterations" I find interesting because the more the people interact with this pool the more it changes into something else. Similar to a memory being interacted with or recalled, the more it alters from the original experience. I want to know if I can allow the user to interact with something they perceive as a memory and show it visually changing into something it originally was not.

Enter The Void - Gasper Noé

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Well, a week ago I watched a very unique film (do not read this paragraph if you plan to watch it). This film used POV camera techniques for the entire film, getting the perspective from a single individual. It plays through out of body experiences of a persons memory that are almost completely linear. All memories seem to be big parts of the person's life. This film I see as being someone's life flashing before their eyes, taking the biggest memories the person has. The reason I am typing about this is because I think it is similar to what is possible for my artefact but on a smaller scale. I want memories coming from a specific experience timeframe, most likely around the time someone would be recording using their camera. This film also allowed the audience to be a character while also watching themselves as that character, this may have also influenced my current ideas. 

Technology as Experience - John McCarthy and Peter Wright

Some old research from the book I read. First there is a brief cheesy statement on the aesthetic experience, followed by the threads of experience. These threads are useful to be conscious of when I create and discuss my project, they could be used for or against what I state and I need to be aware of that.

Aesthetic experience:

There is the self and the other. The other is the experience and is what is formed by the self from the self's perspective. The self requires for the other/event/object to respond back to the self to gather authorship. It gives the self unity and completeness. The relationship between one consciousness to the other is part of the aesthetic experience. How much is sent and received between the two will change the overall aesthetic quality.

There are four threads of experience, all of which are happening simultaneously:

Sensual threads

Sensory engagement can become fractured when the person is distanced with the subject at hand. If a product has been developed and sent on to someone else who wasn't the one who developed it then they have become part of a process without feeling the initial part. On the other side the person can become enclosed with the product and take away irrelevant senses when they are so absorbed with it. The way our senses interpret objects or people can change our experience of what is happening. Our interpretation is from our history, culture etc.

Emotional threads

How our emotions work in an experience is dependant on what is there and how that relates to the person. The person doesn't just create an emotion from themselves but rather it is created from how an object might respond to the person and how the person responds back. If the situation or object did not exist than the person would not have that same emotional response in the experience.

Composition threads

If the aesthetic part of the experience is to exist than there will be some effort from the person to think about it. They have to be thinking about what meaning it gives them, how they see this experienced framed, such as if an object gives them pleasure or just functional use.

Spatio-Temporal 

This I believe gives a bit of reasoning to my cinemagraphs. The experience itself can change what the time and space relationship is. The amount of time an experience goes for can feel like it lasts a very long time even if it only lasted a few seconds. A ball being thrown in a football game to score the winning touch down might seem to be forever in the air for the fans. The same can be thought for the feeling of space. What is happening in the experience can give the person an awareness of being crowded or restricted from a space. What I find interesting is how we can connect time as being one moment. Past, present and future all happening as one.

References

Brian Knep : Projects : Healing Pool. (n.d.). Retrieved May 12, 2013, from http://www.blep.com/healingPool/

Noé, G. (2010). Enter the Void. Drama, Fantasy.

McCarthy, John C. Technology As Experience. MIT Press, 2004.