Filed under Autobotography …

Mar 20 2012
Approaches, Autobotography

Approach: “College Photo Journal”

It would be similar to Pictory, where the photos are displayed in a photoblog format, but with only student uploaded content.

There would be captions, photographer name, and year and major required with each photo upload. Uploading would either be based on a guest account system, or possibly using a plugin, like Photosmash.

Simple mock-up:

 

To keep things relevant to UMaine students and encourage submissions, topics will be suggested that directly pertain to issues on campus. Examples could include:

  • the recent ban on smoking
  • campus parking
  • the recent bomb threat

It would be great to see a wide range of creativity in submissions, and the only way to do this is to suggest topics that UMaine students actually care about.

Mar 20 2012
Autobotography, Intents

Intent: “College Photo Journal”

The University website has many nice photos of campus life, however, they don’t always truly reflect the experience of living on campus in UMaine. I’d like to create a photo journal documenting what it’s like to live on campus. Going to class, dining halls, dorm life . . . everything. It would be a way to give insight into what it’s like to live and study at UMaine. It could perhaps be major specific, as the life of a New Media student may differ from that of an Engineer student.

It would also be interesting to add an accompanying audio component.

Feb 16 2012
Autobotography, Responses

Response: Cyborg Manifesto

“Cyborg Manifesto”

Honestly, I wanted to understand and get something from this reading, but nearly every bit of it went way over my head. However; I do have a bit to comment on.

“Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.” I’m not sure where I originally heard this, but I definitely recognize it from somewhere, possibly another New Media course. It’s a striking quote, and I believe it’s relevant to something we often discuss in class. When technology is developed that augments one of our senses, something (one of our other senses, perhaps) is degraded as a result. I think this connects to the aforementioned quote from the Cyborg Manifesto in the way that the machines are becoming “disturbingly lively,” while inversely, we are becoming “frighteningly inert.”

Feb 10 2012
Autobotography

2-9-2012 NMD206 Notes

– personal <=> political

– the world is in a specific political structure

– autobiography about yourself and the culture around you

Feb 09 2012
Autobotography, Responses

Modern Living Animations

These animations are an interactive, animated self portrait for Han Hoogerbrugge. At first glance, many of these animations were nonsense to me. However, some make a little sense. For example, the one we watched in class of the man in the water, it has a sadistic quality to it, because it becomes a sort of game to keep him under water. You don’t quite realize that until you’ve been doing it awhile.

 

Another that caught my eye was one called “Angel.” The user controls a cross, which makes a man move around like a puppet. Which, in a way, could be a way to express that some people are “puppets” strung along by religious figures, I suppose.