We were asked to prepare a presentation of our interests with one slide being comprised of images, one of text. The time we had to present was short, about 5 minutes. I initially listed all my interests under the topic of the post-digital; Computer art history, media archaeology, conditional design, pseudo digital artforms, “the poor image”, digital analogue balances, digital media theory, science fiction, computer animation, outsider art, generative design, ancient and modern. This is an area I had explored last year and love researching into. It has informed an important part of my position. I was between choosing the emerge strand and lazy machine. Both interest me, but I have a passion for research that led me to choose the publication strand.
We were in small groups when presenting. I got the feedback to find an area to focus on, either the image making methods looking into such theory as Hito Steyerl’s “In Defense of the Poor Image” (https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/) and digital imagery or look into more the narratives and context *** Ginnie’s book
Someone in my group also noticed the prominence of pattern and the nature of the gridded image.
https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/pierre-huyghe-uumwelt/
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/94/219462/curating-in-the-post-internet-age/
My main advice was to choose an area to focus on. I loved looking into text-based adventure games and how stories and narratives can be told in a virtual environment. I’m thinking if I want to take this further.
For next week our group was tasked with watching a documentary and designing a 15 minute presentation on it that. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000n18t/the-secret-history-of-writing-series-1-2-words-on-a-page
Cameron Aitken Graphic Design 