Virtual Environments - Networks, Artifice and The Virtual - Presentation - Weekly Report - Week 2

This week we have obtained a copy of Jean Baudrillard's "The Spirit of Terrorism" as well as looked at the Skype website. Over the next week we will read the book, making notes on any bits relating to networking, systems ot technology be them digital or physical. This should hopefully help us deepen and increase the quality of the arguements we can then put forward in our presenation, as well as helping us create an angle to attack the information we collect from.

Intermediate Studio - Perminant Flux - Initial Creative Brief

My Aim
The aim of the project is to research, understand and respond in the form of a piece of artwork or various experiments based on the subject of “Permanent Flux” or “Forever Changing.”

I must decide upon an area to focus my attentions on
I must then research that area
I must start sketching ideas
I must have a fully developed idea on a A2 presentation sheet for the mid term review
I must then take on board the criticism and produce a storyboard
I then must produce a final piece or series of experiments relating to my research, understanding and ideas


My Area
The area I am going to look into in relation to the subject of permanent flux is the ways in which images renew and diteriate both digitally and physically when unprovoked and provoked. I then hope to gain an understanding of time in relation to how we perceive and view these images.

Areas of technology I will look into are:
Television/Monitors
Camera Film
CD’s
DVD’s
Hard Disks
Floppy Disks
VHS


Stage 1
I now must start looking into artists which have investigated this area and try to understand the meanings and understandings their work presents. I hope from this to have an idea of a style I then want to evolve and make my own, be it in a final piece of series of experiments.

Virtual Environments - Networks, Artifice and The Virtual - Presentation - Weekly Report - Week 1

Just been given breif for our second term presentations, we must produce, in pairs, a presentation, supporting peice of work, printed copy of spoken text, a weekly report and written bibleography.

Our subject is "Skype" and our quote is "This architectural graphism is the embodiment of a system that is no longer competitive, but digital and countable, and form which competition has disappeared in favour of networks and monopoly." (Jean Caudrillad, The Spirit of Terrorism (...on the destruction of the Twin Towers) 2002.

To properly and fully research this area we need to break the quote up into individual areas:

1. Skype
2. Architectural Graphism
3. Competitive and Uncompetitive Digital Countable Systems
4. The Disappearence of Competition
5. The favour for Newtorks and Monoploy instead

The above areas will be where we will start and hopefully this should give us a good basis to create a presentation and peice of artwork from.