MPM42a/b
New Media Production
4th year student’s senior PROJECT SYNOPSIS template document
Fall-Winter 2011-12
Due: 2nd class September 2011
Instructors: Jessica FIELD, Lila PINE, Priam GIVORD
Below are the features to include in your 1st Project Synopsis document. It is an indicative list (non-exhaustive) of the first things to put down when starting, we would like to see them all addressed and more if you see fit.
Please bear in mind that this is going to be part of the first mark given for 4th year.
__category of the work
Consisting of sound, sculpture, video.
__artistic and technological references
Steve Mann- wearable computers.
Nick Bostrom- Transhumanist Values.
The term “transhuman” denotes transitional beings, or moderately enhanced humans, whose capacities would be somewhere between those of un-augmented humans and full-blown posthumans. Our cognitive limitations may be confining us in a Platonic cave, where the best we can do is theorize about “shadows”, that is, representations that are sufficiently oversimplified to fit inside a human brain.
-Bostrom
Stelarc- biotechnology- Humans seek mastery of their own skin.
“The body now performs beyond the boundaries of its skin and beyond the local space that it occupies. It can project its physical presence elsewhere. So the notion of single agency is undermined, or at least made more problematic. The body becomes a nexus or a node of collaborating agents that are not simply separated or excluded because of the boundary of our skin, or of having to be in proximity. So we can experience remote bodies, and we can have these remote bodies invading, inhabiting and emanating from the architecture of our bodies, expressed by the movements and sounds prompted by remote agents.”
- Stelarc
__descriptive text of 10 lines mini, for example: what it is going to feel like experiencing your work? What is it about, what is its message?
The piece is a journey through space sound and time. Three sculptures will create a parallel between fiction and reality to allow us to question; what it is to be human? Requiring recognition and further exploration as the technological age of human manipulation progresses. I will be transforming the ‘concept albums’ music into a physical storyline, comparing themes of exploration to present day biotechnology to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. The final form depicting a futuristic state; the singularity between technology and the human form.
__materials and technologies required
Ply wood, pink insulation, winter-stone, high-gloss white paint x1 gallon. Glue, screws. 1” metal tubing x 20ft. Heat gun, drill, Dremel, skill saw, Pikoe Projector, IR sensors, LEDS, Arduino x 2, video camera x 1.
__Include potential fabrication difficulties that can happen during project making this year
There is always a possibility I will run into technical errors throughout this year. The last of the three sculptures will be projecting an eternal feed back loop along one of the galleries walls. The angle at which I position the camera and the projector will be tedious as it needs to be exact in order to achieve the wanted visual result. Lastly the designing of how the sculptures are going to look like and what emotions they convey will be a difficult task to visualize.
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